InterContinental Hotels Group has sought further growth in Russia and the CIS with the signing of three hotels in the region: Holiday Inn Express Naberezhnye-Chelny, Holiday Inn Express Samara and Staybridge Suite Baku.

The Ritz-Carlton, Aruba, the hotel company's newest Caribbean resort, opens Nov. 22 on the island's Palm Beach, its seventh in the Caribbean and Mexico region and its first since the debut of Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, in Puerto Rico in December 2012.

Sandals Resorts International has today applauded the government of Barbados following the announcement of a deal which will result in opening of two resorts in the country.

IHG has announced the groundbreaking on a 20-story, 225-room InterContinental hotel located in the Piantini neighborhood of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. Real Hotels & Resorts, a hotel division of Salvadorian-based Grupo Poma, will own the new development.