The 160-room Aloft Miami-Brickell has opened its doors in downtown Miami, offering guests the latest technology and a buzzing, social atmosphere. It is the second Aloft hotel to open in the Miami metropolitan area following the opening of Aloft Miami Doral in March.

Choice Hotels Europe revealed it has opened nine European properties so far in 2013 in the UK and France with a further eight scheduled to open in Q3 in the UK, France, Germany and the Czech Republic.