The Top Hotel & Resort News From May

May has been a pretty good month for hotels and resorts. New brands were announced, like Hyatt's new Caption by Hyatt brand and ELLE Magazine's new foray into hospitality. The month of May also brough new predictions on the hospitality industry's recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as a conclusion into the investigation of three deaths at the Sandals Emerald Bay Resort in The Bahamas. Check out the month's biggest hotel and resort news with this slideshow. Click the link provided in each slide to read the full story.

At the beginning of May, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts published its 2022 Environmental, Social and Governance Report to show everyone its sustainability practices and its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Banyan Tree Group's wellness-centric Veya brand will welcome a new resort in Bacalar, Mexico in 2025. The Banyan Tree Veya Bacalar will offer all villas and a plethora of wellness activities and practices.

Hyatt is grouping its luxury all-inclusive resort brands together to create a new collection, the Inclusive Collection. Brands within this collection include Hyatt Ziva and Zilara, Secrets Resorts & Spas, Dreams Resorts & Spas and more.

Hammock Cove Antigua, an Elite Island Resort, has now joined Virtuoso's network of over 2,200 luxury travel companies and suppliers, offering greater connections with travel advisors and their luxury clientele.

Kimpton Hotels is taking the term "pet-friendly" to the max, now offering dog walking services to all its guests and their furry companions with a new partnership with Wag!, a mobile service that connects dog owners with dog walkers and sitters.

The Hilton Tulum Riviera Maya All-Inclusive Resort opened this month on May 12. The property is located in the same complex as the Conrad Tulum and offers 735 rooms and 59 suites.

ALG announced earlier in May that its Secrets Resorts & Spas brand will be coming to Isla Mujeres in Mexico this December. The Secrets Impression Isla Mujeres will feature 125 suites, personalized butler services and much more.

On May 17, MGM Resorts and Blackstone Capital, the parent company of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, finalized the deal for the resort for $1.625 billion, adding the upscale resort to MGM Resorts' portfolio.

The All-Inclusive by Marriott Bonvoy portfolio is getting bigger later this year following the announcement that the Royalton Splash Riviera Cancun will be Marriott's latest all-inclusive acquisition.

In other Marriott news, the first Ritz-Carlton Reserve in the Middle East was announced in May. Nujuma, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, will be located off the coast of Saudi Arabia and will open in 2023. The resort will be the sixth Ritz-Carlton Reserve-branded property in the world.

Hyatt announced the debut of its newest lifestyle brand, Caption by Hyatt, will debut this summer with the opening of the Caption by Hyatt Beale Street Memphis. The new lifestyle brand will have a community-centric focus.

PwC US is predicting a good rise in revenue and hotel occupancy for hotels in the U.S. this year, anticipating 2022 to surpass pre-pandemic levels.

ELLE Magazine is jumping into the hospitality market with two new boutique brands, Maison ELLE and ELLE Hotel. The first Maison ELLE debuts in Paris later this year, with more in Europe and China in the coming years.

The mystery surrounding the deaths of three guests and hospitalization of a fourth at the Sandals Emerald Bay in The Bahamas has been solved. Carbon monoxide poisoning was the cause, and Sandals has responded by installing CO detectors throughout the property and others across the Caribbean.

Club Med's latest resort in Europe, the Club Med Magna Marbella in Marbella, Spain opened to guests on May 20. The 35-acre property is a four-star resort featuring views of the Sierra Blanca mountains and the Mediterranean Sea. It's the first new Club Med property in Spain in twenty years.