Iberostar Hotels & Resorts launched a new website totally devoted to the Grand Collection, a portfolio of the brand’s luxury five-star properties. The new site features the nine Grand Collection properties around the world and a section for easier booking customization.

Small Luxury Hotels of the World, which added 12 new members to its collection in May, announced continued growth since the first quarter of 2012, including a 60 percent increase in new members compared with this time last year, as well as 13 new properties to join the collection from April to June 2012.

W Hotels Worldwide today announced it has signed an agreement with Terranum Hotels to debut a new W Hotel in Bogota, Colombia. Slated to open in 2014, W Bogota will be a part of a larger mixed-use development, with premium office space and high-end retail.

The El Secreto boutique resort in Belize is set to officially open Oct. 1, the company has announced. The property on Belize’s Ambergris Caye is 11 miles north of San Pedro Town. It consists of 13 freestanding thatched-roof villas on the hotel’s private beachfront enclave.

Plans for the construction of a Park Hyatt St. Kitts on the island’s Southeast Peninsula will result in economic benefits to the people of the twin-island federation. Prime Minister Denzil L. Douglas said this area represents a unique and powerful territorial and psychological link between Nevis and St. Kitts.