Image: Seawalls in Taro town. Damage occurred to the eastern parts of the new seawalls -9-11-2011 by Anawat Suppasri, Nobuo Shuto, Fumihiko Imamura, Shunichi Koshimura, Erick Mas, Ahmet Cevdet Yalciner: 'Lessons Learned from the 2011 Great East Japan Tsunami: Performance of Tsunami Countermeasures, Coastal Buildings, and Tsunami Evacuation in Japan', Pure and Applied Geophysics, 170, 6-8, (2013), pp. 993–1018, DOI:10.1007/s00024-012-0511-7, online published on 7 July 2012, here: p. 999, Figure 7 ('Seawalls in Taro town. Damage occurred to the eastern parts of the new seawalls (9/11/2011)'), Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0). via wikimedia, by
Getaria Town Council approved a Fiscal Ordinance establishing a Tourist Stay Tax, with six votes from EH Bildu in favor and five abstentions from EAJ. This ordinance formalizes a tax applied to stays in accommodations within the town.
The Tourist Stay Tax will take effect on January 1, 2027. Accommodation providers in Getaria will be notified of the new tax, which is designed to generate revenue to support local tourism and community projects along the Euskadi coast.
Palm Beach County commissioners approved a 400-room, 18-story hotel project by Related Ross beside the County Convention Center. The lease spans 97 years with annual payments exceeding $1.1 million initially.
Choice Hotels International opened six new hotels in 2026, expanding its upscale portfolio to more than 300 properties in the US. The new locations span Colorado, Florida, Vermont, and Wisconsin under Cambria Hotels and Ascend Collection brands.
GIC has purchased 16 Marriott-operated hotels in Japan for around $800 million. Marriott will continue to operate these Four Points Flex by Sheraton properties post-acquisition.
