Loyalty programs prove their value: CBRE
Loyalty fees increased by 4.4% in 2024, outpacing 2.7% revenue growth, but at just $5.46 per occupied room or 1.6% of total revenues…
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Can Forbes Travel Guide solve the commissions conundrum?
Technology giveth and technology taketh away. For travel advisors, the technology provided by third-party companies that consolidate hotel commission payments has moved increasingly toward the "taketh" side over the years…
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More details have emerged about possible non-gaming facilities by third-party private investors that might go near the under-development MGM Osaka, Japan’s first and so far only integrated resort (IR) with casino…
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Ennismore Keeps Design In-House as It Opens 20 New Hotels in 2025
In only 13 years, Ennismore has grown from a single property to more than 170 hotels, and it has taken an unusual approach: keeping core operations like restaurant concepts, interior design, and digital marketing under its own roof rather than…
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How Machine Learning Can Help Hotels Via Segmentation Recommendations
Into 2025, this is going to be the ‘year of data’ wherein hotels now have the tools to develop real-time data flows and structured data warehouses to conduct proper AI-driven analyses. Lucrative and alluring in theory; the reality here still far…
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Change is blowing through the professional services sector
Today a global revolution is taking place, heralding a new information age, comparable to the introduction of the printing press, electricity, cars, trains and the internet. Its potential to revolutionize our world in ways previously unimaginable is…
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Wimmer Communities and Crescent Hotels & Resorts have expanded their decades-long partnership with the opening of a new dual-branded property, known as The Marriott Center located within the Poplar Creek Town Center in Brookfield, Wisconsin…
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Growing synergies between hotels and casinos
Major hotel brands are establishing loyalty and distribution partnerships with casino operators. Jon Lucas, chief operating officer, Hard Rock International, explained: “Database in our world is king. It's so critical to our success and these…
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