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For many hotels, the line between “distribution” and “marketing” has always been quite blurry.
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Google recently announced yet another fundamental change to their paid search advertising product - the discontinuation of Expanded Text Ads.
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"Don't worry, it'll be a walk in the park," says Ali, the senior climbing instructor at Alila Jabal Akhdar, a luxury hotel in the mountains of Oman.
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“How optimistic are you about business performance over the next 12 months?” - Hoteliers’ answers to this new question, introduced in our ongoing Hotelier PULSE survey and published for the first time in the 18th Edition of the Hotelier PULSE…
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Accor has unveiled a dual-branded Ibis and Ibis Budget property located just under three miles from Heathrow Terminal 5.
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Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts President/CEO John Davison has informed the company’s board of directors that he intends to retire in 2022. He will continue to lead the company until the selection and onboarding of a new CEO is completed next year…
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Almost two decades since Concorde retired, interest around supersonic travel has been picking up pace, and several super-fast planes are under development…
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As the travel and hospitality world turns the page on a period of uncertainty, we begin a new chapter in the industry centered around recovery, rebuilding, and renewed efforts towards revenue optimization…
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Online travel agencies (OTAs) have dramatically changed the game when it comes to getting the word out about your property and inventory, and even booking rooms…
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During what has been the most extensive refurbishment in its history, we caught up with Aaron Kaupp to find out more about the transformation of The Carlton Tower Jumeirah and how lockdown was the perfect timing for the project…
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We talked with Sevda Oztetik about the trend for sustainable tourism and its implementation in hospitality…
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The novel coronavirus pandemic, which continues to impact our lives, society, and economy in less than predictable waves, does influence hotel asset classes and geographic markets in different ways…
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No matter how convenient it is to book rooms, how fast the contactless check-in system is, or how clean your hotel is, if you are not protected from automated attacks, you are putting your hotel and your guests at risk…
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As hotel operations shift to accommodate smaller labor pools and guests at varying comfort levels, hotel restaurants, bars and other food-and-beverage outlets have followed suit.
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It’s been said that perception is reality. Under that maxim, hoteliers are feeling vexed by the labor shortage.
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The adults-only Bucuti & Tara Beach Resort on Aruba's Eagle Beach, which since 2018 has been certified as a carbon-neutral hotel, has added what it said was the world's first carbon offset concierge to its staff…
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There's no doubt, hotels today still rely heavily on occupancy to drive non-room-related revenue at their properties…
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The COVID-19 Delta variant’s emergence and spread has hampered plans for group and business travel this fall and winter, spurring CBRE Hotels Research to temper its expectations in September for Q4 2021 U.S. lodging performance on a national basis…
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