Giovanni Angelini: Is the One-Stop-Shop Booking Platform Viable?
Is the 'one-stop-shop' or 'door-to-door' booking platform for travelers a practical reality or a logistic nightmare in this highly specialized/people industry?.
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Leadership Change at the Helm of Peninsula Hotels
In the span of a few months, the Chief Operating Officer, Peter Borer, and the Chief Executive Officer, Clement Kwok, will retire, passing their respective batons to Gareth Roberts and Benjamin Vuchot…
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A HUGE £200m water park with a 500-room hotel and bowling alley has moved one step closer to opening in the UK. Great Wolf Resorts (GWR), which has sites in the US and Canada, is now prepping to open Great Wolf Lodge in Chesterton, near Bicester…
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What are Spain's controversial new rules for registering hotel guests?
Hoteliers and travel agencies have warned that controversial new hotel registration rules in Spain are not only difficult to implement but will make holidays more expensive for travellers and could hurt the tourism sector's competitiveness abroad…
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Young leaders don’t always act so young
On the stage on Day One of the HICAP Australia, New Zealand conference (HICAP ANZ) in Sydney this week, CBRE Asia Pacific’s Nick Hill showed wisdom beyond his years when he suggested while he has started his career going through a very challenging…
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Why Recruiting Tech Talent in Hospitality Is a Challenging Task
As technology is becoming gradually more important in hospitality, the industry is facing a significant challenge: a shortage of skilled IT professionals capable of navigating the complexities of modern day technology. Developing IT talent has…
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7 design trends to convert travelers on your website
Visiting your hotel’s website has become an almost mandatory part of a traveler’s booking process. It can be the deciding factor.
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If you’d ask an advanced AI model to come up with the ideal CEO for Four Seasons, the luxury hospitality group owned by Bill Gates that operates 130 hotels in 47 countries, and offers “experiential offerings” on yachts, jets, and the world’s most…
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Jim Alderman joins Airbnb’s real estate team
Jim Alderman, a 35-year industry veteran and former Radisson Hotel Group Americas CEO, has joined Airbnb‘s real estate team as head of residential development, where he will work with Jesse Stein, global head of real estate…
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Navigating Cyber Threats in Hospitality: Key Takeaways from HITEC 2024
During HITEC 2024, industry leaders discussed the vulnerabilities hotels face from social engineering, complacency in cybersecurity investment, and the dual-edged nature of AI, urging CTOs to adopt a proactive stance…
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ARTIC launches Hospitality Excellence Programme
Al Rayyan Tourism and Investment Company (ARTIC) has launched the ARTIC Hospitality Excellence Programme, in collaboration with its sister company, Al Rayyan Investment in Education and Sports (ARIES), to offer internship opportunities across the…
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Hotels are full of oddities: some gross, some space-age. Never before, however, have we come across a bit of hospitality secrecy quite so salacious as this. Revealed on the always-intriguing r/AskReddit forums, a hotel insider has shared a trick of…
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The last time we did our CEO pay study it was pre-Covid, and things were looking very bright. Then the bottom fell out. Now in a post-Covid environment, it’s interesting to see some companies experiencing total recovery, while others have faced…
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The 3 types and the implementation of training and development
Employee training and development is very crucial in employee performance and customer satisfaction. In a previous article, I described the connection of Training & Development to Employee Motivation and Customer Loyalty…
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Unpacking the Shift in Restaurant Tech Spending
Industry experts weigh in on why they think restaurant IT budgets are increasing and how that tech spend will affect the industry.
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IIHM INSTITUTE OF HOSPITALITY SKILLS (IIHS) OPENS LARGEST TRAINING CENTRE IN UDAIPUR
IIHM Institute of Hospitality Skills (IIHS), India's largest training centre affiliated with the Tourism and Hospitality Skill Council (THSC), proudly announces the grand opening of its state-of-the-art facility in Udaipur today…
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Choice Hotels Promotes Sireesha Kunduri to Chief of Product Engineering
Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH), one of the world's largest lodging franchisors and a leader in hospitality technology, announced today that it has promoted Sireesha Kunduri to Chief of Product Engineering…
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Hospitality Technology PR Specialist Abode Worldwide Makes Three Key Hires
Abode Worldwide, a specialist public relations agency in the hospitality and living sectors, has announced three key hires as it seeks to execute its ambitious growth plan.
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