European Hotel Investment Market 2020: surprisingly optimistic results
February 2021 – today, nearly a year into our days of forced telecommuting and videoconferencing, the words ‘impact of COVID-19’ continue to ring in our ears…
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Singapore opens quarantine-free hotel and conference centre
Singapore has opened a purpose-built “bubble” facility, dubbed Connect@Changi, to support Covid-safe meetings between foreign business travellers and Singapore residents. Located five minutes from Changi Airport, the venue will initially launch…
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Tiered Marketing Approach To Hotel Recovery
Hotel markets across the US are behaving differently. They are rebounding at a different pace. Even hotels within the same market are not seeing the same patterns.
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Hilton Walloped by $720 Million 2020 Loss That Pushes Hotel Giant to Permanent Cost Cuts
The world’s second largest hotel company stalled at the end of 2020 in its pandemic recovery, but company leaders say they used the crisis as an opportunity to position the business for higher earnings and lower labor costs in the future…
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Choice Hotels Sees Budget Brands Deliver 2020 Rarity: Profitability
A hotel portfolio of properties largely in drive-to settings and outside major urban centers enabled Choice Hotels to clinch a profitable year despite a global pandemic that decimated travel demand.
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Hoteliers: Now is the Time to Take Cues from the Airlines
Forced to adapt at any even quicker pace than hotels, airlines have already begun to plan for the post-pandemic world. Here's what hoteliers can learn from them.
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Accor partners with Microsoft for hybrid meeting concept
Accor has collaborated with Microsoft to launch a new hybrid meetings concept powered by Microsoft Teams technology.
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Is hospitality ready to service the digitally savvy travel consumer?
Today’s typical online travel consumer – your past, current and future hotel guest - is exposed to more than 250,000 digital micro-moments a year, from social media interactions to messaging to quick reads of the headlines on their smartphones…
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10 new creative room types to boost revenue
Hotel marketing has always been a blend of creativity and data. There’s equal parts of data-driven revenue management, copywriting and consumer psychology…
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The Post-Pandemic Hotel Experience from the Experience Expert
As COVID-19 continues to upend travel and rewrite daily habits, hotels must nevertheless continue to differentiate their products in order to better appeal to guests in the next normal and build revenues…
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SB Architects Forecasts Trends Set to Shape the Future of Architecture
SB Architects, an award-winning international architecture firm focusing on designing soulful and inspiring destinations across hospitality, residential and mixed-use, has released the top trends they anticipate defining 2021 and beyond…
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UK in talks to introduce vaccine passports for international travel
The UK is getting closer to confirming the use of vaccine passports for international travel despite previously ruling out the adoption of such technology.
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RobertDouglas: Lenders Express Optimism, Anticipate Increase in Hotel Lending Volumes and Values
RobertDouglas conducted its eighth annual lender survey to measure the current state of financing market conditions and to ascertain critical future expectations through the lens of the specialist hospitality lending community…
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How to prepare your hotel for summer staycations
Becoming increasingly apparent is the unlikelihood of summer holidays abroad. With dreams of boarding planes and jetting away into the sunshine essentially dashed, all any of us can do is start thinking about staycations…
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U.S. Hotel Jobs Recovery Stalls, Unemployment Rises
The U.S. hotel sector’s unemployment rate is once again on the rise, as experts point to a slower-than-expected vaccine rollout hindering the industry’s recovery.
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Horwath HTL Industry Report: Tourism & Hospitality Sector Assistance (V.5)
Horwath HTL decided to start collating industry support measurements on a country by country basis so that we can create a best practice benchmark that shows the different approaches.
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Older travellers will be the first to return, says G Adventures
G Adventures expects older holidaymakers to be travelling sooner than their younger counterparts, thanks to the deployment of vaccines.
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AHLA: Hotel and Travel outlook in 2021
The American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) released “AHLA’s State of the Hotel Industry 2021” outlining the forecasted state of the hotel industry in 2021 and into the immediate future…
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