HSMAI To Honor the Top 25 Extraordinary Minds of 2020
The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association (HSMAI) is proud to recognize the brightest minds in the hospitality industry with the 2020 HSMAI Top 25 Extraordinary Minds in Sales, Marketing, and Revenue Optimization…
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Fake Covid documents could cause real problems for travel
The negative Covid-19 test result, purportedly from a company called Tri-Alta Laboratory Corp., would look real enough to most eyes. It even has a disclaimer at the bottom cautioning that a negative test doesn't rule out infection…
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SiteMinder: Travel Planning Is Returning in 2021
SiteMinder World Hotel Index has revealed two reasons for the travel industry to remain optimistic this year…
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Airbnb: 2021 Will Be the Year of Meaningful Travel
Airbnb has released a new report and highlighted how 2021 will see a shift toward more meaningful travel as the pandemic continues to limit mass tourism and afflict the industry overall…
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After Unanticipated 2020, Hotel Industry Knows What It’s Up Against
The end of 2020 is not the end of the problems for the global hotel industry, but it does bring hope on the wings of a vaccine that, in time, could be a panacea for wait ails it: fear.
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The Fire Sale That Never Happened
Expecting a tidal wave of distressed selling and recapitalizations at 30-50% discounts to pre-COVID values, the private equity industry raised an unprecedented amount of capital in the early months of the pandemic…
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China’s Hotel Recovery Falls Off Rails Amid New Coronavirus Flare-Ups
The hotel industry’s geographic revenue bright spot during the pandemic is even grappling with second surge setbacks.
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European Hotel Deal Volume Expected To Grow in 2021
The European hotel transactions picture was dire in 2020 as hotel firms saved cash and two of the largest deals took place before COVID-19 erupted, but deals volume could grow in 2021 as more distress hits the market…
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Patrick Landman: 5 Step Plan to Create the Perfect Guest Experience
It is now more important than ever to make every guest's stay be as fulfilling and enjoyable as possible for your hotel…
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Airport Hotels Contend With Drop in Passengers
Marketing efforts at airport hotels are targeting specific groups of travelers such as remote workers, staycation guests, construction crews and front-line workers. With U.S…
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Executives re-evaluate operations as pandemic continues
Hotel executives on a webinar hosted by HVS and The Lodging Conference discussed adjusting operations, needed liability protection and the benefits of bleisure travel.
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A Best Western hotel in London is now taking in Covid-19 patients as hospitals run out of beds
The Best Western Hotel in the London suburb of Croydon would normally be packed with visiting families, out-of-town construction workers, and business travelers.
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IATA Travel Pass digital health solution to be rolled out to major airlines in March
IATA’s head of airport, passenger and security products, Alan Murray Hayden, says fast progress is being made to bring its Travel Pass digital health credential solution to market, and “most of the world’s biggest airlines will be using it from…
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What You Can Learn from a Thousand Articles Written
My first published article on hospitality debuted in early March 2011 and just last month we rolled out our sixth book entitled, "More Hotel Mogel" (October 2020)…
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Covid-19 crisis sees Premier Inn owner cut 1,500 jobs
Premier Inn’s owner Whitbread says that around 1,500 staff have left the business as a result of travel restrictions and decreased demand caused by Covid-19.
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‘Nobody Gets Out of This Stronger’ Says Langham Hotels CEO
Hospitality will be permanently altered by the pandemic. Here’s how one hotel group is handling it
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When will international travel return? Here's what we know right now
There's hope: Summer vacations abroad may happen in a big way this year…
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“A VUCA world”, “a VUCA environment”, “VUCA leadership” and even “vucability”. These seemingly insightful phrases beg the question: What is VUCA?
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