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When civil servants can’t find a rental because tourists snatch them all, where are they supposed to go? This glaring issue impacts teachers, police officers, doctors, and firefighters, particularly on islands and other hot summer…
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When the European Union introduced the Digital Markets Act (DMA), it was supposed to revolutionize the digital economy, it promised fairness but delivered chaos.
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Google has announced that it’s running a test which will see it remove various elements from its search results for hotel queries in Europe, which could impact hotel marketers.
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The growth of internet-based platforms arranging jobs for auto-entrepreneurs in hotels, restaurants and the medical sector has thrown up questions over their employment status.
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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled on price parity clauses in contracts between an important hotel reservation platform and hotel establishments. The CJEU has determined that these clauses must be analyzed under the rules on…
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A hotel based in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, has agreed to settle a lawsuit that alleged it fired an employee just days after they requested leave to recover and grieve following a stillbirth…
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The US hotels workers’ union remains locked in a dispute with hotels over wages, staffing levels and other issues with seemingly no end in sight.
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Police are continuing to probe the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where One Direction star Liam Payne tragically fell to his death aged 31 on October 16.
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Hotels in the Palm Beach area are apparently a hot commodity. The Ben hotel, in West Palm Beach, Florida, may soon be sold for an impressive $1 million per room, Bloomberg reported recently. 
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A wave of abusive consumers has prompted authorities to introduce the country’s first ordinance to protect service industry employees
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Thai Hotels Association says temples, schools and universities offering banquet and other services for profit should not be tolerated.
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Marriott International Inc. is suing one of its franchisee hotels in Jamaica, Queens, for $2.6 million, alleging that it breached its contract with the hospitality giant by morphing into a city shelter for migrants…
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Four former hotel workers were charged Tuesday with felony murder in connection with the June death of a Black man who authorities say was pinned to the ground outside a downtown Milwaukee hotel in an encounter partially captured on video, court…
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The owners of a downtown Sarasota hotel are suing a former employee and his current employer for defamation, trespassing and interfering with business operations after alleged continued harassment following the employee's termination…
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Sex trafficking survivors say the hotel chain ignored obvious signs that they were being trafficked to protect its profits. The company is set to face hundreds of lawsuits across the country, write Richard Hall and Alicja Hagopian…
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More than three-quarters of surveyed hotels are experiencing a staffing shortage, and hotels are increasing pay, benefits, and perks to recruit and retain employees, according to a May survey of hoteliers conducted by the American Hotel & Lodging…
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A self-service check-in terminal used in a German Ibis budget hotel was found leaking hotel room keycodes, and the researcher behind the discovery claims the issue could potentially affect hotels around Europe…
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I first heard of Mickey Barreto a few hours after he was arrested early on Valentine’s Day this year. He had been arraigned in a Manhattan court in what prosecutors said was a blatant, persistent scheme to take ownership of the once-grand New Yorker…
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