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While upselling often gets touted as a great way to boost revenue and the guest experience, its importance goes way beyond that. 
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Guests are now falling into one of two distinct profiles. Find out what they are and what makes these guests tick.
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Once a symbol of pandemic-era hospitality, the cold grab-and-go breakfast bag has fallen out of fashion, as hotels strive to not only bring back hot breakfast and buffets but also ensure their spread is better than ever…
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What will hotels of the future look like and how will they function? The Hotel of Tomorrow Project (HOT Project), a global think tank of industry leaders, seeks to answer that question…
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A celebrity chef and a veteran luxury hotelier have announced a new hotel brand where regional food is the star.
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They are TikTokers who Snapchat and pegged to be the first immersed users of Metaverse. How well are you placed to attract Gen Zer to your hotel?
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Everyone compares themselves against themselves. Has their weight increased or decreased? Did their number of steps increase this week compared to the previous week? Did they get more sleep last night than the previous night…
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Despite the efforts of brand leaders to create meaningful differentiation of hotel flags, when I speak with both professional and social meeting planners, they generally express seeing very little difference, at least within any given market…
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With the US seeing no end to the worker shortage in the near future, focusing on employee retention is the only clear solution to keeping restaurants staffed.
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Industry veterans David Kong, Rachel Humphrey and Lan Elliott are the principals of newly launched DEI Advisors, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering women and other minority groups to achieve their career aspirations…
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The notion of employee training evokes images of yawn-inducing lectures that team members are obliged to attend. In fact, the opposite can hold true: training has the potential to be interactive, dynamic, and yes, even transformational…
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Which upselling offers work best? And how much ancillary revenue can I expect to make with upselling at my hotel?
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A groundbreaking submersible has welcomed passengers on its first ever public dives in a hugely significant move for submarine tourism.
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Previously, we tied together how employee culture and the employee links in the service profit chain.  The total employee experience drives customer satisfaction, loyalty, and business bottom profitability…
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Signing up a hotel operator can be a daunting task to some, while others consider it almost trivial. We believe a careful evaluation is in order to find the best match.
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Tripscout is launching a hotel booking platform that co-founder and CEO Konrad Waliszewski says will offer private rates at discounts of up to 75% below the best publicly available rates.
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A focus piece that resumes the challenges of independent hotels in their CSR journey…
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Aren’t digital signs used mostly in retail? Aren’t they more commonly seen at events and such? Isn’t it only cinemas that use digital signs around their entrances? In truth, digital signs are used in all those circumstances, but they are also…
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