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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Marriott’s Arne Sorenson Passes Away; Industry Reacts
Arne M. Sorenson, president/CEO of Marriott, unexpectedly died yesterday. He was 62. In May 2019, the company announced that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. On Feb…
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HB Exclusive: NextGuest Merges with Cendyn
Cendyn, a leading provider of cloud software and digital marketing services for the hospitality industry, and NextGuest, a New York and Munich-based CRM and digital marketing leader, combine to become the largest scalable CRM and digital marketing…
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IHG Hotels and Resorts launches sustainability programme
IHG Hotels and Resorts has today launched an internal sustainability programme called ‘Journey to Tomorrow‘…
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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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Abydos beer factory: Ancient large-scale brewery discovered in Egypt
Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed what could be the world's oldest known beer factory, dating back about 5,000 years.
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