Digital Upselling: Go Where The Margins Are!
Due to the ongoing pandemic, hotels have lost several months' worth of business. The reopening and rebound period are slower than initially expected and occupancy levels will take time to recover to pre-crisis levels…
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Tourism spend on track for positive 2021 rebound: Euromonitor
World inbound tourism spend is expected to rebound by 82 per cent in 2021, recovering from a 57 per cent year-on-year plummet in 2020, according to the latest research by Euromonitor International.
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Wyndham unveils La Quinta / Hawthorn dual-brand concept
Wyndham Hotels and Resorts is to open the first property under its new dual-brand La Quinta and Hawthorn Suites concept next year.
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Hotel Grand Strategy Starts with Your People
A new year means a new mindset. And 2021 will be an interesting period as the entire hospitality sector looks for a fresh start…
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Rethinking hotel distribution channels
What is hotel distribution? A hotel distribution strategy is a plan of action for selling rooms profitably through a variety of channels.
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Boutique Hotelier Palisociety to Global Giants: We Don’t Need You to Fuel Our Growth
An alternative hotel universe actually thrived — or at least appeared to — over the last year while all operators in the industry struggled with their worst financial year on-record.
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Prepare now for the return of groups and meetings
The pandemic has dramatically accelerated the industry’s move toward the adoption of disruptive technology.
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Las Vegas Sands Sells Venetian and Sands Expo Center for $6.25 Billion
Las Vegas Sands Corp. said on Wednesday it would sell its Las Vegas real estate property and operations for about $6.25 billion, as the casino operator focuses on Asia and growth opportunities in new markets…
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HotStats: Global hotel profit performance divides in new year
Turning the page doesn’t always assure a better result. After the worst performing year on record, the hotel industry was ready for 2021, but resigned to the fact that a new year doesn’t mean things automatically get better…
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This report shares anticipated investor trends accelerated since the onset of the pandemic
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Wyndham Rewards grows portfolio through Vacasa partnership
Wyndham Rewards has added of more than 15,000 new vacation rentals to its global redemption portfolio through an expanded relationship with Vacasa, a vacation rental platform.
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Reexamining the Communications Hierarchy for Centennial Guests
It seems like just yesterday we were talking about how to adjust your method of communications to better appeal to millennial guests…
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Rome to welcome Accor's Orient Express brand in 2023
Accor’s Orient Express brand is set to launch in Rome in 2023, with the major refurbishment of the historic Grand Hotel de la Minerve.
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Understanding crime patterns and hotspots in the context of hotel security design
Crime does not occur randomly or uniformly in time or space, or society. Crimes do not happen randomly or uniformly across all hotels the same way. Arguing for uniformity was once popular, but now seems indefensible…
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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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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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Hilton to add ten German hotels under Hampton, Garden Inn and Motto brands
Hilton has signed an agreement to develop ten new properties in Germany under its Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton by Hilton and Motto by Hilton brands.
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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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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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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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A British millionaire has been ordered to demolish the $64 million chateau
British millionaire property developer Patrick Diter and his wife, Monica, wanted to buy a villa in Tuscany…
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IHG Hotels & Resorts Rebrands, Restructures
IHG Hotels & Resorts has refreshed its branding and restructured its brands into four collections…
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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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