Technology

Steven Chabinsky once said, “Thinking of cybersecurity solely as an IT issue is like believing that an entire company’s workforce, from the CEO down, is just one big HR issue.” 
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During the pandemic we’ve seen hotels cut all kinds of services due to lack of demand and to minimize contact between people. Over the past several months it has become increasingly clear that many of these service cuts are permanent…
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The problem of “rogue” hotel booking websites is bigger than previously known and is creating enormous problems for travelers and the hotel industry.
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Australia‘s competition watchdog on Friday said online booking agencies Expedia (EXPE) and Priceline Group’s (PCLN) Booking.com had agreed to allow Australian hoteliers to offer lower rates for direct bookings by telephone and walk-ins but not…
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Sir Richard Branson has named the date he'll fly to the edge of space. It will be 11 July, or very soon after…
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Summer is here, and traveler confidence is starting to approach its pre-COVID-19 levels…
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Company Details Results of Successful May Test Flight Following Data Analysis Test Flight Program on Track for Flights this Summer
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There is a long lobbyist-filled journey ahead for this House committee-backed bill to cut Google Travel down to size. But it’s an important step that was almost unthinkable a few years ago.
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Traditionally, aspiring hoteliers enter the industry because they have a passion for service. And we have groomed them as such. But as COVID-19 has so resolutely proven, that time is resolutely over.
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Lufthansa plans to allow German customers to access their vaccination certificates directly from the carrier’s app.
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United Airlines has signed an agreement with Boom Supersonic to purchase 15 of the firm’s Overture aircraft.
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The Ascott Limited (Ascott) has entered into a global partnership with health and security services company, International SOS, offering guests easy access to services including telehealth, telecounselling and travel security advisory…
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The research, conducted by Dr. Bettina Grün and her co-authors at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna), looked into the harmful tourist behaviour of taking lots of food at buffets – and not eating it – and why this happens…
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Seven countries in the European Union have launched the EU Digital Covid Certificate, a month ahead of the deadline for its implementation.
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A spokesperson for the National Alpine Speleological Rescue Corps, which is leading the rescue operation, said a cable snapped Sunday morning when a group was riding in a Stresa-Mottarone cable car from the Lido di Stresa piazza on Lake Maggiore to…
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Digital marketers are currently being faced with a once-unimaginable shift: the end of third-party cookies…
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We have all gotten them and now Marriott International is taking action to fight them…
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The hotel industry is being hampered in its recovery by a shortage of labor. The global pandemic is being blamed for the issue because many employees left the sector as hospitality businesses were forced to shut for months on end in 2020 and…
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The aviation industry is in crisis, there's a global push to cut carbon emissions, and many of us haven't stepped on a plane or hugged far-flung loved ones in more than a year. Reviving the supersonic dream that died with Concorde's retirement…
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After more than one year of global pandemic, we are yet to grasp all the different ways in which the virus has changed our lives…
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We all talk about when things will return to how they were in 2019 after COVID-19 is long gone. Some are optimistic; others say there’s no going back…
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The 1st hotel in Northern Europe offering a 100% digital experience will open its doors. A big step forward for Accor, whose ambition is to offer a contactless guest journey throughout its network, with the use of the best of technology…
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Guests at over 3,000 IHG Hotels and Resorts properties in the US and Canada can now check-in using digital technology.
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The uncertainties brought by COVID-19 were a deadly blow to both livelihoods and bottom lines, and it continues into 2021…
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