Roaring 20s: How Hospitality Leaders are Building Profitable Recovery Strategies
Hoteliers have been adapting their strategies throughout the COVID-19 crisis to capture demand, from both old and new opportunities…
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Roaring 20s: How Hospitality Leaders are Building Profitable Recovery Strategies
Hoteliers have been adapting their strategies throughout the COVID-19 crisis to capture demand, from both old and new opportunities…
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Hotel general managers faced a crisis like no other. How will the lessons they learned apply to the future?
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To Decrease Or Not To Decrease Hotel ADR?
Following the economic fallout of 2020, many hotels and other tourism businesses have rushed to lower prices in an effort to stimulate demand. In this article, I analyze the competitive challenges of hotel ADR in the current climate…
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Amadeus: Global hotel occupancy reaches two-thirds of pre-pandemic levels
Since the start of the pandemic, hoteliers have had to rethink many aspects of their business to accommodate new safety procedures, cater to changing guest needs and survive in an extremely complex operating environment…
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Airbnb predicts unprecedented rebound in travel
Online booking platform Airbnb is predicting a travel rebound "unlike anything we have seen before" after seeing a big jump in holiday bookings.
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What’s next for hotel online bookings?
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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The post-pandemic reality for travel: What's really changed?
It would be easy and optimistic to suggest that the worst of the COVID-19 global pandemic is over. But infection rates are still increasing worldwide at around 700,000 per day and so the reality would indicate otherwise…
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Sadiq Khan to launch major £6m campaign to kickstart capital’s tourism
Re-elected London mayor Sadiq Khan is putting domestic tourism at the forefront of a new campaign that will take priority as one of his first jobs in his second term as mayor.
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Poll: More than one-third of hospitality workers will seek job outside of industry
The world’s battered hospitality and tourism industry has a long way to go to rebound from the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey of workers conducted by Florida Atlantic University (FAU)…
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London City airport launches new passenger travel portal
London City airport has unveiled a new portal to provide passengers with up-to-date travel information ahead of the restart of international trips this summer.
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A list of what will last from the pandemic
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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Wyndham expands franchisee relief measures reducing breakfast costs
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is expanding franchisee relief measures by reducing breakfast requirements for its economy brands…
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Hospitality Companies Thought Insurance Coverage Would Be There for a Crisis. It Wasn’t.
Caesars Entertainment is the latest hospitality company to wage a legal fight against its insurer to get a business interruption insurance payout due to government-ordered pandemic restrictions.
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New York hotels are poised to make a brand new start of it
On the heels of a tough winter, New York's embattled tourism and hospitality sectors may finally be turning the corner.
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London hotels club together to launch inaugural Hotel Week in May
A collection of some of London’s best hotels are to collaborate for a special week in May to celebrate the reopening of the capital’s hospitality sector.
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Marriott pilots arrival kiosks, grab-and-go concept
Marriott International Inc. has launched a pilot program for contactless arrival kiosks at several select-service hotels, as well as the launch of a proof-of-concept for contactless grab-and-go marketplaces at two Fairfield by Marriott hotels…
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Europe’s hotels see values fall by up to 15%
Sharp declines in revenue caused by the pandemic coupled with a more cautious approach to lending has prompted hotel valuations to fall over the past 12 months, although not as steeply as some had initially anticipated…
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