New Hotel Accounting Metrics Designed To Benchmark Sustainability Efforts
Energy, Water and Waste a Focus of 12th Edition of Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry
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New Hotel Accounting Metrics Designed To Benchmark Sustainability Efforts
Energy, Water and Waste a Focus of 12th Edition of Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry
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Distressed Hotels: Financial Restructurings and Bankruptcy
COVID-19 has been devastating for the hospitality industry. Hotel occupancy rates are still well below normal. While some lenders are still granting relief to borrowers, lenders increasingly have been foreclosing on properties…
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Hotels Must Embrace Remote Work
After my last pandemic-focused article, my inbox was flooded with queries about remote work. I had urged hotels to embrace remote work and stop putting geographical restrictions on hiring the best talent…
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As they look forward to ten years of twenty2degrees Design Partnership with a slew of hospitality projects designed under their leadership, Nick Stoupas and Joe Stella took time out of their schedule to tell Sophie Harper how two Aussies came to the…
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The Corona virus Pandemic is far from over,” screams the most recent Deutsche Welle (DW) headline…
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IN THE BIG CHAIR - NICOLAS HUSS OF HOTELBEDS
Nicolas Huss became CEO of Hotelbeds just over six months ago, taking up the reins from chairman Joan Vila. Huss has a background in the financial and payments industry and was previously CEO of Ingenico and Visa Europe…
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How city hotels are reinventing their business models to stay competitive
City hotels are far from dead. They are just having to reinvent their offer to include more innovative and community-inspired ventures, activities and products to address the changing needs of their clientele…
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Future-facing demand data: the key to maximizing revenue even in trying times
Which aspects of life and business has the pandemic not impacted? It’s hard to come up with any. Especially when you look at the hospitality industry, barely anything is as it was one or two years ago…
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Employee Retention "How To" - What you need to know
Oh retention! It’s 2021 and we are witnessing “The Great Resignation” with a mass employee exodus…
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Current Changes in Remote Work and Opportunities for the Hospitality Industry
The recent global pandemic has certainly accelerated a change in the way we work and interact in companies. However the concept of co-working has been around for some years now. By 2025, 6.5 million people are expected to be working remotely…
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China’s Choppy Hotel Recovery Sounds Warning Alarm for Global Developers
Even though the hotel industries in the U.S. and Europe have outperformed China in recent weeks, developers in these stronger markets should consider how their projects will be impacted by China’s closed borders remaining walled off…
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The 'floating hotel' rusting away in North Korea
It was once an exclusive five-star resort floating directly over Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Today, it sits dilapidated in a North Korean port, a 20-minute drive from the Demilitarized Zone, the restricted area that separates the two Koreas…
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Six trends that will shake up the travel space in 2022
It’s that time of year again, where we look into our crystal ball - with the help of anonymized aggregated travel data and conversations with Amadeus experts - to see what the travel industry can expect next year…
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INTERVIEW: STEPHEN ALDEN, CEO, RAFFLES & ORIENT EXPRESS
Following a remarkable career spanning three decades in the hospitality industry, Stephen Alden was appointed CEO of Raffles and Orient Express in May…
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7 travel marketing trends for 2022
There is never a dull moment when it comes to marketing in general. It’s even more so in the digital marketing sphere where tactics, platforms and features evolve at such a speed it can be difficult to keep pace…
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INTERVIEW: STEFAN RIER & LUKAS RUNGGER, FOUNDERS, NOA
When Stefan Rier and Lukas Rungger first met and bonded over a few beers, they didn’t realise how significant their friendship and shared design ethos would be…
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How to effectively create your hotel’s USP
Has any industry had a more inconvenient pandemic than the tourism industry? Where other businesses’ main issue has been how to manage a remote team, in the early days of March 2020, it felt as though the holiday lights were turned off almost…
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Booking.com Introduces “Native Ads”
For many hotels, the line between “distribution” and “marketing” has always been quite blurry.
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