The coronavirus pandemic has brought air travel to a screeching halt around the globe. Government restrictions and stay-at-home orders have stopped passengers from crossing borders or even leaving their homes, sapping demand for flight bookings. In …
Where we’re traveling next
(CNN) — Like most of the world, we here at CNN have been grounded for the past several weeks. For a team that covers travel daily, this has been a challenging time. Not for lack of news, but because most of us feel at home while on the road or in th…
Post-Covid-19 Hotel Re-Opening Planning – Start Now
An epidemic such as that we are now experiencing, requires that plans for re-opening build in assumptions that can be reviewed as the situation becomes clearer. Unlike having set target dates for opening a new hotel, based on construction and fittin…
Buy Now, Check In Later
In the absence of travel during the pandemic, hotels are asking travelers to plan future trips and sweetening the incentive by offering discounted gift certificates. For those with the means to spend, the offers are enticing. For example, the beer-t…
“We’re hoteliers because we naturally have values of welcome, solidarity, conviviality, strong human relations”
Interview between Fabrice Collet, CEO B&B Hotels and Vanguélis Panayotis, CEO MKG Consulting. The time of a confined coffee (Le temps d’un café confiné), return on the Coronavirus crisis and its impact on the B&B Hotels group. Video of the interview…
Why we started Magnuson Hotels
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Thermal Imaging and Its Potential Effect on The Travel and Hospitality Sector
These days, you can’t help but notice that virtually every COVID-19 news clip has repeatedly depicted a person being screened for fever using some device that looks like it is from Star Trek. The use of the non-contact handheld infra-red thermometer…
The Future of Travel: Losing the Freedom of Travel Runs Deep
The loss of our freedom to travel has been a devasting blow for the industry, but for many consumers the psychological and social impact runs much deeper. This was the key takeaway from Thomas Willms, CEO of Deutsche Hospitality – Germany’s largest …
Hotel Operations in the COVID Era
Social distancing has become a norm in today’s COVID-19 world and hotels need to re-evaluate and update their SOPs to adapt to this change. HVS has prepared this document to help hoteliers in the planning process regarding the formulation of SOPs on…
Coronavirus Won’t Kill Leisure Or Business Travel, But It Will Change Them Significantly, Perhaps Forever
While major U.S. airlines and the Treasury Department haggled ferociously in recent days over how much of the taxpayers’ money will be given to the carriers vs. how much would be loaned to them instead, no one doubts that demand for air travel, now …