Consumer confidence is slowly returning, with two main trends: short-term booking windows and long-term reservations towards the end of 2021, reports the latest edition of the Duetto Pulse Report, which tracked data from June 15-28 across three key …
Hotel Operators Must Be Flexible, Be Lean and React Quickly to Change, says HVS Webinar Panellists
The issue of financing the cost of reopening the hotel sector was the hot topic tackled in the second hotel webinar organised by global hotel consultancy HVS, legal firm Bird & Bird, EP Hospitality and AlixPartners, which was held yesterday [8th Jul…
The Digital Recipe For Guaranteed Success In 2020
Technology is not a consequence businesses need to adapt to, but rather an opportunity that businesses can take advantage of. Having worked in the digital world of hospitality for four years, I have a long list of success stories thanks to basic tec…
COVID-19: The 1 Thing Your Business Needs To Recover Quickly
At a time of fairly steady recovery, depending on where you are in the world, companies make choices every day that can mean definitive capitulation or a further step towards financial recovery. This is a good time to bring in interns. Let me explai…
Despite Covid-19, New Summer 2020 Hotel Openings Offer Hope For Travel Rebound
The celebratory ribbon cutting was still fresh in their minds when managers at Quirk Hotel Charlottesville had to close after only two weeks in operation due to Covid-19. It seems that new hotel openings, especially this summer, are going to face a …
Luxury Paris hotels to stay closed this summer
Most top Paris hotels – classed as “palaces” – are set to stay closed until September 2020, it has emerged, due to lack of bookings following the Covid-19 pandemic. Of the 12 luxury Parisian hotels classed as “palaces” by French tourism body Atout F…
Athens Capital Hotel – MGallery to Open on September 1
Athens Capital Hotel – MGallery, the new property in the portfolio of Lampsa Hellenic Hotels SA, has announced its opening on September 1, in the center of the Greek capital. An investment of 25 million euros, the hotel will offer art in all its exp…
Marketing to groups looking to buy out entire hotels
Some hoteliers have realized that one way to bring in business during the coronavirus crisis is to rent out their entire properties. This guest type includes non-profits dedicated to fighting the crisis, sports teams, government agencies, or even ex…
Expedia’s Melissa Maher talks recovery in travel, partnership with hotels
Charuta Fadnis, senior vice president, research & product strategy at Phocuswright hosted ‘The Breakfast Show In North America’ at WiT Virtual Summit on 24 June when she interviewed Melissa Maher, chief inclusion officer & senior vice president, Exp…
ALL – Accor Live Limitless: Passions Can’t Be Confined!
Find out what he said in the first episode of 360° Inside, a series that gives you a sneak peek at what goes on behind the scenes of various teams and projects. In this first episode 360° Inside shows how, in exceptional circumstances, the ALL teams…