The Hotels Network, an innovative hotel tech company providing a full-stack direct growth platform, has partnered with GCommerce, a leading, hospitality digital marketing agency, With GCommerce’s proven marketing strategies and The Hotels Network’s …
Product traceability in the Food & Beverage industry
If cleanliness is next to godliness, traceability is next to transparency – a virtue very much in demand in today’s Food and Beverage industry. There is more to this rising trend than simply an increasingly informed body of consumers looking to make…
Hospitality Financial Leadership – Internal Control Reviews
Hot on the heels of creating a hotel policy manual is the newfound ability to create an internal control review process. Policies are all about the rules of the road and the ICR is all about the roadside check stop. “Excuse me, Sir, have you been dr…
Why Tracking RevPAR Only Is a Recipe for Failure
What’s the problem with a RevPAR-only hotel performance focus? Imagine you’re trying to bake a world-class cake. You’ve picked out the best ingredients, tossed them in a bowl, and … you’re done, right? Of course not. The ingredients going into the…
How Displaced Workers Have Fueled the New Work-From-Hotel (WFH) Trend
The world froze due to COVID-19, and the hotel industry is still in a bit of shock. While business travel is mostly stalled and vacations are slowly picking back up, there’s another category of guests that shouldn’t be ignored: Work-From-Hotel (WFH)…
Mergers Ahead for the Post-Pandemic Hotel Industry
Our industry is hurting. While we’re optimists, totally convinced that we can beat the two-year recovery our financial protagonists are forecasting, the world of Wall Street may soon see things very differently. I’m not a betting man, but I’ve got a…
The Rebound of Business Travel Post COVID-19
According to the Global Business Travel Association’s (GBTA) in April 2020, 99% of business travel by European companies have been cancelled or postponed. The business travel industry around the globe is anticipated to take a £655 billion revenue lo…
At least three pubs close again after Covid-19 cases confirmed
At least three pubs have taken the decision to close temporarily after weekend guests tested positive for coronavirus.
Leroy the latest restaurant to call time on discretionary service charge
Leroy in east London has become the latest restaurant to stop adding a discretionary service charge to bills, explaining “if you want to eat in a quality place it will cost you more, but you will also be doing better by the people who serve that food”.
Masterchef winner Simon Wood to host virtual chef event for prospective students
Simon Wood of Woods Restaurant in Manchester is taking part in ‘Couch to College’, an initiative by Manchester College for prospective hospitality students.