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“Dear Friends, It is imperative that we get the world moving again – once it is safe to do so. We are monitoring the introduction of travel restrictions around the world. Our latest data shows 100% of all destinations have restrictions in place. Dep…

From his office at the international headquarters (Issy Les Moulineaux) in France, where the progressive deconfinement began on May 11th, Sébastien Bazin looks back over the last 60 days and the lessons we can learn from it. Since the beginning of t…

Accor has been prioritizing the safety of its guests on a daily basis for more than 50 years, thanks to our high standards of hygiene and cleanliness applied by all our brands around the world. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and to ensure the safety o…

Accor announces today that it has signed an agreement with a consortium of 5 banks for a new €560m Revolving Credit Facility (RCF). It complements the undrawn €1.2bn RCF signed in July 2018. It further reinforces Accor’s liquidity position which tod…

In October 2019, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group pledged to eliminate all single-use plastic, across its portfolio of luxury hotels, by the end of March 2021. While the original timing for completion is likely to be impacted by the global effects of C…

Successful hospitality professionals know that the difference between success and failure often depends on how we deal with challenges and difficulties. In fact, this mindset aligns very well with the etymological roots of the word “crisis”. Whereas…

Hotels are cautiously reopening for the summer travel season, but it’s anything but business as usual in the hospitality industry. Last week, the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) introduced its Safe Stay guidelines developed under the gui…

In this weekly series, Hospitality Net looks at emerging technologies that are being deployed by hotels across the world to help face the consequences of the coronavirus outbreak and its related new legistlation and changing consumer behavior. To ge…

This means that hotels must put in the work now to plan ahead and be nimble for the ever-evolving demands of the situation. Critical to recovery will be the deployment of various technologies to better facilitate smooth operations during the post-co…

Your focus is likely on re-balancing your risk/return proposition the best you can, by either 1) increase your return or 2) decrease your risk. During these Corona days, the most likely strategy to succeed would be the latter. Or is it? Given the ri…