Hotel closures raise many issues and need to be implemented carefully to avoid creating additional adverse consequences. Akerman’s Hospitality Sector Team and Coronavirus Task Force are working with hotel owners to help them during this tumultuous t…
Europe Hotel Transactions Bulletin – Week Ending 17 April 2020
HVS Hodges Ward Elliott acts jointly on the sale of Icelandair Hotels to Berjaya Icelandair Group have completed the sale of a 75% stake in Icelandair Hotels to Berjaya Group, a major Malaysian real estate conglomerate with various hotel holdings in…
Promoting Your Hotel Brand in a Socially Distanced World
While people will always want to vacation in far-off lands or visit new cities for business trips, the new normal of social distancing will result in many travelers developing a profound and lasting stigma against widely shared spaces including hote…
Hotel Sales Teams: Use Downtime To Up Your Game At Using Screen Share, Video Email, Webcam Sales
Based on the conversations I’m having this week with our KTN clients, it seems that hotel sales teams are finding that there’s a lull in activity right now. The flood of calls and emails regarding cancellations and postponements has abated, and most…
COVID-19 Response: 96% Of Global Destinations Impose Travel Restrictions, UNWTO Reports
Over recent years, as the United Nations specialized agency for tourism, UNWTO has been regularly monitoring travel facilitation and observing a continuous trend towards more openness. COVID-19 has dramatically interrupted this. According to researc…
Duetto Launches Free Market Demand Report For Hoteliers
Duetto, hospitality’s innovative software as a service provider of revenue strategy solutions has launched the Duetto Pulse Report, a free, data-driven analysis of key metrics including bookings, cancellations and website traffic in the US, Europe, …
“Words Alone Will Not Save Jobs”: UNWTO Leads Call For Firm Action By Governments To Support Tourism Recovery
The Global Tourism Crisis Committee has united behind the World Tourism Organization’s rallying cry for governments to “go beyond words” and begin taking decisive action to safeguard the millions of jobs under threat as a result of the COVID-19 pand…
Germany’s Most Innovative Companies
Deutsche Hospitality comes first among 15 other German hotel chains in the “Innovation” category of the 2020 “WELT Corporate Management Awards”. “This award is a fabulous confirmation of our ability to innovate,” said Thomas Willms, CEO, Deutsche Ho…
Meliá Hotels International To Reward 10,000 Healthcare Workers Combatting COVID-19 With 10,000 2-night Hotel Stays
Meliá Hotels International is preparing to launch “the biggest solidarity campaign in the company’s history, inspired by the most exceptional circumstances we have ever experienced,” in which it will offer healthcare workers 10,000 free two-night ho…
Accor and Bureau Veritas launch a label based on sanitary measures to support the return to business in the hospitality and restaurant industry
Accor, a global leader in augmented hospitality, and Bureau Veritas, a world-leading provider in testing, inspection and certification, have joined forces to develop a label designed to certify that the appropriate safety standards and cleaning prot…