This is the first, and hopefully only, edition in which every single market recorded negative RevPAR performance. And not just modest declines. Big stonking ones. For example: Amsterdam (-68%), Prague (-73%), Paris (-73%). The best performers were R…
6 Hospitality Trends For Rebuilding Consumer Trust As Hotels Reopen
After what has been a dire time for hotels around the world, the industry is slowly rekindling its operations as lockdown is incrementally loosened. Alas, all is not as it once was. Increased health and safety concerns teamed with a heightened aware…
The Link Between Corporate Debt And Earnings Manipulation
Among the many COVID-19-related uncertainties, increasing corporate debt levels represent a major challenge, even though this is nothing new. Global corporate debt has been soaring since the sub-prime crisis and reached USD 72 trillion at the end of…
The Mayfair Townhouse Launching Autumn 2020
From the people who brought you the renowned Cliveden House and Chewton Glen, comes The Mayfair Townhouse – a new high-end neighbourhood hotel launching Autumn 2020 overlooking London’s Green Park. Curious, engaging, witty – The Mayfair Townhouse de…
Are Hotels Finally Ready to Embrace Attribute-Based Selling?
The way in which hotel rooms are sold today, and have been for the past 20 years, has remained relatively the same. With the current model the guest journey is essentially made of a few specific moments. The consumer begins by choosing a hotel and s…
Top 5 Things You Need to Know Now in Hotel Digital Marketing: August Edition
As Q3 comes to an end and hoteliers prepare their Q4 digital strategy, it’s important to keep a pulse on the evolving digital landscape to make a greater impact on performance. This month, Google Search added flight and hotel features around COVID-1…
Innovative AI-Enabled Hotel Smartconcierge, Ivy, Announces Official Integration with choiceADVANTAGE
LOS ANGELES (August 18, 2020) – Go Moment™, the world’s leading provider of real-time artificial intelligence guest communication solutions for the hospitality industry, announced the release of an official integration between their award-winning sm…
Andreas Acker and David Nuenemann have founded Shoreline Hospitality
The hotel managers Andreas Acker and David Nuenemann founded the consulting company Shoreline Hospitality. They provide consulting services to independent hotels, resorts but also restaurants in Germany as well as Internationally, with key markets b…
It’s Becoming Survival of the Fittest
Prepare your operations to meet what guests are looking for, and prepare your teams for the realities of today’s environment. Mike Ditka, former NFL star player and coach once said, “Success is not permanent, and failure is not fatal.” Today it is p…
UNWTO And Sommet Education “Hospitality Challenge” Searches For Future Tourism Leaders
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and Sommet Education are calling on career climbers and switchers, entrepreneurs and innovators to put themselves forward for the joint “Hospitality Challenge”. The initiative, which closes at the end of the mo…