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Faced with low demand for its hotel rooms over the summer, Accor has launched a Hotel Office concept allowing workers to make daytime bookings and use the rooms for work. The offer is available at 250 hotels across the UK and a further 70 across Eur…

Art-Invest acquires Leonardo Royal Berlin Alexanderplatz from Fattal Art-Invest Real Estate has acquired the 346-room Leonardo Royal Berlin Alexanderplatz hotel from the Fattal Hotel Group for an undisclosed price for its AIREF Hotel Manage to Core …

Every year in my home country the provincial premiers get together to eat lobster and drink cheap wine. Meanwhile some political work is being done. I remember two such conferences. I have a story about both. It’s always a big deal when the premiere…

COVID-19 has knocked the wind out of hotel profits. No more so than within the conference business, a traditionally bustling moneymaker that has wilted amid the pandemic. Still, sitting on your hands until it all blows over is not the smart approach…

A few months ago, travel forecasts were optimistic, growing, carefree. Consider the following developments: New brands were being introduced at a never before seen pace (e.g., Hilton’s Tru and MOTTO, IHG’s Avid and VOVO) Existing brands were being u…

The need for product differentiation in hotels is readily clear these days, especially in the light of the COVID crisis which has rewritten the rules on where your customers will be coming from for the remainder of calendar year 2020. Despite all th…

With restrictions slowly lifting, travelers are looking for easy ways to get a break from their “new normal”. The focus now is staycations – where can locals go to take a break from everyday life? Industry experts are seeing that more people are dri…

Padraig Gallagher, Director of Rooms, Thompson Nashville The traditional housekeeping expertise is still very much relevant but with a greater focus on disinfectant and personal protective equipment. The ABC’s of housekeeping remain the same such as…

This is my second pandemic-themed article, following the last magnum opus on Hotel Marketing and Revenue Management in the Time of Pandemic. I was definitely hoping for things to be better by now. I still have a lot of optimism. However, for now, th…

The travel standstill has afforded hotels and their partners a chance to revisit distribution and marketing strategies and processes which in better days have mostly operated on a “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” maxim. But hotel conversations toda…