Bill Marriott is planning to step down from his role as chairman of Marriott International’s board after more than four decades leading the company. Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson announced on the firm’s earnings call Tuesday Bill Marriott, 88, would tr…
Make A Travel Promise: Kempinski Hotels Launches a New Campaign for Future Hotel Stays
As anticipation is known to be the most beautiful kind of joy, Kempinski Hotels has launched a worldwide campaign entitled ‘Make A Travel Promise’, offering guests the possibility of now making themselves, their partners or family and friends a trav…
ProfitSword Publishes Best Practice Guide on How Hoteliers can Overcome Market Uncertainty and Safeguard Revenue
ProfitSword, hospitality’s premier developer of business intelligence and data integration software, has published a detailed guide demonstrating how hoteliers can leverage the latest business intelligence strategies and their organization’s perform…
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts Collaborates with Johns Hopkins Medicine International on Enhanced Health and Safety Program at Properties Worldwide
TORONTO – Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, the world’s leading luxury hospitality company, has entered into a collaboration with Johns Hopkins Medicine International, the global division of health care and research leader Johns Hopkins Medicine, to …
The first Steigenberger Hotels & Resorts reopen
Thomas Willms, CEO, Deutsche Hospitality, undertook an on-site visit to the Steigenberger Hotel Munich on Thursday 14 May 2020 in order to clarify how the company’s new extended guidelines and hygiene measures will apply in practice. “We have been t…
Hotels at Secondary and Tertiary Airports Will Suffer Longer
The coronavirus pandemic’s impact on travel is thought to be six or seven times greater than the 9/11 attacks, according to the U.S. Travel Association. Air travel volume fell precipitously through March. The estimated revenue losses by air carriers…
HVS: Paris Profile – Exploring How the City Will Recover from the COVID-19 Lockdown
The restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic have severely hit the hospitality industry worldwide. In Paris, a small proportion of all hotels currently remain in operation, and the occupancy levels for these opened hotels is currently in single…
Travel & tourism deal activity rebounds, growing 22.7% during week ended May 10 2020, finds GlobalData
The number of deals announced in the global travel and tourism sector grew by 22.7% during the week ended May 10, 2020 compared to the previous week, according to GlobalData’s deals database. Aurojyoti Bose, Lead Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “Th…
Preferred Hotels & Resorts Welcomes 26 New Member Hotels
New York, New York – Preferred Hotels & Resorts has welcomed 26 new member hotels across 14 destinations in the past four months, from January 1 and April 30, 2020, with the new additions ranging from the iconic Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Flori…
Introducing “Generation Clean” – The New Age of Hotel Guests
Health and safety will have a profound influence on the traveler psyche and is consequently what travelers will look for when booking a hotel. To sum up the importance of this dynamic, let’s look at it this way. The marketing strategy for pre-COVID-…