New Smyrna Beach, Florida – PROVision Partners (“PROVision”), a leading global strategic growth, marketing, technology, and commercial services advisory firm to the travel and hospitality industry, announces the appointment of Doug Carr as a Senior …
Skift Global Forum Preview: Expedia CEO Sees Airbnb as ‘One-Dimensional’
Join Skift editors and research analysts as we explore our 2021 theme: Reigniting Travel’s New Economy. Now in its eighth year, Skift Global Forum 2021 is where global industry leaders will come together to discuss travel’s great comeback, making th…
Q: What is E-Marketing?
There are over 27 million hotels in the world, which means that organizations interested in capturing the attention of customers will have to find a way to differentiate themselves from others in the industry, particularly those around their precise…
Labor Shortages and Increasing Labor Costs Post-COVID-19: How Future Hospitality Businesses are Going to Thrive?
Abstract After tens of thousands of hotels and restaurants were suffering from shutting down due to the pandemic, the hospitality industry is finally beginning to rebound. However, the rebound is not proceeding smoothly as the revenue lost during th…
Bob had a bad night: IoT mischief in a capsule hotel takes neighborly revenge to the next level
Researchers have revealed how security vulnerabilities could be exploited to compromise hotel Internet of and take revenge on loud neighbors. IoT devices are now commonplace both in businesses and in the home. These internet and often Bluetooth-conn…
Hotels must cease the dangerous trend of hygiene theater
At a time when many Americans are patronizing hotels for the first time in almost 18 months – and cases of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 are on the rise – hotels must cease the dangerous trend of ‘hygiene theater’ and adopt an effective, sustainab…
Where Are All These Guests Who Supposedly Prefer Humanless Hotel Experiences?
For probably a decade now, I have almost daily been reading articles and blog posts about how today’s hotel guests prefer to interact with technology rather than humans. Of course, it is not by coincidence that most of these are authored by executiv…
Latest Hotel Forecast: Leisure Surpasses 2019; Business and Group Have ‘a Long Way To Go’
There is a lot of good news to pull out from STR’s latest full-year 2021 forecast for the hotel industry — leisure demand surpassing pre-pandemic levels and hoteliers holding rate through the downturn — but a hazy outlook for corporate spending is k…
360 Networks and Nomadix Partner to Create Contactless Calling and Digital Concierge Experiences
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – August 17, 2 021 – 360 Networks, makers of the hospitality communications platform, ComXchange, today announced its new partnership with Nomadix, a technology leader in hospitality and multi-tenant industries, to equip hotels…
Why It’s Time for Hotels to Prioritize Long-Term Controlled Spending
After the year that was 2020, 2021 seems to be a period defined by cautious optimism. A world on the precipice of a long-awaited reopening, with a predicted surge of social and economic activity ready to shift our respective communities from the ‘ne…