Implementing a revenue strategy comes with a unique set of challenges, on top of the existing challenges facing hotels at the moment due to the colossal impact of the pandemic. Hotels need to remember why they are optimising each channel, and how di…
Hard And Soft Skills: Striking The Right Balance For Career Success
Loyal to my Jura origins, I often compare the world of education to the complex mechanism of a Swiss watch. Indeed, precision and technique are necessary components for creating high-quality watches, but they are nothing without the complement of so…
Hotelschool The Hague Launches New Master Programme For Future Leaders In The Hotel Industry
Developed pre-pandemic but never more relevant than today, this one-year programme is an in-depth exploration of the challenges and opportunities that the international hotel industry faces today and in the future. The first intake will start in Sep…
Marriott Focused On Helping Owners With Costs, New Development
As the hotel industry continues on its way to recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, Marriott International is working closely with owners to control costs and guide new construction. Liam Brown, group president for the U.S. and Canada at Marriott, …
Book Your Entire Road Trip In One Go – Scandic First Nordic Hotel Chain To Introduce Online Multi-Booking
As school graduations and holidays approach, many people are now planning their summer vacations and interest in experiences, visiting relatives and road trips is high. To simplify planning, Scandic is pleased to be the first in the hotel industry t…
Fornova Presentation – FornovaRI – Revenue and operational analytics in a unified dashboard
Fornova empowers the global travel and hospitality industry to optimize distribution, generate demand and maximize revenue by delivering best-in-class, data-driven Business Intelligence solutions. Our clients include most of the world’s top 10 large…
Curator Hotel & Resort Collection Adds Five New Member Hotels
BETHESDA, MARYLAND – Announced today, Curator Hotel & Resort Collection added five new member hotels to its rapidly growing portfolio, giving these independent hotels and resorts access to Curator’s best-in-class operating agreements, services, and …
UNWTO And Euronews Partner To Highlight The Relevance Of Tourism
This agreement was signed within the framework of the opening of UNWTO’s first Regional Office in the Middle East in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It builds on the existing cooperation between the UN specialized agency for tourism and this leading internati…
How Can Hoteliers Solve Labor Shortages Through Technology
Background With travel demand accelerating rapidly, the hospitality industry is experiencing a new major challenge: labor shortages resulting in sharply rising labor cost in the U.S., which consumed as much as 87% of RevPAR (CBRE) in Q1, 2021. Total…
Focus On Productivity: How COVID Taught Us To Do More With Less Resources…
According to the Global Travel Staffing Barometer, due to the pandemic, travel companies around the world have laid off or furloughed over half a million people, and the number of LinkedIn users in the hospitality space applying the #opentowork hash…