Global hiring activity witnessed a momentous 2020 with significant changes throughout the year. The pharma and retail sectors saw pronounced hiring, and the active job index for these industries surpassed pre-COVID-19 levels in 2021 – notably with a…
Are Your Employees Ready To Travel?
For most of us it has been an age since we hopped on a plane to go to a meeting. It’s still hard to fathom that a whole year has passed since the COVID pandemic hit us. Local restrictions, health and safety, and quarantine measures are not making it…
Radisson Hotel Group Builds On Successful 2020 Signings
Brussels – Radisson Hotel Group looks ahead to 2021 with 30 planned hotel openings or 5,000 rooms across EMEA, building on the Group’s 40+ signings announced in 2020. The Group’s 2020 expansion included the introduction of the Radisson Individuals b…
Financial Leadership in the Hospitality Industry – By Guest Author – Amber Habing
This post will tell you about financial leadership in the hospitality industry. It is a summation of information from her research thesis at the Hotel Management School of Maastricht in The Netherlands. The aim of this research is to provide hotelie…
Kempinski Hotels Embarks On The Expansion Of Its Wellness And Wellbeing Strategy
Geneva – To better anticipate the increasing needs of its customers for wellness offering and to provide its guests with an expanded suite of high-end wellness and wellbeing services, Kempinski Hotels today announces that it has completed the acquis…
Europe Hotel Transactions Bulletin – Week Ending 26 February 2021
Arsenale Spa to acquire Grand Hotel de La Minerve in Rome from Billi Family Italian property investor Arsenale Spa has signed a preliminary agreement to acquire the 132-room Grand Hotel de La Minerve in Rome from the Billi family for an undisclosed …
Delicious 5 course meal inspiration from EHL’s top chef
At EHL, we come together to enjoy the rich opportunities to explore the hospitality industry with students and professors from all around the world. A central part of hospitality and tourism lies in the food industry. Tourists and locals alike appre…
London Short-Term Rentals Start Year With Higher Occupancy, Lower Rates
LONDON – London’s short-term rental industry recorded a month-over-month increase in occupancy but declines in average daily rate (ADR) and revenue per available room (RevPAR), according to January 2021 data from STR. January occupancy for the secto…
Airbnb & France: Recent decisions of the French Supreme Court put a sharp brake on Parisian short-term rental activity
On behalf of owners, Airbnb rents out furnished apartments to short stay, non-resident transient visitors. These rents are subject to the regulation of the City of Paris and this regulation has long stated that the activity of short-term furnished r…
Writing for the Moment
As a non-fiction writer, I usually choose to distance myself from the present moment and write instead about the past. It takes the expertise of a journalist to write about the present day. However, in 2020 many writers, finding themselves caught in…