SiteMinder, the global hotel industry’s leading guest acquisition platform, has unveiled the lists of distribution channels that brought the greatest booking revenue to hotels in 2020 and since the global hotel booking reset began in April. The list…
Business Travel: Full Recovery Expected by 2025
Alexandria, Virginia – The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) – the world’s largest business travel association – released its annual BTI™ Outlook, a detailed analysis of business travel in 2020, with projections for 2021 and beyond. The BTI …
Hybrid Meetings Impact on Group Business
Who could have predicted a year ago that Zoom would be a major disruptive influence in the Meetings Industry? Years of speculation about the threat to hotels from videoconferencing was much ado about nothing until the Pandemic. Now, conventional wis…
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group Launches ‘Wellness on the Road’ Initiative for Corporate Travellers and Groups
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group has launched a new global initiative to help corporate and meeting travellers maintain a healthy lifestyle and mindful balance while on the road. The initiative is exclusively designed for the Group’s corporate partners…
SuiteCast: Bringing easy and flexible streaming to the hotel room
Moritz von Petersdorff-Campen, co-founder and managing director of SuitePad: “Today, in addition to traditional normal television viewing, guests want to be able to use their usual streaming services in the hotel room. With SuiteCast, anyone can now…
Hapi and addappation Partner to Transform Data into Powerful Applications
MIAMI and EXETER, New Hampshire – Two companies singularly focused on unlocking data from siloed technology systems have partnered on providing an end-to-end platform to help various hospitality stakeholders access internal data and turn it into use…
The frustrating and liberating ways travel is returning in 2021
Travel will slowly start to return in 2021 – but it won’t be any fun. As the first vaccines began to be approved and administered late last year, officials, businesses, and travelers began hoping that the great travel freeze of 2020 might begin comi…
Hyatt Launches The Great Relocate, Offering Fixed Price, Long-term Stays
After a turbulent year of cancelled travel plans, 2021 can be the year it’s possible to tick ‘seeing more of the world’ off the bucket list. Hyatt Hotels has launched ‘The Great Relocate,’ a long-stay package to cater to the pent-up desire amongst c…
Staypineapple and Angie Hospitality Offer Comfortable, Contactless Experience for Guests and Their Pets
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – February 2, 2021 – Angie Hospitality® by Nomadix, the leading provider of voice-activated and contactless technology solutions for hotels, today announced Staypineapple, An Artful Hotel, Midtown, New York, implemented a Stayc…
Stock Exchange Hotel Selects ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions to Maximize Security Abilities With VingCard Essence Door Locks and Mobile Access
Stockholm – February 2, 2020 – ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions with its industrywide status as the leading innovator of hotel security access technology, has been selected by the Stock Exchange Hotel to implement VingCard Essence door locks equipped wit…