This year, preparing for the holidays comes with a new set of challenges, as the global pandemic has inspired many to stay at home this season in favor of a celebration with limited face-to-face contact. During a time when togetherness is desired mo…
Meliá Continues To Provide The Best Technology Solutions To Transform The Experience Of Business Travellers In The Post-COVID-19 age
The company has recently presented Meliá Hybrid Solutions, a range of technologies to transform meetings and events using hybrid formats with the latest innovations and the best hotel services. To achieve this, Meliá is working with experts in virtu…
Explore ’20: Expedia boss favours regulators having ‘a good hard look’ at frenemy Google’
Expedia boss Peter Kern has demanded a level playing field online saying the OTA is in favour of government regulators looking at the practices of its “frenemy” Google. Speaking during the global travel giant’s annual partner event, this year taking…
21 New Hilton Properties to Visit in 2021
COVID-19 has touched all of our lives in large and small ways, limiting how we have interacted with others and how we moved around – or, in many cases, didn’t. That has led to an enormous pent-up demand for travel. A new survey commissioned by Hilto…
Is Hospitality Ready For The Army Of Robots Coming To A Hotel Near You?
By 2025, over 85 million existing jobs will be lost due to the seismic shift toward robotization and automation, according to estimates in the “Future of Jobs Report 2020” published by the World Economic Forum. Dangerous, mundane and repetitive jobs…
Kievskaya Ploshchad Group of Companies and Accor announce the signing of Raffles Moscow hotel
Kievskaya Ploshchad Group of Companies and Accor, a world leading hospitality group, are pleased to announce the upcoming opening of a luxury hotel to be located in the very heart of Moscow. The flagship hotel, located next to the Kremlin, will be m…
Is the Future of the Hotel Industry in the Hands of Luxury Leisure Travelers?
Today’s episode is a “can’t be missed” for hoteliers. Chris Hartley, CEO of the Global Hotel Alliance (GHA), shared not only the organization’s backstory, but provided a deep dive into the role independent hotels play in travel, future travel trends…
Airbnb is worth more than the 3 largest hotel chains combined after its stock popped 143% on its first day of trading
Airbnb’s stock soared on Thursday in its highly anticipated public market debut, closing at $144.71 per share, more than double its initial offering of $68 per share. That price also gives the short-term rental giant an approximately $86.5 billion v…
Let’s Embrace The Recovery With “Style”
As we enter the final stretch before the end of a very special year, 2020, many are announcing a world of tomorrow, a hotel of tomorrow, a tourism of tomorrow… The pandemic is bringing new life to our professions, and we will not have enough on bo…
Rules Of Engagement: 8 Steps To Creating Captivating And Interactive Virtual Events
In September 2019, the CWT Meetings & Events (CWT M&E) team in Singapore held its inaugural MarketME event, providing a platform for buyers and suppliers in the industry to come together, exchange ideas and learn about the latest products, services,…