Skift Blog
JUNE 24, 2024
Skift Take: There is an overall push in India to enhance air connectivity to smaller regions across the country. An increase in number of airports, increase in disposable income, and heightened interest in travel have given airlines the confidence to invest in expansion of their domestic operations. This is leading to Indians traveling more, domestically and internationally.
Hotel Management
JUNE 24, 2024
Vivid Sydney provided a welcome winter boost for city hotels in its 14 th year, with the festival drawing thousands of visitors to the CBD and experiencing its largest opening night on record. Throughout the event, which ran from May 24 through to June 15, occupancy rates stayed strong despite unfavourable weather conditions, with hotels reporting 75% occupancy on weeknights and up to 90% on weekends.
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Skift Blog
JUNE 24, 2024
Skift Take: Delaware and Maryland beaches along with other U.S. coastal hotspots are seeing spikes in bookings for short-term rentals and vacation homes during the upcoming holiday weekend, according to exclusive data from AirDNA.
Lodging
JUNE 24, 2024
DALLAS—DerbySoft, a leader in high-performance distribution services, announced a new partnership with IDeaS, a SAS company, the world’s leading provider of hospitality revenue management software and services, that strategically provides operational and revenue-enhancing benefits for hotels of all types. This partnership integrates IDeaS’ G3 Revenue Management System (RMS) with Property Connector, DerbySoft’s Digital Distribution System, providing connectivity services to indi
Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales at Allego
Maximizing sales rep performance is no easy task. 📈 Traditional sales training methods focus heavily on the first few weeks in the sales role. Companies dedicate time, resources, and budget to onboarding new hires, only for them to forget what was learned in those first few weeks, lose motivation, and struggle to come to grips with their role.
Skift Blog
JUNE 24, 2024
Skift Take: Oyo looks to make the most of India's burgeoning outbound travel market, as evidenced by its recent launch of premium hotels in popular destinations for Indian tourists.
Hospitality Net
JUNE 24, 2024
The HOTEL Yearbook (HYB) is thrilled to announce the publication of its TECHNOLOGY 2024 edition, at HITEC 2024 in Charlotte, NC. This year’s edition delves into the transformative power of data, exploring how the "everything-data decade" is reshaping the hospitality industry landscape.
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Hospitality Net
JUNE 24, 2024
NH Bangkok Sukhumvit Boulevard will be the first NH in Bangkok, second in Thailand, as Minor Hotels maps the brand’s expansion outside of Europe and the Americas.
Skift Blog
JUNE 24, 2024
Skift Take: Travel, when you think about it end-to-end, involves a lot of stress, headaches, planning, and orchestration. The Agoda C-Suite gets this and knows their mission is to ease these burdens for travelers. And they're relying heavily on tech to achieve this.
Hospitality Net
JUNE 24, 2024
When you think of the most important department in a hotel, accounting may not be the first one that comes to mind for many people. The truth is, however, a hotel or multiproperty hotel organization requires accurate data from its accounting systems to sustain its financial health and run efficiently, and that affects all of the other departments.
Skift Blog
JUNE 24, 2024
Skift Take: Several destinations have experienced a tourism boom in recent years, but has a surge in visitors contributed to inflation?
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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr
Hospitality Net
JUNE 24, 2024
Canada’s hotel industry recorded its highest performance levels in eight months, according to CoStar’s May 2024 data. CoStar is a leading provider of online real estate marketplaces, information and analytics in the property markets.
Skift Blog
JUNE 24, 2024
Skift Take: Portland is going to need another tourism champion, one who will be an outspoken advocate.
Hospitality Net
JUNE 24, 2024
As I make the rounds conducting hotel sales training, I am afforded the opportunity to peek into how hotel group and event salespeople are using a wide variety of what I collectively call “Sales CRMs.” This is because as part of our pre-training assessment, I get to preview the clients’ sales tech, and when time allows, we have participants do workshop activities in their sales CRMs.
Skift Blog
JUNE 24, 2024
Skift Take: Hotel companies are betting big on the smaller towns in India. With spiritual tourism accounting for 60% of the domestic tourism, the segment is likely to drive the growth in the Indian hospitality industry for the next few years.
Speaker: Lauren Fernandez - CEO & Founder, Full Course
Companies all over the world, including Marriot International and Hilton Worldwide, are aware of the value of including DEI in their talent acquisition strategy. However, despite these initiatives, there is still plenty that the hospitality sector can do to promote DEI. When comparing the hospitality industries in India, Iraq, the UK, and the US, you will see that there is a consistent underrepresentation of persons from different ethnic, gender, and disability origins across all levels of the i
Lodging
JUNE 24, 2024
Meyer Jabara Hotels (MJH) is invested in technology—so much so that the company is taking on the role of technology support, help desk, and implementation for its portfolio of 32 hotels plus any other properties needing IT assistance on a project basis. With the goal of enabling guests and staff to communicate at the speed of business or faster, the hotel owner and third-party manager will design, procure, install, certify, and monitor each property’s network […] The post Meyer Jabara Hote
Hospitality Net
JUNE 24, 2024
Percipia, a hospitality telephony and technology solutions company, today announced an integration to OfficeSuite UC® from Windstream. This joint partnership will provide hoteliers with cloud calling capabilities for in-room hospitality phones powered by OfficeSuite UC while property management system interfacing runs on Percipia’s Parallax middleware engine.OfficeSuite UC is an award-winning and market-leading cloud-based unified communications platform that streamlines information sharing and
Lodging
JUNE 24, 2024
Marriott Bonvoy and Starbucks announced a new collaboration offering distinctive benefits to loyalty members. Marriott Bonvoy members and Starbucks Rewards U.S. members who link loyalty accounts will have the opportunity to earn more Stars toward free beverages, food, and more at Starbucks, and Marriott Bonvoy points that can be redeemed at Marriott Bonvoy’s more than 30 brands and 10,000 global destinations as well as for Marriott Bonvoy Moments experiences.
Hospitality Net
JUNE 24, 2024
xnPOS and Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, announce their new partnership whereby xnPOS is fully integrated with Adyen offering hoteliers the benefit of Adyen’s complete end-to-end payments solution and combined data & financial management in the same technology platform. The integration of xnPOS to Adyen supports all forms of payment including Pay@Counter, Pay@Table and e-commerce for transactions processed by xnPOS GO, the QR based guest self-or
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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.
Lodging
JUNE 24, 2024
Hospitality TV leader LG Electronics announced that it has developed integrated Google Cast casting capabilities for LG smart hotel TVs. Hyatt is working with LG in the hopes of becoming the first hospitality brand to enable the deployment of these new integrated LG smart hotel TVs later this year. Hyatt through SONIFI, a casting partner that provides casting to more than 500,000 industry rooms, is assisting in the LG-Google next-generation casting solution for new and […] The post LG Hote
Hospitality Net
JUNE 24, 2024
Located in the heart of the Croatian coastal town, Keight Hotel Opatija marks the brand’s presence in 40 countries and territories and will offer guests a secluded retreat with picturesque surroundings
Lodging
JUNE 24, 2024
Hotel Communication Network (HCN) will reveal a new AI-powered in-room tablet that will radically change the way hotel guests request services, communicate their needs, place F&B orders from local restaurants, and more via voice commands in multiple languages. AiMe, an AI Concierge, will be on display June 25 to 27 at the Charlotte Convention Center in Booth #3836.
Hospitality Net
JUNE 24, 2024
Radisson Blu Hotel & Residences, Cagayan de Oro will become the first internationally-branded property and 5-star hotel in the Philippines’ North Mindanao region.
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Social Hospitality
JUNE 24, 2024
It’s vital to keep up with current social media trends. In addition to things like niche platforms and personalization, another trend that might impact your social media strategy is regular algorithm changes. These updates can significantly impact how your followers share and view content. This, in turn, affects your engagement, reach, and overall effectiveness on various platforms.
Hospitality Net
JUNE 24, 2024
Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®), the global association for finance and technology professionals in the hospitality industry, has announced the strategic acquisition of several prominent hospitality industry brands. The acquisition includes Hospitality Upgrade, Hotel-Online, the CIO Summit and the Executive Vendor Summit, further solidifying HFTP’s position as a leading provider of resources and events for the global hospitality community.
Hotel Business
JUNE 24, 2024
The Hospitality Women’s Innovation Council (WIC) , a working group of hotel brand executives, managers and innovators, found that only one in five hotel professionals believe the current tech stack is sufficient to help hoteliers achieve efficiencies and cost savings and take care of guests adequately. Meanwhile, 91% of survey respondents indicated that better collaboration among technology companies around integrations should be improved, and 86% said better integration processes would encourag
Hospitality Net
JUNE 24, 2024
Only 21 percent of hotel professionals think current hotel technology is doing a good job for hotels and guests - 91 percent see better collaboration among providers as the key to meaningful improvement.
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Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.
Hotel Designs
JUNE 24, 2024
Hotel Designs Product watch: Naturalmat launches new bed design The Ashford Product watch: Naturalmat launches new bed design The Ashford This month, Naturalmat unveils its newest bed design, The Ashford. This latest addition to the collection exudes contemporary sophistication with its slim and sleek design, seamlessly blending a chic modern form with unrivalled comfort… The Ashford ’s slim bed base makes it the company’s most minimalist offering to date.
Hospitality Net
JUNE 24, 2024
June 24, 2024 – Atlanta – WorldVia Travel Group, a collection of leading travel companies in the United States, has shared select, current and upcoming travel trends. These trends provide insights into a selection of the dynamic changes and evolving preferences shaping the travel industry, offering valuable guidance for travel advisors and travel agency owners planning their strategies and services to meet the shifting needs of modern travelers.
Hotel Business
JUNE 24, 2024
Nestled in downtown Tampa, FL, Hotel Flor, Tapestry Collection by Hilton, honors its bustling location with curated, intentional design. Its F&B location, The Dan, challenges the norms with whimsy and charm. Jenn Lindner, design director, Jacki Arena Interiors, gives us a look inside: What inspired The Flor’s design? The Flor’s primary focus was preserving the building’s original character.
Hospitality Net
JUNE 24, 2024
Fairmas, a leading provider of financial planning, controlling, and management reporting software for the hospitality industry, is thrilled to announce its participation in HITEC 2024, the world’s largest and longest-running hospitality technology event. The event will take place from June 24-27 at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
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