Lodging
MARCH 11, 2024
What initially inspired you to get into the hospitality business? My inspiration stems from my family who always embody hospitality and friendliness towards others. Growing up, we often lived in tourist destinations due to my father’s career in civil engineering, and I cherished our vacations together as some of my happiest times. These experiences fueled my desire to bring that same feeling of joy to others.
Skift Blog
MARCH 11, 2024
Skift Take: Amadeus acquired another company earlier this year to expand its biometrics business. Now it's taken the same strategy to expand its payments business.
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Lodging
MARCH 11, 2024
What is your take on diversity and inclusion in today’s hospitality industry? In the hospitality industry, we’re in the business of creating memorable experiences for our guests. We strive to exceed expectations, anticipate needs, and deliver a warm welcome that feels like coming home. While having a beautiful setting and flawless guestrooms is key, the heart of hospitality lies within your team and their ability to deliver friendly, thoughtful service.
Skift Blog
MARCH 11, 2024
Skift Take: There's a worrying trend in American hospitality: Travelers coming to the U.S. from abroad often encounter sloppiness, rudeness, and ineptitude in stereo sound.
Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales & Devyn Blume, Sr. Account Executive
Are you curious about how artificial intelligence is reshaping sales coaching, learning, and development? Join Brendan Sweeney and Devyn Blume of Allego for an engaging new webinar exploring AI's transformative role in sales coaching and performance improvement! Brendan and Devyn will share actionable insights and strategies for integrating AI into coaching and development - ensuring personalized, effective, and scalable training!
Lodging
MARCH 11, 2024
Choice Hotels International‘s exchange offer to acquire the issued and outstanding shares of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts expired. Wyndham issued a letter to shareholders asking for their support of Wyndham’s nominations for their Board of Directors and issued another statement following Choice’s expiration announcement. All of the news from this morning from both companies is below: NORTH BETHESDA, Maryland—Choice Hotels International, Inc. announced the expiration of the exch
Skift Blog
MARCH 11, 2024
Skift Take: It's dead. Choice Hotels International’s hostile buyout offer of rival Wyndham Hotels & Resorts fizzled out because of an effective resistance by Wyndham's board and a lack of interest by Wyndham's shareholders.
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Skift Blog
MARCH 11, 2024
Indoor cameras have been allowed in common areas of homes. They had to be disclosed to guests, visible, and not in private spaces.
Hospitality Net
MARCH 11, 2024
Rosewood Hotel Group, one of the world’s leading global lifestyle and hospitality management groups, continues to expand its global footprint and evolve its four brands – Rosewood Hotels & Resorts®, New World® Hotels & Resorts, Asaya, and Carlyle & Co.; and residential business, Rosewood Residences.
Skift Blog
MARCH 11, 2024
Skift Take: Air travel in India is recovering rapidly, and as the demand is rising, the sector remains underserved. Efforts are being ramped up to improve aviation infrastructure in the country.
Hospitality Net
MARCH 11, 2024
easyHotel wanted to partner with a supplier who was capable of meeting the demands of today’s guest technology by providing an easy to use, fast and reliable WiFi network throughout multiple European locations. Thanks to Wifirst’s "Wifi as a Service" business model, neasyHotel was provided with a tailor-made solution ensuring great WiFi is available while remaining within budget.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
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
Skift Blog
MARCH 11, 2024
Skift Take: With a September deadline looming, Boeing knows it cannot delay the start of these crucial negotiations any further.
Hospitality Net
MARCH 11, 2024
Whitbread PLC, the UK’s largest hotel business and owner of Premier Inn, and its development partner Olympian Homes have secured planning consent from Bristol City Council to redevelop the site of the Bristol City Centre (Haymarket) Premier Inn.
Skift Blog
MARCH 11, 2024
Skift Take: Saudi Arabia is trying to change the negative perceptions held by some international tourists.
Hospitality Net
MARCH 11, 2024
Las Vegas is a city that lives on reinvention to keep drawing ever-larger crowds to this oasis in the desert that, for full transparency, wouldn’t even exist if it weren’t for the entertainment industry. While the world’s entertainment capital started out with gaming, shows and conventions, in recent decades it has also become a culinary mecca and now a world-class sports destination.
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
MARCH 11, 2024
Skift Take: It’s unclear if this investigation is a new inquiry or if it’s related to a $2.5 billion settlement Boeing reached with the DOJ in 2021.
Hospitality Net
MARCH 11, 2024
Revinate’s 2024 Hospitality Benchmark Report has just been released, with a format that is even more engaging. This year’s report offers an in-depth analysis of over 1.8 billion emails and more than 37 million guest reviews from 2023.
Lodging
MARCH 11, 2024
JACKSONVILLE, Florida—AC Hotels by Marriott opened the AC Hotel by Marriott Jacksonville St. Johns Town Center—located within Northeast Florida’s outdoor shopping, dining, and lifestyle destination—and welcomed its first guests on March 6, 2024. The four-story hotel comprises 118 guestrooms; a fitness center; 1,500 square feet of meeting space, including a private boardroom; an activated AC Lounge; and a fresh-air patio, pool, and game space.
Hospitality Net
MARCH 11, 2024
R.D. Olson Construction, an award-winning general contracting firm in California, has announced groundbreaking on Appellation Healdsburg in Healdsburg’s North Village, a partnership between BIA’s Builder of the Year, Comstock Development, Chef Charlie Palmer and Christopher Hunsberger’s newest hotels under the Appellation brand. The resort will be spread across 8 acres in a campus style setting and is scheduled for completion in the summer of 2025.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
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
MARCH 11, 2024
WASHINGTON—American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) Interim President and CEO Kevin Carey released a statement after the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas blocked a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rule to change the way joint-employer status is determined. In its decision, the court also reinstated a 2020 NLRB rule that protects businesses from undue liability for employees over whom they do not have direct control.
Hospitality Net
MARCH 11, 2024
SalesAndCatering.com, a leading provider of sales and catering software solutions, announced today the launch of their new Data Intelligence Suite for STS Cloud. This groundbreaking suite brings advanced data analytics capabilities to the STS Cloud platform, empowering single and multi-property operators with valuable insights that drive informed decision-making and efficiently close more profitable group business.
Hotel Management
MARCH 11, 2024
Choice Hotels International has ended its US$8 billion takeover bid for Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, the business reported on Monday. The exchange offer to acquire all of Wyndham’s issued and outstanding shares expired on Friday March 8. In a statement on Monday, Choice said that it had received support from some Wyndham shareholders, but that it wasn’t sufficient for a deal to be done, particularly given the opposition of Wyndham’s Board of Directors.
Hospitality Net
MARCH 11, 2024
Growth in revenue per available rooms (RevPAR) returned to the U.S. following the previous week’s decrease. Occupancy held somewhat steady, average daily rate (ADR) increased, weekday (Monday-Wednesday) performance grew, and group demand exploded, surpassing both the 2023 and 2019 comparables.
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
eHotelier
MARCH 11, 2024
Modern security is about more than providing padlocks and safes. Instead, seek to integrate advanced security solutions like AI-driven facial recognition and biometric authentication.
Hospitality Net
MARCH 11, 2024
Highlighting the rich cultural heritage of European cuisine, the Indian School of Hospitality (ISH), a preeminent hospitality education institution in the country hosted the EUNIC picnic, a culinary event at its École Ducasse Gurugram campus.
Mews
MARCH 11, 2024
Meet the Mews Localization team Say a virtual hello to the Mews Localization team. Consisting of Wendy, Janka, Max and our Translation Manager, Naomi, we’re a close-knit (though remote-based) group of language specialists nestled within the Mews Product Content tribe.
Hospitality Net
MARCH 11, 2024
US-based space company Above Space, formerly known as Orbital Assembly, is aiming to launch two space stations with tourist accommodation: Voyager Station and Pioneer Station.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
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
MARCH 11, 2024
Hotel Designs Independent Hotel Show Amsterdam – Welcome to Dreamland Independent Hotel Show Amsterdam – Welcome to Dreamland This year visitors to The Independent Hotel Show Amsterdam are encouraged to take a respite from the ordinary and experience a dreamland of trend exploration, product innovation and networking at IHA24… The Independent Hotel Show Amsterdam – the business event for boutique, luxury and independent hotel sector – returns for March 12th and 13th, for the fourth and mos
Hospitality Net
MARCH 11, 2024
In this excerpt from the HSMAI Foundation Special Report: The State of Hotel Sales, Marketing, and Revenue Optimization Talent 2023-2024, we explore the intricate dynamics of the hospitality industry, shaped by demographic trends and evolving workforce paradigms. My review illuminates the industry’s current landscape, characterized by both optimism and challenges as it emerges from the post- COVID-19 era.
Hotel Designs
MARCH 11, 2024
Hotel Designs Hotel Avante – A budget-conscious design with high impact results Hotel Avante – A budget-conscious design with high impact results Hotel Designs caught up with Dan Mazzarini, Principal and Creative Director of BHDM Design, to discuss the balancing act of marrying budget and good design in the JDV by Hyatt’s Hotel Avante in Mountain View, California… Dramatic transformation with a limited budget is a balancing act when it comes to designing hospitality spaces.
Hospitality Net
MARCH 11, 2024
U.S. Travel Association President and CEO Geoff Freeman issued the following statement on the U.S. Senate passage of six government funding bills, which include funding for the office of the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism—following months of persistent advocacy from the U.S. travel industry.
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