Skift Blog
AUGUST 19, 2024
Skift Take: The notable lack of New York, Tokyo, and Delhi in the top 20 highlights the difference between a city's international standing and a given airport's nonstop connectivity.
Lodging
AUGUST 19, 2024
Marriott International, Inc. announced a long-term licensing agreement with Sonder Holdings Inc., which is expected to add over 9,000 rooms to Marriott’s portfolio by year-end and approximately 1,500 rooms to its pipeline. Under this agreement, Sonder’s open and pipeline portfolio, which primarily consists of apartment-style accommodations in urban markets, is expected to be added to the Marriott system under a new collection called “Sonder by Marriott Bonvoy.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Skift Blog
AUGUST 19, 2024
Skift Take: Sonder has recently struggled, having not been profitable since going public in a blank check deal in 2022. The heft of Marriott's distribution system will boost the company. Marriott will gain access to Sonder's units, many of which are roomy apartment-style lodging and in neighborhoods where it's hard to build hotels.
Lodging
AUGUST 19, 2024
NORWALK, Connecticut—Shatterproof announced its 2025 Shatterproof Hospitality Heroes honoree, Amanda Hite. Hite is the president of STR, a CoStar Group company, and is being recognized for her courage and commitment to raising awareness of substance use disorders and ending addiction stigma. She will be honored during the eighth annual Hospitality Heroes Reception, which will be held during the Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS) on January 29, 2025.
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!
Skift Blog
AUGUST 19, 2024
Skift Take: Sonder gets new marketing and distribution power through the licensing deal. While a positive, this isn't a panacea for Sonder's fundamental problems.
Hospitality Net
AUGUST 19, 2024
Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR) announced its 9,000th property with the opening of The St. Regis Longboat Key Resort. Situated on an expansive 18 acres in Longboat Key, Florida, this luxury beachfront property features 168 exquisite guestrooms, including 26 suites, and offers breathtaking ocean views, outstanding culinary experiences, and world-class amenities, all reflective of the St.
Hotel Sales Focus brings together the best content for hotel sales and marketing professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Hospitality Net
AUGUST 19, 2024
The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts celebrated the graduation of the Leela Leadership Development Programme (LLDP) Class of 2024 at The Leela Palace New Delhi on 5 August (Monday).
Skift Blog
AUGUST 19, 2024
Skift Take: Tiqets CEO Laurens Leurink says sales of travel experiences are booming. Gen Z and Millennials want cultural engagement, not checklist sightseeing. So with some help from AI, Tiqets has recently quadrupled its sales without adding staff.
Hospitality Net
AUGUST 19, 2024
Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts, a globally recognised symbol of Swiss hospitality excellence, is delighted to announce the opening of Swissôtel Nusantara in Indonesia’s new capital city, Nusantara, East Kalimantan. Embracing the brand’s ethos, ’Life is a Journey - Live It Well,’ this new property offers an unrivalled experience, seamlessly blending premium hospitality, comfort, and purpose-driven living.
Skift Blog
AUGUST 19, 2024
Skift Take: Mallorca authorities are trying to respond to local frustrations with mass tourism by cracking down on short-term rentals.
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
Hospitality Net
AUGUST 19, 2024
Branded residences, one of the fastest-growing sectors in hospitality, will take center stage at FHS World (30 September to 2 October), with a dedicated, full-day conference led by one of the sector’s leading innovators Accor One Living.
Lodging
AUGUST 19, 2024
Located on the scenic Hammock Coast, the historic city of Georgetown is home to a new boutique property, The George Hotel. Housed in the former Georgetown Times building, the property represents a couple of “firsts”: the first hotel to open and operate on the city’s historic Front Street in more than 50 years, as well as The Indigo Road’s first property to open in the company’s home state of South Carolina.
Hospitality Net
AUGUST 19, 2024
Since opening their first bar in 2016, they have launched several new venues across Guangzhou and Shenzhen. They also run one of China’s top Food & Beverage (F&B) consultancy firms and have received major accolades, with their bar named Mainland China’s best in both 2023 and 2024.
Hotel Management
AUGUST 19, 2024
Accommodation Australia incoming CEO James Goodwin has attended his first AA national board meeting in Canberra, alongside new Board Vice-Chair Emma Hynes. The board met in recent weeks at Hotel Realm in Canberra for the first time since the resignation of CEO Michael Johnson and Vice-Chair Sean Hunt of Marriott. “It was great to have this meeting in Canberra, close to the politicians where a lot of our work on behalf of members is done,” said Board Chair, David Mansfield “It was also great to h
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.
Hospitality Net
AUGUST 19, 2024
Heimstaden and Core Hospitality have signed a 15-year contract on the lease and operations of the hotel "A Place to" in Esbjerg, Denmark. The hotel will also expand from 117 guest rooms to 214 guest rooms and will change its name as it seeks to partner with an international brand.
Lodging
AUGUST 19, 2024
CHICAGO, Illinois—Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced that an affiliate of Hyatt has completed the sale of the 1,641-room Hyatt Regency Orlando and adjacent 45 acres of land to affiliates of RIDA Development Corporation and an Ares Management Real Estate fund for approximately $1.07 billion while retaining a long-term management agreement under the Hyatt Regency brand.
Hospitality Net
AUGUST 19, 2024
Transaction volume reached €122M in the first half of 2024, 27% less than in H1 2023. This was primarily due to the lack of hotel assets for sale in the CEE region, geopolitical uncertainty, and the high cost of financing. However, this has changed in recent months. Several properties are in various stages of disposition, and this, combined with continued performance growth, improved access to debt, and rising investor interest, is expected to boost volumes in the next 12 months.
Lodging
AUGUST 19, 2024
WASHINGTON—American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) Interim President and CEO Kevin Carey released the following statement after the General Services Administration (GSA) announced its fiscal year 2025 per diem rates for federal workers. GSA’s per diem guidelines govern reimbursement for federal employees’ lodging and meal expenses for official government travel.
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.
Hospitality Net
AUGUST 19, 2024
Each year, HVS researches and compiles development costs from our database of actual hotel construction budgets. This source provides the basis for our illustrated total development costs per room and per product type.
Are Morch
AUGUST 19, 2024
Do you like receiving print marketing? Does anyone? I find it annoying, impersonal, and environmentally irresponsible. The nail in the coffin for print marketing was an all too familiar term of artificial intelligence (AI). Massive search engines like Bing, Ask, and Google use AI to process billions of clicks a day and build a site […] The post The Most Effective and Eco-Friendly Marketing for Your Dollar appeared first on Are Morch, Digital Transformation Coach.
Hospitality Net
AUGUST 19, 2024
The Luxury Group by Marriott International, with an unrivaled portfolio of eight hotel brands including The Ritz-Carlton, Ritz-Carlton Reserve, Bvlgari Hotels & Resorts, St. Regis Hotels & Resorts, EDITION, The Luxury Collection, JW Marriott, and W Hotels, today announces Luxury Group Dining Series, a multi-city regional dining series commencing from September to November featuring six handpicked hotels including The Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo, The St.
Are Morch
AUGUST 19, 2024
Getting educated on using a search engine optimization (SEO) company or agency is very wise. SEO has kicked in the door of online marketing and set all-new standards for key business growth and marketing concerns. If you are not using SEO now, you will, and it is highly likely your competition will or is already. […] The post S.E.O. and Y.O.U.; What Can Search Engine Optimization Do For Your Brand?
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
Hospitality Net
AUGUST 19, 2024
Shatterproof, a national nonprofit organization and a leader in improving the way the healthcare system addresses and treats substance use disorders, is proud to announce its 2025 Shatterproof Hospitality Heroes honoree, Amanda Hite. Hite is the president of STR, a CoStar Group company, and is being recognized for her courage and commitment toward raising awareness of substance use disorders and ending addiction stigma.
Hospitality Tech
AUGUST 19, 2024
As the hospitality industry faces fragmentation, Francisco Pérez-Lozao of Amadeus discusses the urgent need for a unified, cloud-native approach to drive revenue and enhance guest experiences.
Hospitality Net
AUGUST 19, 2024
Travelers are squeezing the last drops out of summer as U.S. hotel room demand strengthened year over year (YoY) for the fourth straight week. Occupancy has increased in three of those weeks with growth softened by a small supply increase. Average daily rate (ADR) has continued to rise, pushing RevPAR gains for the past four weeks, but at a rate below the level of inflation.
gcommerce
AUGUST 19, 2024
Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales are often the biggest revenue-producing periods for hotels. With increasing competition and more companies fighting for your guests' wallets in 2024, planning your Black Friday strategy early is key to having a successful weekend (or week) once November rolls around. Here, our marketing and search teams will share some of the best tips and tricks for making the most of Black Friday.
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.
Hospitality Net
AUGUST 19, 2024
The intersection of artificial intelligence and the hospitality and travel industries heralds a transformative era characterized by unprecedented operational efficiencies and enhanced customer experiences. Ernst & Young’s analysis underscores how AI is reshaping these sectors, from optimizing resource management to personalizing guest services. Companies like Mercan Hotels are leveraging AI for internal communication improvements and marketing, while addressing the challenges of data quality and
Hotel Designs
AUGUST 19, 2024
Hotel Designs The multifunctional magic of BoConcept beds The multifunctional magic of BoConcept beds In the ever-evolving world of hospitality, staying ahead of trends and guest expectations is crucial – one of the most significant trends making waves in hotel design is the incorporation of multifunctional furniture, particularly beds… BoConcept has consistently pioneered innovative designs that enhance both aesthetic appeal and functional efficiency.
Hospitality Net
AUGUST 19, 2024
ATLANTA, Georgia, United States, August 19, 2024 - Shiji, the global hospitality technology innovator, and FreedomPay, a leading provider of secure commerce technology, have announced a partnership that marks a significant expansion into the Mexican market. This partnership underscores Shiji and FreedomPay’s commitment to improving staff and guest experiences in the hospitality businesses across Latin America, aligning with the industry’s shift towards smoother payments and payment management.
Hotel Business
AUGUST 19, 2024
This year My Place Hotels is celebrating 10 years of franchising. Hotel Business caught up with Ryan Rivett , the company’s president/CEO, to talk about the accomplishment. This year marks 10 years of franchising for My Place. What are your thoughts on this milestone? Well, in many ways it’s just a number. Over the past 10 years of our growth and development into the franchise system we are today, the world has changed so frequently and dynamically that it really doesn’t feel like 10 years.
Advertisement
The race to 100% digital is on. With the restaurant industry still in the early innings of its digital transformation, brands need an airtight strategy when it comes to building out their tech stack. Download the buyer’s guide to learn where to prioritize your efforts and get the most out of every investment.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
347 
Let's personalize your content