Skift Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Skift Take: The colossal Ryanair machine relies on hyper-efficiency and a ruthless scrutiny of costs. By its own admission, Ryanair was 'over-scheduled, over-crewed, and over-costed' this summer. It won't let this happen again.
Lodging
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
CHEVY CHASE, Maryland—PM Hotel Group and Sightline Hospitality announced a strategic merger. This partnership marks a development in PM Hotel Group’s growth trajectory, specifically within PM Hotel Group’s lifestyle hotel division Modus by PM Hotel Group, complementing the organization’s verticals of lifestyle, differentiated hospitality, and experiential travel.
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Skift Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Skift Take: Agreement after a 53-day strike is good news for Boeing and its airline customers, but don't expect the planemaker's problems to disappear overnight. This will be a long-haul recovery.
Hospitality Net
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Strong loyalty programs help hotel brands lower customer acquisition costs, increase direct-to-consumer access, and offset occupancy shortfalls during shoulder periods and weaker economic conditions. After analyzing publicly available data from five large hotel companies, we found that while growth in several key metrics slowed in 2023, loyalty members’ overall contribution to occupancy increased, though marginal contribution per member contracted.
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
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Skift Take: Design Hotels is a Marriott brand that isn't quite a Marriott brand. It's more like an exclusive hotel club where 60% of owners have never run a boutique before. New boss Stijn Oyen is fine-tuning its strategy.
Lodging
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
DALLAS, Texas—U.S. travelers would rather drive than fly this holiday season as they seek familiar, flexible, and budget-friendly travel options. New data from Motel 6 and Studio 6 reveals that over half of those traveling to celebrate winter holidays this year will hit the road to their destination (51 percent) rather than take to the sky (13 percent).
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Hospitality Net
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Register your team and participate live, or view the recording, of Doug Kennedy’s next 40-minute training webcast scheduled for Friday, November 15, from Noon – 12:45pm EST.
Skift Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Skift Take: IndiGo will be the only carrier in the country other than the Air India Group to offer business class. But it's not giving up on the low prices that made it popular.
Hospitality Net
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Pyramid Global Hospitality announces the strategic merger of the company’s European division, Hamilton Pyramid Europe, with Axiom Hospitality. The two hotel management companies are combining to create the UK and Continental Europe’s hotel and resort management company of choice for the region’s leading hotel sector investors.
Skift Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Skift Take: Choice Hotels is adapting its business strategy because it believes the future of travel involves longer stays, Boomers prefering premium brands, and more trips built around sports and music events.
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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
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
To support its growing portfolio of hotel brands, independents, conference centers, and state park lodging, Regency Hotel Management has selected Silverware to implement point-of-sale systems across its 82-property enterprise. With the most advanced mobile features in its POS platform, Silverware is bringing innovative table management, mobile payments, property-wide ordering and more to Regency guests.
Skift Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Skift Take: Singapore Airlines already boasts one of the world’s most exclusive passenger planes. After six years of development, it’s about to take things to a whole new level.
Hospitality Net
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
We have all been there. Call it the rise of populism, the growth of grass roots movements, or the increasing recognition of environmental change, NIMBY –is impacting us in both our personal and “hotel” lives.
Skift Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Skift Take: Gangwal’s appointment marks the end of a tense battle with activist investor Elliott, which had long been pushing for significant leadership changes at Southwest.
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
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
The launch of real-time web search capabilities in ChatGPT marks an exciting new chapter in the way we search for information online. While Google has been the default for finding quick answers, ChatGPT’s web browsing introduces unique advantages that are poised to reshape the landscape of travel planning and hotel marketing.
Skift Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Skift Take: As it seeks to deepen its market share and broaden its portfolio, Brigade Hotel's IPO plans highlights not just the company’s growth potential, but also the broader optimism surrounding India’s hospitality industry.
Hospitality Net
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Mews, the industry-leading hospitality cloud, has announced the acquisition of Quotelo, marking its first product acquisition in France. This milestone comes on the heels of Mews surpassing 1,000 French customers, further solidifying its presence and commitment to innovation in the region.
Lodging
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
SAN ANTONIO, Texas—The Hospitality Show wrapped up its second annual event at The Henry B. González Convention Center with three days of insights, networking opportunities, and solutions designed to elevate the hospitality industry. The Hospitality Show witnessed a year-over-year growth attracting 4,800 attendees and 460 vendors, marking a 26 percent increase in attendance and a 43 percent growth in vendors.
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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.
Hospitality Net
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
The 226-room adults-only hotel, located on the southern coast of Tenerife, offers travelers the opportunity to explore local attractions and activities while enjoying the conveniences of an all-inclusive hotel.
Skift Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Skift Take: The U.S. has made a lot of progress at removing barriers to travel. The best thing the new president can do is to keep knocking them down.
Hospitality Net
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
With the 2025 budgeting season in hospitality underway, it’s not too late to compare marketing spend in hospitality to the broader economy. As per Gartner CMO Spend Survey, the average 2024 marketing budgets are 7.7% of total revenue, the lowest post-pandemic spend.
Lodging
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
According to the Q3 2024 U.S. Hotel Construction Pipeline Trend Report from Lodging Econometrics (LE), at the close of the quarter, the five markets with the largest hotel construction pipelines were led by Dallas with a record-high of 194 projects and 22,803 rooms, followed by Atlanta with a record-high 166 projects accounting for 19,174 rooms, Nashville with a record-high 130 projects and 16,966 rooms, Phoenix with 123 projects/15,999 rooms, and Austin with a record-high 119 […] The post
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
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®) has announced its 2024–2025 HFTP Global Executive Committee and Board of Directors, effective November 1, 2024.
Lodging
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
CHICAGO, Illinois—Hyatt Hotels Corporation reported Q3 2024 results. Highlights include: Mark S. Hoplamazian, president and CEO, Hyatt, said, “We reported solid third-quarter results, with gross fee revenues reaching $268 million. Our pipeline reached a new record of approximately 135,000 rooms, increasing 10 percent year-over-year, and World of Hyatt membership expanded to a record of 51 million members, growing a remarkable 22 percent year-over-year.
Hospitality Net
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
U.S. revenue per available room (RevPAR) grew 9.3% year over year on nearly equal gains in occupancy and average daily rate (ADR). Occupancy reached 69%, up 3 percentage points (ppts), and ADR increased 4.6%. The occupancy gain was the largest since earlier this year with 82% of the 171 STR-defined U.S. markets reporting occupancy growth, the most of the past 91 weeks.
eHotelier
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
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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.
Hospitality Net
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
There are over 55,900 lodging properties in the United States, according to the American Hotel and Lodging Association. Some of the largest hotel chains own, run, or manage thousands of properties.
Hotel Business
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Griffin Hotel Management LLC , a hospitality company spanning multiple generations, has merged into Meyer Jabara Hotels (MJH). Griffin is transitioning 14 assets to the MJH umbrella, and when combined with other deals currently in the 2024 pipeline, the hotel ownership and management company will reach 50 hotels by Q1 2025. Griffin executives James Kirkland and Jay Fishman are taking on new roles at MJH, with Kirkland, Griffin’s CEO, assuming the role of SVP, operations – Western Region, and Fis
Hospitality Net
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Maestro, the hotel industry’s leading Web Browser-based cloud and on-premises All-In-One property-management system, teamed with preeminent commercial strategy platform LodgIQ to improve operations, communications and business forecasting at the Olde Mill Inn in Basking Ridge, N.J. Integration between Maestro’s PMS and LodgIQ’s AI platform is enabling the hotel’s operations team to access property information on the go, maximize profits, streamlining efficiencies, and unburden staff.
Hospitality Tech
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
With targeted data and industry expertise, Vertical AI is transforming the landscape for businesses seeking a competitive edge in niche markets.
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