eHotelier
OCTOBER 17, 2023
By understanding the motivations behind reviews and actively seeking guest feedback, you can motivate your guests to share their positive experiences online, ultimately boosting your bookings.
Lodging
OCTOBER 19, 2023
While today’s hotel guests largely use electronic access cards to enter assigned guestrooms, hundreds to thousands of mechanical keys are essentially used daily on hotel properties. Housekeeping staff use keys for access to guestrooms to perform job duties. Hotel security, maintenance staff, and hired contractors also use keys for access to equipment, maintenance, supply rooms, fleet vehicles, and guestroom emergencies.
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Skift Blog
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Skift Take: This worldwide caution for Americans to stay alert in tourist spots, even often safe European capitals, is quite notable.
Skift Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Skift Take: Google has been fined billions of dollars in the European Union for similar practices that are allegedly happening in the U.S.
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Skift Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Skift Take: The market is skeptical that Choice's hostile takeover bid for Wyndham will be successful. The Skift Travel 200 sheds light on the hotel sector and the thinking behind this offer.
Skift Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Skift Take: The Chinese traveler's slow return continues to impact global travel. But adventure tourism operators are optimistic they'll be parachuting into newly opened group travel countries like Australia.
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Skift Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Skift Take: Embrace the future of aviation through insights, innovation, and exploration of future trends during this year's Skift Aviation Forum. You won't want to miss this jam-packed event.
Skift Blog
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Skift Take: American had a lackluster third quarter. Executives say its on the cusp of big profits ahead.
Skift Blog
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Skift Take: The real estate market might be tight, but investors' purse strings are still loose — Srividya Kalyanaraman Read the Complete Story On Skift
Skift Blog
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Skift Take: Dubai's grand plan to convert tourists into residents has worked, at least on the Russians. Russia travel into Dubai is slowing down for the first time in months.
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Skift Blog
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Skift Take: Hilton will simplify its process for booking small events and meetings, too. All told, it's a promising sign that hoteliers are finally taking the pain points of small and medium-sized businesses seriously.
Lodging
OCTOBER 19, 2023
ARLINGTON, Virginia—Knowland and Amadeus presented the metrics from the companies’ Hospitality Group and Business Performance Index. The third quarter of this year shows the top 25 U.S. markets have recovered 99.1 percent for group business compared to the same time in 2019. Group bookings are calculated using occupancy and average daily rate (ADR).
Skift Blog
OCTOBER 15, 2023
Skift Take: In September, Bob van den Oord became CEO of Langham, a luxury hotel group. In his first interview in the role, he talks about the group's multi-brand strategy to double its property count.
Skift Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Skift Take: It's like a low-cost airline version of "Game of Thrones," but with more fees and less legroom.
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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
Skift Blog
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Skift Take: Trojena for skiing, Soudah Peaks for luxury housing and now Leyja for space-age hotels, Saudi Arabia continues to develop its mountains for tourism.
Skift Blog
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Skift Take: Loyalty programs are big business for airlines, with companies and their employees carefully weighing the perks of these programs.
Skift Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Skift Take: We web scraped 5,000 hotels across Google to understand the current state of the wider distribution landscape. We found that Google's actions are allowing small OTAs, new entrants and direct sites to compete head-on with the legacy players. Could this mean the end of the duopolistic power long-held by Booking and Expedia?
Skift Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Skift Take: The IHG third quarter results are here. They don't provide much information on financial performance, but they show promising signs of recovery in China.
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Lodging
OCTOBER 19, 2023
NEWTON, Massachusetts—Sonesta International Hotels Corporation announced the grand openings of four new Sonesta Simply Suites locations: “The addition of four new Sonesta Simply Suites hotels in four new destinations underscores the demand for extended stay hotel options,” said Keith Pierce, EVP and president franchise and development, Sonesta. “With these hotels, Sonesta has opened over 20 hotels this year.
Lodging
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Today’s traveler has an abundance of lodging choices. With customer loyalty playing an integral role in a hotel’s operations, getting it right can mean all the difference, especially for smaller, boutique brands. When successful, a loyalty program can bring a steady source of referrals, continued stays, and increased spending at the property over time, among other advantages.
Skift Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Skift Take: The Skift Travel Health Index stands at 106 this month, achieving a new record high. However, there is a disparity in the performance of several countries in the Asia Pacific, suggesting that efforts to attract Chinese travelers to nations dependent on inbound tourism may be progressing at a slower pace than anticipated.
Skift Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Skift Take: Premier Inn says it has gained pricing power as 10% of all UK independent hotels have closed in the past few years. More remarkably, it says repeat guests made 86% of its bookings this year. It's a direct booking champ other hoteliers could learn from.
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