Lodging
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
As hotels and hospitality businesses grapple with the evolving cybersecurity threat landscape, one of the most massive challenges they face is ransomware. Potentially causing data loss and costly recovery procedures, ransomware is a cybersecurity attack that encrypts files, making them inaccessible without a decryption key that only the attacker holds.
Skift Blog
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Skift Take: Taking place in Delhi on March 19-20, Skift India Summit will be the premier destination for insightful discussions, networking opportunities, market trend insights and inspiration that will empower industry professionals to stay ahead in the region’s ever-evolving landscape.
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Hotel Management
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Respected hotel industry leader David Mansfield has been appointed as the new Chair of the National Board of peak accommodation body, Accommodation Australia (AA). Elected at a board meeting in Sydney on Tuesday, Mansfield – who is Managing Director of The Ascott Limited for Australia – replaces outgoing Leanne Harwood, who announced her resignation last month.
Hospitality Net
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
TIME Hotels, renowned for its management expertise and headquartered in the UAE, has officially launched its latest venture, the TIME Ruba Hotel & Suites, in Makkah. This opening is poised to enhance the city’s hospitality offerings, providing guests with an unparalleled mix of luxury, comfort, and cultural immersion.
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
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
LODGING brings you the first installment of our three-part Ownership Series, providing owner perspectives on various hot topics and industry trends. For this installment, Vinay Patel of Fairbrook Hotels and Mitesh Amin of KARA Hospitality discuss some of the key benefits of operating within the extended-stay segment and share their model for success.
Skift Blog
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Skift Take: San Francisco has been somewhat of a poster child for urban decay. The city's new tourism chief has a lot of work to do to change that image.
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Hospitality Net
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Oulton Hall Hotel, Spa & Golf Resort has recently made a significant investment in upgrading the bedroom suites in the historic hall - allowing the hotel to provide sanctuary for a variety of discerning guests.
Lodging
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
About three years ago, Oracle Hospitality acquired Nor1 to deliver an AI (artificial intelligence) solution for real-time pricing and inventory management—specifically to create ancillary offers to guests—and embedded that tool into Oracle’s property management system, OPERA Cloud. Despite the availability of sophisticated AI tools, Jason Bryant, vice president of Nor1, considers the hotel industry to be in the early stages of adopting them, but expects the usage to ramp up exponentially in the
Skift Blog
FEBRUARY 17, 2024
Skift Take: More renewable jet fuel companies are raising money to develop products, but a lot more money is needed to reach the industry's zero-emissions goals by 2050.
Hotel Management
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Global hospitality company Accor achieved a record result in 2023 with earnings reaching over €1 billion for the first time in its history. Announcing its full-year results on Thursday, Accor revealed that EBITDA grew 49% compared to the previous year to €1,003 million, while RevPAR was up 23% like for like, and revenue was up 20% to €5,056 million.
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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
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Established Cairns’ hotel owner, Taisei Kanko Australia Pty Limited, announced today that their Cairns hotel has relaunched as a self-managed, independent hotel to be branded as Cairns Harbourside Hotel.
Lodging
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
MCLEAN, Virginia—Hilton shared a year of growth in the Caribbean and Latin America (CALA), entering new markets in 2023. Last year, Hilton opened 19 new hotels and approximately 4,000 rooms in the Caribbean and Latin America, representing more rooms added in the region than in any other year in the company’s history. Hilton’s CALA portfolio is comprised of more than 220 hotels and over 40,000 rooms spanning 15 brands and 29 countries and territories.
Skift Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Skift Take: With fraud a substantial problem in online travel these days, Airbnb is undertaking the mammoth task of trying to verify listings. The process is easier for professional hosts.
Hotel Management
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Leisure Accommodation Collective (LA Co) is gearing up to launch a hybrid hotel brand later this year with the opening of two properties in Australia and New Zealand. Drifter, a design-led and experience-focused lifestyle brand targeting free-spirited travellers of all ages, will debut in Byron Bay and Christchurch in mid-2024, with two more properties slated to open in 2025.
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
Anthony Cole Training
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
One of the most important skills that a salesperson needs to possess is the ability to engage in what I refer to as “appropriate and respectful confrontation” with a prospect…at least when the need arises. For the sake of simplicity, let’s just refer to that as the ability to push back.
Lodging
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
DALLAS, Texas—The commercial real estate lending market demonstrated signs of stabilization at the end of 2023, with borrowing costs appearing to have peaked, even as transaction activity remains subdued, according to the latest research from CBRE. The CBRE Lending Momentum Index, which tracks the pace of CBRE-originated commercial loan closings in the United States, increased by 1.0 percent from Q3 2023—marking the first quarterly increase since Q1 2022.
Skift Blog
FEBRUARY 18, 2024
Skift Take: Hyatt's brand muse Crystal Vinisse Thomas reveals the thinking behind her seven-figure marketing campaign for luxury lifestyle brand Andaz.
Hotel Management
FEBRUARY 18, 2024
Salter Brothers will debut its global brand Ardour Hotels and Estates at its newly acquired South Australia property , Kingsford The Barossa, in the third quarter of 2024. Announcing settlement of the acquisition on Monday February 19, Salter Brothers said Ardour’s brand story of ‘Celebrated Luxury” strongly aligns with the property, which will be known as Ardour Kingsford Barossa.
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Hospitality Net
FEBRUARY 18, 2024
Recently, both Hilton and Marriott announced their 2023 financial results. Good news all around. What peaked my interest was the pipeline (contracted and under development hotel rooms) for each hotel chain: 3,270 properties with 462,400 rooms for Hilton and 536,000 rooms for Marriott.
Lodging
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
There are numerous barriers to hotel ownership—like industry awareness, access to capital, and market knowledge—causing groups of entrepreneurs to be underrepresented in hospitality. To create spaces that encourage, promote, and assist these groups in becoming hoteliers, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts created two programs: Women Own the Room and BOLD (Black Owners and Lodging Developers).
Skift Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Skift Take: Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel said the company would appeal the Spanish competition authority's $530 million draft decision if it becomes permanent.
Hotel Management
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Ahead of the inaugural AHICE South East Asia, which takes place in Singapore on February 27-29, JLL Hotels and Hospitality Group CEO APAC, Nihat Ercan, discusses the latest developments in hospitality across the region. In 2023, two consistent headlines emerged. Firstly, the headwinds faced by the commercial real estate industry attracted substantial attention.
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
FEBRUARY 18, 2024
Hospitality is built on a central pillar - providing an exceptional experience for guests. From countryside pubs with rooms to city-centre hotel groups, the focus of every good hotelier is the guest. In today’s increasingly digital world, hotel technology must ensure the guest experience is also at the heart of the platforms created to service the industry.
Lodging
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
WASHINGTON—The U.S. hotel industry reported lower performance results month over month, according to January 2024 data from CoStar. January 2024 Percentage change from January 2023: Occupancy: 51.9 percent (down 1.7 percent)ADR: $146.33 (up 2.7 percent)RevPAR: $75.99 (up 0.9 percent) Among the Top 25 Markets, Oahu Island experienced the highest occupancy level (79.0 percent), which was up 6.2 percent year over year.
Skift Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Skift Take: Accor's top boss said during a Thursday earnings call that the hotel group will benefit as the middle class expands in India and beyond in the next several years.
Hotel Business
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
According to SOCi Inc. ‘s AI Marketing Transformation Index, Part IV, 52% of U.S. digital marketing professionals list privacy as their top concern regarding the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) for hotels. SOCi’s commissioned study of more than 300 digital marketers provides further understanding of AI utilization in marketing and future plans for its use.
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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
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Louvre Hotels Group, the second-largest player in the hotel industry in France and Europe, with flagship brands such as Campanile, Kyriad and Première Classe, is implementing a strategic plan aiming, by 2028, to position each of its brands among the top 3 performing ones in the segments and countries where the group operates.
Lodging
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
WASHINGTON—U.S. hotel performance increased from the previous week, while year-over-year comparisons remained mixed, according to CoStar’s latest data through Feb. 17, 2024. U.S. Hotel Performance February 11-17, 2024 Percentage change from comparable week in 2023:Occupancy: 59.2 percent (down 2.5 percent)ADR: $162.24 (up 4.2 percent)RevPAR: $96.10 (up 1.6 percent) Among the Top 25 Markets, Boston (up 14.6 percent to 64.7 percent) and New Orleans (up 14.6 percent to 75.7 percent) matched for the
Skift Blog
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Skift Take: Saudi Arabia is investing billions into its tourism ecosystem. How can partners get involved? In this episode of the Skift Travel Spotlight podcast, executives from Riyadh Air and Dida Travel discuss investments in the nation’s travel infrastructure.
eHotelier
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Managing a profitable hotel requires a careful eye on your inventory. You don’t want to sell your rooms too early at reduced rates because such spillage can drain your revenue. However, spoilage, overbooking, and overselling can also wreck your profits.
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