Top Voucher Mistakes Hoteliers Make and How to Avoid Them
You’ll find many articles on how to market vouchers correctly. This one is a bit different…
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Top Voucher Mistakes Hoteliers Make and How to Avoid Them
You’ll find many articles on how to market vouchers correctly. This one is a bit different…
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Attracting, managing and retaining the Millennial workforce in hospitality
While the global hospitality industry is expanding rapidly, it is a difficult time for businesses to recruit and retain staff after a distinct labor shortage post-pandemic…
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Top Five Qualities of Successful Hotels
A thriving hotel is something to be proud of. Getting a hotel to a place where it is profitable and successful takes lots of work and careful consideration. Hotels impact guests’ lives in ways that few other businesses do…
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Recruitment Fraud Is A Serious Problem When Hiring Staff
Have you ever been cheated, exploited, manipulated, and jerked around by a candidate who wanted a job in your organization? You may have, but perhaps you don’t know.
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Upscale extended-stay hotels move toward near-term recovery
We knew it would happen sometime. According to The Highland Group’s U.S…
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Europe’s Hotels Risk Lights Out in Energy Crisis Spawned by Ukraine War
European natural gas prices are roughly ten times higher than a year ago. Hotel owners may struggle to pass on to guests added costs for heat and lights, given that they've already been charging higher than average rates…
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4 different ways to make tipping fair in your hotel
For most hotel staff, tipping is one of the best ways to supplement what is often a minimum wage income…
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Going Long for Hotel Longevity Part III: Sleeping on a Pile of Profits
What hotels don’t promote a good night’s sleep nowadays? While the offerings have gone from the erstwhile novel introduction of Westin’s Heavenly Beds to today’s perfunctory pillow concierge, hotels have yet to fully tap this well…
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Hotels Stick to Upbeat Forecasts Even With Concerns Over Cooling Demand
They say smart people can hold two opposing ideas in their minds and still function. So hotel executives must be geniuses, as they watch bookings stay strong while economic worries rise.
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The next-gen revenue management KPIs hoteliers should be tracking
Key performance indicators, better known as KPIs, are touchstones used to measure progress toward the desired outcome.
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DO’s and DON’Ts of Hotel Technology in 2022
As the world emerges from COVID lockdown and adopts contactless as a norm, marketing teams place greater dependency on social media, and technology is used to help provide customer service while at the same time, compensating for the shortage of…
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Income Capitalization Approach – The Gold Standard for Valuing Hotels
According to a recent GlobalData report, 573 deals (including mergers & acquisitions, private equity, and venture financing) were announced in the global travel and tourism (T&T) industry in the first half of 2022, reflecting a 3.1% increase over…
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An employee scorecard to solve labor shortages
A central problem with the hospitality industry’s current labor crisis is that by framing it as a ‘crisis’ we are presuming that the shortage will naturally pass by and labor conditions will eventually return to how they were in 2019…
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Ruby Hotels Introduce 35-Hour Work Week and Give All Employees a Share Of The Profits
The Munich-based Ruby Group is now offering all employees a share in the hotel group’s profits and are also introducing a new 35-hour workweek with no change in salary for employees.
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Translation ROI: How Do We Gauge The Value Of A Good Translation?
In our past Insights articles, we expounded upon the value of good translation and how content that is not only well-translated but can inspire CTA engagement in your marketing and outreach efforts. Indeed, it goes without saying that a customer is…
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The Blueprint to Success: Design With The Employee in Mind
You've seen the renderings (or maybe you've created them) – bustling lobbies and dining rooms, tranquil spas and lanais, immaculate porte-cocheres that look like luxury car showrooms.
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Best practices for effective hotel contact center management
Ever thought about how you could make your hotel contact center work better for you? The hotel contact center plays a key role in converting first-time guests into regular guests and encouraging repeat business from existing patrons…
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At Virtuoso, a microcosm of industry activity
The most colorful description of a company's experience during Covid was conveyed to me by Joss Kent, CEO of AndBeyond, whose safari lodge business' strategy is driven exclusively by its sustainability-related impact objectives…
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