Employee Retention "How To" - What you need to know
Oh retention! It’s 2021 and we are witnessing “The Great Resignation” with a mass employee exodus…
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Employee Retention "How To" - What you need to know
Oh retention! It’s 2021 and we are witnessing “The Great Resignation” with a mass employee exodus…
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Current Changes in Remote Work and Opportunities for the Hospitality Industry
The recent global pandemic has certainly accelerated a change in the way we work and interact in companies. However the concept of co-working has been around for some years now. By 2025, 6.5 million people are expected to be working remotely…
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China’s Choppy Hotel Recovery Sounds Warning Alarm for Global Developers
Even though the hotel industries in the U.S. and Europe have outperformed China in recent weeks, developers in these stronger markets should consider how their projects will be impacted by China’s closed borders remaining walled off…
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The 'floating hotel' rusting away in North Korea
It was once an exclusive five-star resort floating directly over Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Today, it sits dilapidated in a North Korean port, a 20-minute drive from the Demilitarized Zone, the restricted area that separates the two Koreas…
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Six trends that will shake up the travel space in 2022
It’s that time of year again, where we look into our crystal ball - with the help of anonymized aggregated travel data and conversations with Amadeus experts - to see what the travel industry can expect next year…
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INTERVIEW: STEPHEN ALDEN, CEO, RAFFLES & ORIENT EXPRESS
Following a remarkable career spanning three decades in the hospitality industry, Stephen Alden was appointed CEO of Raffles and Orient Express in May…
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7 travel marketing trends for 2022
There is never a dull moment when it comes to marketing in general. It’s even more so in the digital marketing sphere where tactics, platforms and features evolve at such a speed it can be difficult to keep pace…
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INTERVIEW: STEFAN RIER & LUKAS RUNGGER, FOUNDERS, NOA
When Stefan Rier and Lukas Rungger first met and bonded over a few beers, they didn’t realise how significant their friendship and shared design ethos would be…
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How to effectively create your hotel’s USP
Has any industry had a more inconvenient pandemic than the tourism industry? Where other businesses’ main issue has been how to manage a remote team, in the early days of March 2020, it felt as though the holiday lights were turned off almost…
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Booking.com Introduces “Native Ads”
For many hotels, the line between “distribution” and “marketing” has always been quite blurry.
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INTERVIEW: AARON KAUPP, REGIONAL VP & GM, THE CARLTON TOWER JUMEIRAH
During what has been the most extensive refurbishment in its history, we caught up with Aaron Kaupp to find out more about the transformation of The Carlton Tower Jumeirah and how lockdown was the perfect timing for the project…
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Sevda Oztetik: the hotel should be eco-friendly and we take it for granted
We talked with Sevda Oztetik about the trend for sustainable tourism and its implementation in hospitality…
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Pandemic Re-Instructs How a Culture of Sales Remains Fundamental to the Revenue Management Process
The novel coronavirus pandemic, which continues to impact our lives, society, and economy in less than predictable waves, does influence hotel asset classes and geographic markets in different ways…
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Hotel Food and Beverage Pivots to Doing 'Less is More' Better
As hotel operations shift to accommodate smaller labor pools and guests at varying comfort levels, hotel restaurants, bars and other food-and-beverage outlets have followed suit.
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A Systematic Approach to Monetizing New Hotel Offerings
There's no doubt, hotels today still rely heavily on occupancy to drive non-room-related revenue at their properties…
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A Systematic Approach to Monetizing New Hotel Offerings
There's no doubt, hotels today still rely heavily on occupancy to drive non-room-related revenue at their properties…
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Aslan Serkan: Tasigo hotels in Kazan. The first design and eco-friendly
Aslan Serkan has a classic career path as a hotelier - from bell boy, whom he worked every summer in Turkey, to the general manager of the Kazan Palace by Tasigo and Neo Kazan Palace by Tasigo hotels in Kazan…
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Hilton Relies on a Former FBI Agent to Keep Its Hotels Out of Harm’s Way
One might say the guiding principle in keeping Hilton’s more than 6,600 hotels safe goes back to Robert Mueller — yes, that Robert Mueller, the former Federal Bureau of Investigation director.
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