4 Simple tips to enhance your online charisma
Effective and illuminating advice for bringing out your best self on the computer screen and engaging the attention of your audience. A must-read for today’s digital professionals.
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4 Simple tips to enhance your online charisma
Effective and illuminating advice for bringing out your best self on the computer screen and engaging the attention of your audience. A must-read for today’s digital professionals.
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UK Government proposes exemption from quarantine for international business travellers
The report of the Global Taskforce on Travel is suggesting that short term visits by international business travellers should be allowed to the UK.
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Accor Takes Full Ownership of sbe Hotel brands
As part of its simplification and asset-light strategy, and with the ambition of accelerating its momentum in the fast-growing lifestyle hospitality sector, Accor has signed binding agreements on a new sbe Group’s ownership structure…
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Operators adjust to unpredictable challenges
Hotel industry operators discussed the challenges they face and will face going forward due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ashford’s juice sommelier brings bubbly to breakfast
Post-lockdown, an a la carte menu replaced the popular breakfast buffet at Ashford Castle, but the food and beverage staff came up with a new amenity that got guests talking.
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Writing your plan for 2021 starts with the PMS
Planning ahead into 2021 amidst ongoing second wave lockdowns, staged reopenings and the dangling carrot that is a vaccine is a doozy…
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Airbnb Considers OTAs as Biggest Competitors, Not Hotels
How Airbnb sees itself matters, not only for the future of the company but how markets and competitors react to such a globally disruptive force that has emerged out of nowhere in the last decade.
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What to Do With Hotels That May Never Reopen Due to COVID
One feature of post-COVID New York City just may be large, hulking, dark buildings, a legacy of the hotels that have or will have closed permanently due to an extreme revenue shortage brought about by lockdowns that deprived them of their clientele…
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Shanghai airport momentarily descends into chaos after workers test positive for Covid-19
Shanghai's biggest international airport momentarily descended into chaos Sunday night, after authorities ordered a mass testing drive in response to a small outbreak of Covid-19 linked to several cargo handlers…
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Europeans are planning 2021 trips despite second wave
European travellers have a stable and positive attitude towards travel but concerns over falling ill at the destination and quarantine restrictions have resulted in postponing more trips to 2021.This is according to the latest report “Monitoring…
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‘Workspitality’: Inspired but complex
As hotels across the world continue to grapple with the pandemic, they are becoming increasingly creative in their approaches…
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How to Boost Guest Loyalty and Profitability Through Pricing?
After finding its way from the airline industry into the world of hotels, hoteliers have continuously improved their pricing strategies, from weekend or seasonal rates via BAR levels to completely open rates…
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China's Hotel Construction Pipeline Continues to Remain Robust at the Q3 2020 Close
According to the latest China Construction Pipeline Trend Report, analysts at Lodging Econometrics (LE) report that China's total hotel construction pipeline remains robust at 3,409 projects/634,119 rooms, up 1% by projects and rooms year-over-year…
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Zurich, Paris and Hong Kong revealed as most expensive cities in the world
How has Covid-19 impacted the world’s most expensive cities? The Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Worldwide Cost of Living survey, compiled in September 2020, discovers how the pandemic has changed the cost of living in 133 cities since the start…
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Tripadvisor says travel remains top of mind for consumers
The travel industry is pinning its hopes of recovery on an innate desire to travel and pent-up demand. New research from Tripadvisor shows 65% of consumers are thinking about their next destination.
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Mind the generation gap! Generational differences in hospitality
A look at how to navigate the generational stereotype minefield that has some hospitality brands scratching their heads…
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5 key ways to avoid cybercrime
As the hospitality industry allocates increasing efforts to ensure guest and employee safety through automation and technology, significant risks are possible…
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New Independent Hotel Group Fights Back on Industry’s Bigger-Is-Better Mentality
Independent hotel owners have a new pandemic survival strategy with the arrival of the Curator Hotel & Resort Collection. The big brands need to address grievances over their high costs in order to remain competitive…
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