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Every Hotelier in Every Role Must Now Understand Technology
Traditionally, aspiring hoteliers enter the industry because they have a passion for service. And we have groomed them as such. But as COVID-19 has so resolutely proven, that time is resolutely over.
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Brand Finance: Hilton remains world’s most valuable brand
The total value of the top 50 most valuable hotel brands has decreased 33% year-on-year, down from $70.2 billion in 2020 to $47.4 billion in 2021, according to brand value consultancy Brand Finance.
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4 Key Takeaways From Skift’s Hospitality and Marketing Summit
Accelerating vaccine efforts this year helped the travel sector turn a corner in major markets like the U.S., leading hotel companies to focus both on recovery and growth opportunities.
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The Death Of Email Marketing As We Know It Is Coming This Fall
Background: Traditional email marketing utilizes remote images that load when viewing an email or invisible tracking pixels to track email opens and gather information from the recipient’s device such as IP address…
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Hotel Labor Costs Are Up Across The Globe. Here’s How to Cope.
The U.S. isn’t the only country having issues filling hotel positions. In the wake of pandemic-induced layoffs and furloughs, properties around the globe are having trouble staffing up.
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Lufthansa to enable vaccination certificates to appear in app
Lufthansa plans to allow German customers to access their vaccination certificates directly from the carrier’s app.
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SiteMinder: June marks six months of growth in hotel bookings globally
Reservation volumes globally have now risen to more than 65% of 2019 levels, well above the 40% seen at this same time last year, according to SiteMinder’s World Hotel Index.
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