Skift Blog
MARCH 7, 2024
Skift Take: Visa-free entry policies have long been recognized as potent tools for bolstering tourism numbers. China not only acknowledges the potential of this strategy, but is also keen to translate this into tangible results.
Lodging
MARCH 7, 2024
CHICAGO—Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced a collaboration between the Hyatt Regency brand and Future, a personal training platform that connects users with a fitness coach to create customized virtual workouts. Launching at 26 Hyatt Regency hotels and resorts in the United States, the collaboration includes workouts developed by Future trainers that are customized for each hotel and resort’s fitness center and equipment.
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Skift Blog
MARCH 7, 2024
Skift Take: TikTok has become an influential force in travel discovery. Selling travel more directly would make it formidable. In the meantime, experiments with horizontal-format video and its new protections for children are intriguing.
Lodging
MARCH 7, 2024
What initially inspired you to get into the hospitality business? Hilton is an iconic brand and the vitality, complexity, and community surrounding hospitality are unique to this industry and continue to inspire me. Now that I am in hospitality, the team members, owners, and suppliers—the community I have the pleasure of working with—are why I will probably never leave this business!
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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
Skift Blog
MARCH 7, 2024
Skift Take: As with privacy concerns, the European Union is ahead of the U.S. when it comes to regulating digital platforms such as Google. European online travel companies aren't satisfied with Google's changes — but hotels think they go too far.
Hotel Management
MARCH 7, 2024
Each year, International Women’s Day raises a variety of conversations about gender equity. In 2024, the focus is on inclusivity, with the theme ‘Inspire Inclusion’ looking at ways to combat bias, stereotypes, and discrimination in the quest for a gender equal world. Here, women in hotels, from a variety of cultural and career backgrounds, share their experiences of inclusion in the industry, and the ways in which they are committed to a more diverse future.
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Hotel Management
MARCH 7, 2024
The countdown is on to the 2024 Asia Pacific Hotel Industry Conference and Exhibition (AHICE) – the hotel event where deals get done – with a number of new program items just announced. Over the course of three days – commencing with Design Inn and the Future Leaders Forum at SkyCity Adelaide on April 30, followed by AHICE at the Adelaide Oval on May 1-2 – delegates can expect insightful panel sessions, keynotes, Q&As and presentations, ample networking opportunities and innovative exhibitor
Hospitality Net
MARCH 7, 2024
The first JW Marriott and Marriott International luxury property in St. Maarten is set to elevate the island’s hospitality landscape by seamlessly merging luxury and wellness within this highly-coveted destination.
Hotel Management
MARCH 7, 2024
Each year, International Women’s Day raises a variety of conversations about gender equity. In 2024, the focus is on inclusivity, with the theme ‘Inspire Inclusion’ looking at ways to combat bias, stereotypes, and discrimination in the quest for a gender equal world. Here, Accor Chief Operating Officer Premium, Midscale, Economy for MEA APAC, Kerry Healy, discusses how the hotel industry can better embrace inclusivity for both guests and teams.
Hospitality Net
MARCH 7, 2024
Marriott International, Inc. today announced it has signed an agreement with Victoria Park Hotels Ltd. to launch The Park Lane Hong Kong, Autograph Collection in early 2025.
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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
Skift Blog
MARCH 7, 2024
Skift Take: The much-anticipated Skift Short-Term Rental Summit is back in New York City on June 5. Last year, this event sold out weeks in advance.
Hospitality Net
MARCH 7, 2024
Building on Hyatt’s purpose of care and commitment to wellbeing, Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) announced today an exclusive collaboration between the Hyatt Regency brand and Future, a personal training platform that connects users with an ongoing fitness coach to create customized virtual workouts, further complementing World of Hyatt members and guests’ wellbeing journeys.
Skift Blog
MARCH 7, 2024
Skift Take: Today's podcast looks at the power of Tiktok travel, United's pilot pause, and the Digital Markets Act's effects on Google.
Hospitality Net
MARCH 7, 2024
Award-winning Harley-Street Integrative Hypnotherapist and Sleep Expert, Malminder Gill, is delighted to announce her exclusive partnership with the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, launching to coincide with World Sleep Day, 15th March 2024.
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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.
Skift Blog
MARCH 7, 2024
Skift Take: The industry is getting closer to the vision of the comprehensive digital travel agent, but it's still far away.
Hospitality Net
MARCH 7, 2024
Accor, a world’s leading hospitality group, today announces the signing of the 168-room TRIBE Kraków Stare Miasto in Poland. Expected to open in 2025, the new construction hotel will be located in the centre of Kraków, and will be the first hotel under the lifestyle TRIBE brand in the country.
Skift Blog
MARCH 7, 2024
Skift Take: One of Boeing’s biggest customers said it has paused pilot hiring in the spring due Max 10 delivery delays.
Hospitality Net
MARCH 7, 2024
Zel, the hotel brand created by Meliá Hotels International and Rafael Nadal, has announced new expansion plans, as previously announced at Fitur by Meliá’s Chairman and CEO, Gabriel Escarrer. He announced the brand’s upcoming destinations, with the second Zel project set to open on the Costa Brava this summer, followed by new hotels in Madrid, Sayulita (Mexico), and Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) in 2025.
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Skift Blog
MARCH 7, 2024
Skift Take: It may not have a 336-foot Sphere with U2, but the Qiddiya Speed Track isn't short of ambition.
Hospitality Net
MARCH 7, 2024
In the past few months, I’ve been to several concerts. I’d say the entertainers were legends in the industry. Two of them were Bob Dylan and Ringo Starr (of the Beatles). Both are talented beyond words. They both have successful careers. They have both been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It’s important for you to know this, just in case you don’t know who they are.
Lodging
MARCH 7, 2024
FLORENCE, South Carolina—Raines added two more properties to its management portfolio: Springhill Suites Cheraw in Cheraw, South Carolina, and Hilton Garden Inn University District Greenville in Greenville, North Carolina. Co-X Holdings has a majority stake in both properties. The 102-key Springhill Suites Cheraw includes free breakfast, guest laundry, a fitness center, an outdoor pool, and an on-site restaurant.
Hospitality Net
MARCH 7, 2024
Throughout my HR career at Guestcentric, diversity and inclusion in the workplace has been a frequently and widely discussed topic. We all know the typical narrative resounding in the headlines, that women have been historically discriminated against in the workplace, leading to shortages of women in the tech industry. But although this may have been the case back in the 70s, with the wealth of programs and initiatives aimed at encouraging women to pursue tech careers, I cannot help but wonder,
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Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.
Lodging
MARCH 7, 2024
Kevin Carey was named interim president and CEO of the American Hotel & Lodging Association. Read more. Remington Hotels announced the retirement of Christ Green as president. Read more. Omni Hotels & Resorts announced the appointment of Trip Riggs as its new chief financial officer. Riggs will oversee the company’s finance and accounting functions and play a role in performance and growth within the executive leadership team.
Hospitality Net
MARCH 7, 2024
As both the Owner and General Manager of 137 Pillars Suites and Residences, Nida Wongphanlert is using her influential position in hospitality to foster a culture of sustainability both within and beyond her hotel walls.
Hotel Management
MARCH 7, 2024
Europeans, with money to travel, are continuing to opt for hotels as their preferred choice of holiday accommodation but climate concerns are having an impact on booking behaviour, according to a new report from Accor. Despite ongoing cost of living pressures, research carried out amongst 8,000 travellers across seven European countries, found that over half (54%) of participants believe they will have more money to spend on travel in 2024 than they did in 2023, compared to just 11% who say they
Hospitality Net
MARCH 7, 2024
IHG Hotels & Resorts, one of the world’s leading hotel companies, has signed a management agreement with the King Abdullah Financial District Management and Development Company (KAFD DMC) to bring two more luxury hotels to Riyadh. In an expansion of the IHG-KAFD partnership, Regent Riyadh KAFD and InterContinental Riyadh KAFD are poised to complement the region’s first Kimpton at KAFD, which is set to debut by the end of 2024 as part of the agreement established last year, bringing its total to
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Hotel Management
MARCH 7, 2024
Each year, International Women’s Day raises a variety of conversations about gender equity. In 2024, the focus is on inclusivity, with the theme ‘Inspire Inclusion’ looking at ways to combat bias, stereotypes, and discrimination in the quest for a gender equal world. Here, Quest Watergardens Business Owner, Gazal Kamali, shares her perspective on building a more inclusive industry.
Hospitality Net
MARCH 7, 2024
The hotel company keeps expanding in the main Mediterranean destinations and continues to grow in Italy, reaching the Sardinian coast before this summer.
Hotel Management
MARCH 7, 2024
Queenslanders are set to have more options to visit New Zealand and Samoa with Qantas adding more than 35,000 seats to its international network out of Brisbane each year. From late October 2024, the Qantas says it will operate larger aircraft and extra frequencies to meet growing demand for business and holiday travel. Flights between Brisbane and Wellington will move to a larger Boeing 737 aircraft instead of the daily Embraer E190 flights, adding more than 600 seats on the route each week.
Hospitality Net
MARCH 7, 2024
Airbnb is inviting bookworms on the ultimate literary escape: an overnight stay in the Hidden Library of St Paul’s Cathedral – hosted by Abby Parker of BookTok’s @abbysbooks. Tucked away in one of London’s most iconic landmarks, the Hidden Library allows guests to immerse themselves in the enchanting world of literature – exclusively listed on Airbnb.
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