Skift Blog
MAY 4, 2023
Skift Take: Any changes the next wave of artificial intelligence might bring will not be instantaneous. Booking Holdings has time to act to sustain its current position in online travel.
Lodging
MAY 4, 2023
LAS VEGAS—MGM Resorts International reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2023. “MGM Resorts is executing across all of its geographies and channels with record first quarter Las Vegas Strip Adjusted Property EBITDAR, consistently strong Regional Operations profit, MGM China’s swift return to profitability, and BetMGM’s anticipated positive earnings later this year,” said Bill Hornbuckle, CEO and president of MGM Resorts. “Beyond our continued e
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Skift Blog
MAY 4, 2023
Skift Take: Big tech companies everywhere have been dropping staff, and now it's Sabre's turn. This may also be a result of a permanently changed travel industry post-pandemic and Sabre's effort to keep up.
Lodging
MAY 4, 2023
A self-described gardener, Makeready President and COO Christine Magrann was tapped by Jimmy Merkel, CEO and founder of investment firm Rockbridge, in 2015 to take on a position that entailed tending to a relatively new variety of guest, one seeking a more personal experience than that offered by the traditional brands. Magrann recently shared with LODGING how she approaches providing the brand’s unique guest experiences much like a gardener, with patience, teamwork, and constancy, saying, [R
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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
MAY 4, 2023
Skift Take: In football or soccer — pick your sport/analogy — sometimes it takes a new coach to get momentum. Under its new CEO, Tripadvisor is making significant changes to its core products.
Hospitality Net
MAY 4, 2023
Radisson Hotel Group announces the signing of its first affordable, high design prizeotel property in the UK & Ireland region. Scheduled to open in Q1 2025 in Dublin, this landmark property follows a series of exciting signing and opening announcements for the prizeotel brand as it targets accelerated growth across EMEA in 2023.
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Hospitality Net
MAY 4, 2023
Singapore, 04/05/23: Hotelogix, a globally leading cloud-based hospitality technology provider, said that Africa’s The Paradise and Wilderness Group has adopted its multi-property management system to gain centralised control over group operations. All 21 properties operating across Tanzania and Zanzibar are running on Hotelogix.
Skift Blog
MAY 4, 2023
Skift Take: Vrbo is one of Expedia Group's core three brands, but the jury is out on whether the vacation rental unit will now recede more into the background as cities recover.
Hospitality Net
MAY 4, 2023
M3 Accounting Services, Inc. (“M3”) has achieved yet another remarkable accomplishment by being named the winner of a prestigious Gold Stevie® Award in the highly competitive Company of the Year - Hospitality & Leisure – Medium category in the 21st Annual American Business Awards®. This is a remarkable feat for M3, as they have secured this award for the second consecutive year in a row, reaffirming its exceptional performance and commitment to excellence in the hospitality industry.
Skift Blog
MAY 4, 2023
Skift Take: If you thought Europe's premium hotels were packed last year, you haven't seen anything yet, Hyatt's executives say. They're also rightly optimistic about Asia Pacific's recovery.
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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
Hospitality Net
MAY 4, 2023
Mews, the hospitality technology leader and innovator, has partnered with pop-up hospitality school pioneers, Saira Hospitality, to transform education in the hospitality industry and help with ongoing staffing shortages.
Skift Blog
MAY 4, 2023
Skift Take: Discover the enhanced Skift Ideas, your ultimate resource for the most groundbreaking creative projects, campaigns, designs, and ideas in the travel industry, featuring awards, editorial content, podcasts, and more.
Hospitality Net
MAY 4, 2023
RateGain Travel Technologies Limited (RateGain), a global provider of SaaS solutions for travel and hospitality, through its latest PULSE report powered by Adara, shared that the Middle East region will beat all other travel markets in the rate of recovery for travel demand In the upcoming quarter.
Skift Blog
MAY 4, 2023
Skift Take: Conversational search is an exciting space in travel, even for the somewhat tedious side of travel and expenses management, which now sees the virtual assistant role extended into a data analyst. Navan is offering predictive travel budget solutions.
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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.
Hospitality Net
MAY 4, 2023
Award-winning strategy, branding and interior design firm EDG Design has launched its latest hospitality project for the newly opened Pullman Singapore Orchard. An ambitious undertaking from day one, the entire project from initial concept through construction and opening took less than 18 months end-to-end, which included fully re-zoning the majority of the public spaces left over from the previous Grand Park Orchard hotel.
Skift Blog
MAY 4, 2023
Skift Take: Hong Kong's retail sales in March recorded nearly a 41 percent increase from the previous year, with a significant boom in tourism and visitor spending contributing factors.
Hospitality Net
MAY 4, 2023
Rosewood Hotels & Resorts® has been appointed by Eleven D&C Co., Ltd., one of Korea’s leading real estate developers, to manage Rosewood Seoul, a new build ultra-luxury hotel set to open in 2027. Situated beside Yongsan Park in the heart of the city, the hotel will exist within The Parkside Seoul, a revolutionary development occupying the former site of the United Nations Command.
Skift Blog
MAY 4, 2023
Skift Take: Today's edition of Skift's daily podcast looks at Airbnb’s next phase, Lindblad’s full cabins, and Lufthansa’s optimism.
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Hospitality Net
MAY 4, 2023
This paper presents findings from a survey of business event participants conducted in February and March of 2023. The survey aims to explore changes in the frequency of travel, motivations for travel, and changes in travel behaviors. Results show promising growth in 2023 and that the desire to network with peers and destination appeal are the strongest factors influencing decisions to travel to business events.
Skift Blog
MAY 4, 2023
Skift Take: We've heard from travel companies partnering with OpenAI to implement generative AI. Now here's one partnering with Google.
Hospitality Net
MAY 4, 2023
Cycas Hospitality has strengthened its presence within continental Europe today, with the announcement of its appointment to manage its 4th hotel in the region, the luxury Grandhotel Bad Pyrmont spa hotel near Hanover, Germany.
Are Morch
MAY 4, 2023
Google Ads can be one of the most powerful and effective tools for hoteliers to use while trying to target demographics and reach new customers with ads for their hotel. When used correctly, Google Ads provides great reach, precise targeting, and powerful tools that can lead to your business beating out the competition and increasing […] The post Mistakes to Avoid While Running Google Ads for Your Hotel Business appeared first on Are Morch, Digital Transformation Coach.
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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.
Hospitality Net
MAY 4, 2023
Knowland, the world’s leading provider of data-as-a-service insights on meetings and events for hospitality, continued its monthly monitoring of the top 25 markets to identify those markets that are leading the industry in meeting and event volume. Today the company announced that the Chicago market led the U.S. meetings and events industry by volume for April.
Lodging
MAY 4, 2023
HENDERSONVILLE, Tennessee—U.S. hotel performance showed mixed results from the previous week but remained up year over year, according to STR’s latest data through April 29, 2023. U.S. Hotel Performance April 23-29, 2023 Percentage change from comparable week in 2022: Occupancy: 66.6 percent (up 0.1 percent) ADR: $156.14 (up 5.5 percent) RevPAR $104.01 (up 5.6 percent) Among the Top 25 Markets, Boston saw the highest year-over-year occupancy increase (up 15.3 percent to 75.6 percent).
Hospitality Net
MAY 4, 2023
IHG Hotels & Resorts, one the of the world’s largest hotel groups, with 6000 hotels across 18 brands, has signed a management agreement with The King Abdullah Financial District Management and Development Company (KAFD DMC), a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), to bring the first Kimpton hotel in the region to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Lodging
MAY 4, 2023
WASHINGTON—The American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) announced two new staff additions that will further expand the organization’s government affairs and advocacy capabilities. Kat Fonda has been named AHLA’s director of federal affairs. In this new role, she will be responsible for policy development and advocacy before Congress and other federal government agencies.
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Hospitality Net
MAY 4, 2023
Further supporting recovery around the region, a majority of Asia Pacific’s key hotel markets surpassed their 2019 levels in gross operating profit per available room (GOPPAR), according to STR‘s March 2023 P&L data release.
Skift Blog
MAY 4, 2023
Skift Take: India must increase investment and leverage public-private partnership models to build on its niche tourism offerings — such as medical, wellness and spiritual tourism — to attract more international tourists.
Hospitality Net
MAY 4, 2023
Within the hotel and lodging sector, Dallas’s popularity with visitors and its ability to attract new businesses have contributed to an unhesitating redemption. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, revenue per available room (RevPAR) in the greater Downtown Dallas area for 2022 rebounded to levels similar to 2019; however, the year-to-date period ending February 2023 shows RevPAR exceeding prior peak levels, as illustrated in the Kalibri Labs data below.
Skift Blog
MAY 4, 2023
Skift Take: Spain-based hotel group Melia has been looking for partners to grow, and it may have found one in the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
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