Hotel Speak

MARCH 15, 2024

Shaking up the mid-scale hotel market, Hilton has announced the acquisition of Graduate Hotels for a cool $210 million. With this acquisition, Hilton takes a significant step towards solidifying its dominance in the hospitality industry, particularly in the coveted mid-scale market segment.

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Hospitality Net

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Prominent New Zealand hospitality management company, Capstone Hotel Management (Capstone), is today celebrating 10 years of growth with SiteMinder, the name behind the only software platform that unlocks the full revenue potential of hotels.

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Hospitality Tech

MAY 22, 2023

In the past, delivering personalized experiences at scale sacrificed data privacy. However, with the rise of first-party data and marketing partners who have access to larger datasets, hoteliers can have both privacy and personalization.

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Hospitality Net

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In this week’s episode of the Hotel Moment podcast, Karen Stephens, Revinate CRO, and Ellis Connolly, CRO of Laasie.ai, challenge the status quo of traditional loyalty programs and open up the idea of experience-led and value-based loyalty programs. Connolly shares his views on why loyalty should go beyond points.

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Skift Blog

JUNE 9, 2023

Skift Take: It's hard to see how Booking's pending acquisition of flight-oriented Etraveli Group would materially hurt the European hotel industry. After all, Booking.com is already Etraveli's partner for hotels. Dennis Schaal Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Hospitality Net

MAY 8, 2023

Today, Hilton announced the launch of a new employer brand campaign as the global hospitality company continues to boost hiring in a period of rapid, post-pandemic growth. Building on the success of its recent enterprise-wide “Hilton.

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Skift Blog

MARCH 29, 2024

Skift Take: Southwest Airlines is developing its own ecosystem for renewable jet fuel, meant to provide more guaranteed access as production is scaled. Justin Dawes Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Mews

JULY 25, 2023

Often as organizations scale, they lose their edge. Things start to move slower, and innovation can feel few and far between. This post will outline seven key points I’ve learned for maintaining an innovative edge within a cross-functional product team, enabling growth and promoting creativity.

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Skift Blog

APRIL 10, 2024

If you're one of those innovators - and are looking for an opportunity to showcase your work on a global scale - the Skift IDEA Awards might just be the platform for you. Skift Take: Every day, creative minds around the world are shaping the future of the travel industry. Nicole Meyer Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Hospitality Net

MARCH 28, 2024

Revinate, a global leader in hospitality technology, announces two appointments to its senior leadership team. Karen Stephens, Revinate’s current Chief Revenue Officer, will be the new Chief Marketing Officer. Doug Tilford joins the team as the new Chief Revenue Officer.

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Revinate

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The post How to build and scale a value-driven loyalty program for your guests appeared first on Revinate. Connolly shares his views on why [.]

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Hospitality Net

JULY 12, 2023

Hapi, the hospitality industry’s leading platform for fast and cost-effective connectivity between technology systems, is excited to announce new infrastructure in partnership with AWS that is providing hotel companies access to critical guest and transactional data in revolutionary ways.

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Hospitality Net

JUNE 9, 2023

This July, The Laguna, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa, Nusa Dua, Bali will complete its transformational journey, following over a year of renovations to its rooms, restaurants and other facilities.

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Skift Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Skift Take: Since Vladislav Doronin took the helm of Aman Group, he's scaled up the ultra-luxury hotel group. Here's what's next. Sean O'Neill Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Hospitality Net

APRIL 15, 2024

Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) today announced plans for scaled growth in the leisure space in Europe, Africa and the Middle East (EAME) underscored by a record year of deal signings in 2023.

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Hospitality Net

JUNE 6, 2023

Flip.to, the marketing platform to reach, inspire, and win over travelers, is pleased to announce the appointment of industry veteran Jon Ruggles as Director, Partnerships.

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Hospitality Net

JULY 25, 2023

The Laguna, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa, Nusa Dua, Bali has now completed its transformational journey, following over a year of renovations to its rooms, restaurants and other dining spaces.

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Hospitality Tech

AUGUST 14, 2023

Priyanka Mehra, Director of Product Management, Olo, is helping to bring modern payment innovations to the restaurant industry.

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SiteMinder

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

“With Capstone entering a new phase of growth, we recently underwent a review of all of our software systems, which allowed us to reflect on why SiteMinder will be so central to our offering as we scale. The first of three traits we identified is SiteMinder’s flexibility.

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Hospitality Tech

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

AI offers many benefits across different business areas, making it a powerful tool for enhancing customer understanding, empowering decision-making, and achieving seamless efficiency.

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Anthony Iannarino

OCTOBER 13, 2019

The application of technology to, well, everything, is driven by the idea of speed, scale, and predictability. Scaling the Unscalable. The first is super-transactional, where scale means eliminating friction, including price. There are three variables necessary to scale the unscalable: Trust, Value, and Caring.

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Hospitality Net

MARCH 13, 2024

IHG Hotels & Resorts (IHG) today announced an agreement with EnviroSpark, an industry leader in the design, installation, and operation of electrical vehicle (EV) charging solutions, to make electric vehicle chargers (EVCs) available to all IHG-branded hotels across the United States and Canada.

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Belza

MAY 28, 2023

Scale Average Hotel Daily Rate ”ADR” With Uniquely Customized Fitness Center | Hotel Marketing

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Hotelier Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

“Even though we have more than 186 million Bonvoy members, tapping into this scale segment is going to allow us to identify a new customer. And then with the addition of StudioRes, we now have a lodging option from mid-scale to luxury, which means we’re going to have an offering for each trip purpose.”

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Skift Blog

JANUARY 21, 2024

We will be gathering 400+ leaders, investors, and strategists to discuss the future and opportunities India presents on a global scale. Skift Take: For the first time, Skift is heading to India to host the best travel industry event in the region, Skift India Summit. Nicole Meyer Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Hospitality Net

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

According to the Q3 2023 Middle East Construction Pipeline Trend Report from Lodging Econometrics (LE), at the end of the third quarter, the hotel construction pipeline in the region stands at 585 projects/139,582 rooms. Project counts in the region are up 9%, while room counts show a 3% increase year-over-year (YOY).

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Skift Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Skift Take: Venture capital is tight for certain types of startups, so those that need help scaling might run into some trouble. Justin Dawes Read the Complete Story On Skift

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Hospitality Net

MARCH 13, 2024

Hotelogix, a globally leading cloud-based hospitality technology provider, said Saudi Arabia’s IRIS Hotels has been able to scale its business while expanding its portfolio on the back of a robust technology platform provided by its multi-property management system.

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MediaBoom

AUGUST 10, 2023

The post Financial Advisor Marketing Strategies — The Key to Scaling appeared first on Mediaboom. The simplest mistake can blow it, tanking all your time, the budget you dedicated towards it, and your efforts with it. Want to avoid that? Contact MediaBoom to learn how we can help!

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Hotel Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Seventy-two percent of its pipeline is concentrated in the three highest chainscales: luxury, upper-upscale and upscale, which typically boasts larger scale projects. The post Larger scale projects dominate Middle East in Q3 appeared first on hotelbusiness.com.

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Lodging

MARCH 19, 2024

The first-of-its-kind offering—which has seen its network of current and prospective women hotel owners climb to more than 550—leverages Wyndham’s scale and influence to break down the unique barriers women face on the path to hotel ownership. According to data from U.S

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Skift Blog

JULY 10, 2023

Skift Take: Marriott's scale and skew to slower growing segments has meant it has lagged its closest competitor Hilton on net unit growth for many years. However, by newly tackling the whitespace opportunities in the midscale and economy chain scales, this could aid in bridging the gap in unit growth.

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Hospitality Net

APRIL 12, 2024

Amidst the current discussions about AI’s transformative potential, there’s a common industry misconception that it primarily benefits large-scale hotels and enterprises, leaving smaller and medium-sized firms behind in the dark ages.

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Hospitality Net

MARCH 25, 2024

All but two chain scales, Upper Upscale and Upscale, saw RevPAR decrease with the largest decline in the branded portion of the chain scales occurring in Economy (-8%). revenue per available room (RevPAR) dipped for a second consecutive week and by the worst percentage (-3.5%) since the last week of 2023.

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Hotel Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The luxury, upper-upscale and upscale chain scales each hit peak project counts at the end of Q4. The post LE: Top chain scales in APAC hit peak project counts appeared first on hotelbusiness.com. Five countries in the Asia-Pacific region, excluding China, account for 61% of projects in the region’s total pipeline.

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Hospitality Net

JANUARY 31, 2024

This latest signing signifies IHG’s strong owner relationships and its commitment to growth in new and emerging markets such as Sweden, drawing on its scale of more than 780 open hotels across Europe.

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