The most & least expensive capital cities in Europe. To help plan your next hotel stay, hotel search website trivago.co.uk has created three money-saving infographics: the first showing the most popular destinations among UK travellers, the second showing the cheapest and most expensive city breaks and the third showing the cheapest beach towns – perfect for planning your next summer holiday.
After all this talk about Millennial travellers and their habits, we thought we'd take a look at their defining characteristics so we can understand what makes them tick. It's only through really understanding the Millennials that the travel industry can hope to stay ahead of the curve. We've put together an infographic to understand their needs and expectations when away on business travel.
Parisian hotels were hit by the dramatic events at Charlie Hebdo and Porte de Vincennes. Demand dropped, particularly in hotel categories that traditionally welcome a high proportion of overseas guests. However, the decline remained limited and could have been more significant had the destination not been able to rapidly reassure foreign visitors. Further afield, the French hotel industry had a good month, driven by several key destinations with strong MICE business.
The UK's hotels saw average RevPAR grow by double digits in the last trading quarter of 2014, according to the latest Hotel Bulletin: Q4 2014 published this week by HVS, Zolfo Cooper and AM:PM.
According to the British Hospitality Association, branded Aparthotels and Serviced Apartments will be at the forefront of new hospitality innovations and have already started to gain solid recognition as a core part of the hospitality industry.
With their asset light strategy, brands must now address several types of clientele, because in addition to the public whose loyalty they must develop, they must take at least as much care of their franchisees. TYPO3SEARCH_begin
A top London hotel which is reported to have "introduced Sharia Law" has told The Huffington Post UK it will continue to accept same-sex couples. The Bermondsey Square Hotel in Southwark has this week stopped selling alcohol, reportedly following the wishes of its multimillionaire Muslim new owner. A Daily Mail article dubbed it "Hotel Sharia" and claimed the £220-a-night hotel will now be run "in accordance with Sharia law", prompting concerns it would reject gay and lesbian couples as Sharia forbids homosexuality.
The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) – the voice of the global business travel industry – today announced plans to introduce the Berlin Charter, a charter for the business travel industry, designed to further the relationships between airlines and buyers in light of continually evolving pricing and distribution strategies such as IATA's NDC. This new initiative was announced today by Paul Tilstone, GBTA senior vice president of global development, to 850 delegates at the GBTA Europe Conference being held in Berlin. Tilstone announced that the Berlin Charter will be finalized for full member review by the end of the year. The Charter will restate the managed travel principles that GBTA originally submitted to IATA during the US Department of Transportation's (DoT) review of Resolution 787, an IATA project proposing a new set of distribution standards for the airline community, entitled New Distribution Capability (NDC). GBTA will be asking all airline CEOs to endorse the charter to reinforce the vital relationship between the corporate travel buying community with airline leaders as they develop forward distribution and pricing strategies. "The creation of the Berlin Charter is the next logical step for GBTA to reinforce the needs of the corporate travel buyer as further changes start to emerge through the implementation of NDC," said Tilstone. "It will allow us to ensure that the airline community truly understands the need for control, transparency and data of airline spend as their distribution strategies evolve. Travel buyers will understand which airlines are fully committed to relationships with buyers based on these principles." Included in the announcement was a commitment by the GBTA Foundation to launch the next version of its Airline Request for Proposal (RFP) toolkit. This new version will include ancillary services, distribution channels and airline surcharging and will be completed by the end of 2015. Speaking about plans for a re-launch of the Aviation RFP Toolkit, Daphne Bryant, executive director of the GBTA Foundation said, "The toolkit will be re-designed to complement the Berlin Charter by providing a pre-contractual framework for the airline and corporate buyer to establish the nature of their relationship, affirming the services the buyer needs and those the airline wishes to provide and through which channels they both wish to work."GBTA plans to begin discussions with airlines regarding the Berlin Chapter once internal GBTA committee and leadership processes have been completed.
Growth is imperative in order for hotel groups to reach critical size to allow economies of scale, to justify their headquarters and technological investments, to strengthen brand awareness and develop strong negotiation power with all partners. "Big is beautiful" when the choice has been made to rival the other industry giants in order to exist on the hotel planet. But when does size become a handicap due to the weight and incoherencies of the network? TYPO3SEARCH_begin
Magnuson Hotels announced today its 400th Best Western conversion, the Magnuson Hotel and Suites Alamogordo located in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Formerly the Best Western Desert Aire, the 92-room hotel has upgraded its brand presence to increase exposure via Magnuson Hotels' growing consumer awareness and global portfolio of nearly 2,000 hotels.
Demand for serviced apartments is growing faster than new supply in many European markets, as an increasingly mobile workforce drives business travel and relocation activity.
Synergy Hotels today reached a landmark in the development of its London portfolio with the Topping Out Ceremony and first preview of the 115m Hilton London Bankside, slated to open in summer 2015.
It's the ultimate luxury, a perfect combination of style, tradition and culture: The 5 star superior hotel Regent Berlin, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Berlin and the Berlin based fine china manufacturer KPM have teamed up to offer a package which leaves no wish unfulfilled.
The British Hospitality Association today launches its new sector programme for serviced apartments and welcomes its first serviced sector member, Think Apartments.
The iconic W Barcelona today unveils W Lounge, an energetic lounge in the heart of the hotel, set to be the hottest place to see and be seen in the city, offering global jetsetters and local trendsetters a place to mix and mingle over stylish cocktails and pulsating music. Led by London-based studio, United Design Partnership, W Lounge features a cutting-edge design that infuses the vibrant colours of Barcelona with the cosmopolitan city’s dynamic energy and cool Mediterranean style.
The world's leading LGBT tourism trade association today released new research at World Travel Market showing the annual spend on tourism by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people will exceed USD$200 billion for the first time in 2014. Out Now Business Class www.OutNowBusinessClass.com presented the latest findings from the world's largest LGBT market research study LGBT2020 today at a special Masterclass on LGBT tourism trends at World Travel Market in London, the leading event for the global tourism industry.
For nearly half of the nation (48%) Monday is the least productive day of the work week, with six out of 10 (57%) admitting to feeling anxiety and stress during the weekend in anticipation of the beginning of the work week. The study highlights a growing need amongst Brits for more leisure time and opportunities to unwind and disconnect over the weekend.
Launched this month in the UK, Magnuson Worldwide's low cost global hotel reservation system CRS1 will now be featured at London's World Travel Market Tech Travel Show 2013.
Launched last week at the Annual Hotel Conference in Manchester UK, Magnuson Worldwide's low cost global hotel reservation system CRS1 introduced the first ever CRS fee calculator. The CRS1 reservation fee calculator allows individual hotels and chains to compare fees between low cost CRS1 and several of the largest CRS providers such as Pegasus, Synxis and Travelclick.
Magnuson Worldwide, the world's largest hotel services organisation, today announced it intends to launch a low cost global hotel reservation system October 16th at the Annual Hotel Conference in Manchester UK.