Following the acquisition of a portfolio of urban hotels in Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, and Wismar, the new owners needed to create a new brand quickly to be able to re-commercialise their hotels. When they contacted Creative Supply, they had four hotels, a business plan and a name, “Vagabond Club”. The brand was to be entirely rebuilt and as quickly as possible.
The leading sales, operations, and distribution management platform HotelRunner introduces 'Insights' at WTM London, a cloud-native business intelligence (BI) platform, offering ready-to-use and fully customizable pixel-perfect dashboards, data warehouse models, and visualizations.
It was mid-June 2022 and Vito and Carlo Cinque, two brothers at the helm of the world-renowned Italian 5-star hotel Il San Pietro (ISP) since 1996, had reasons to rejoice. Located in Positano on the Amalfi Coast, south of Naples, their 56-room iconic property was enjoying its best year, as unprecedented numbers of pandemic-exhausted travelers were flocking again to Positano. Charging an average rate of €1,882 each night for a room, the hotel boasted a 99.9% occupancy rate1 and was fully booked until mid-October. This was in stark contrast with the preceding two years during the Covid-19 pandemic, when ISP struggled to keep staff onboard and attract guests as Italy endured a catastrophic drop in tourism.
SBM (Société des Bains de Mer) is a casino and luxury hotel group with more than 150 years of history in Monaco encompassing four properties that include four and five-star hotels. For more than 12 years, Benjamin Caprini has been the revenue manager for the hotel group. The hotels using IDeaS today include The Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo, The Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo, and The Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort.
In recent years, the world of alpine tourism has shined with exceptional resilience. All players in the sector are mobilized to face climate, geopolitical or health-safety challenges and preserve an essential activity for the region. La Folie Douce is no exception to the rule and is launching the Alpine Sprint, in collaboration with Creative Supply and with the participation of EHL Hospitality Business School, founded in 1893 as the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne. A lively event in the form of a crazy competition, aiming to envision the resort of the future, in the exceptional setting of Chamonix. See you on November 18, 2022!
Lithuania-based upscale property Art City Inn has been leveraging RateTiger Channel Manager and Booking Engine for optimizing and expanding online distribution. The property has experienced excellent growth in bookings by adding new source markets through RateTiger’s wide network of demand channels as well as driving direct bookings from their brand website.
In honour of World Tourism Day on 27 September and with a mission to make it easier for everyone to experience the world - including the parts that aren’t so far from home, we are recommending a handful of adventures right here in the UK. After all, why should overseas visitors be the only ones checking out what the UK has to offer?
One of the Canary Islands, Tenerife is one of Europe’s most popular destinations, welcoming 2.7 million tourists in 2021 alone. The destination has significant touristic potential, and it is aiming to develop its sector in line with the values and priorities of UNWTO.
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has joined the European Historic Thermal Towns Association (EHTTA) and the Spanish region of Galicia in the north of the country (Axencia Turismo Galicia) to announce plans for this year’s "International Congress on Thermal Tourism”, which kicks off on World Tourism Day (27-29 September in Ourense, Galicia).
Housed in one of the magnificent palaces built by the knights of the Order of St John, Osborne Hotel, a 3-star luxury property in Valletta, has strongly recommended RateTiger as its technology partner of choice for hotel rate shopping, channel management and online distribution.
In this series, we go behind the front desk to learn everything from the strangest room service requests to quirky fun facts, to the most heartwarming reunions. We pick a new destination and hotel each month to give you the inside scoop.
Winners of the HSMAI Europe Awards 2021 were unveiled at a Gala Ceremony, which took place at the Kimpton Fitzroy Hotel in London last week.
A French family of five were welcomed by the villagers of Sambuca in Sicily on 2 July, after being selected to become temporary residents of the village to help revitalize the community. As part of the 1 Euro House campaign, the family with three children will live in a restored designer historic home and Host guests on Airbnb for one year.
EHL Advisory Services, the training and consultancy branch of EHL Group (the global reference in hospitality education, business solutions and innovation) has partnered Emirates, one of the world’s largest airline, to take its new hospitality strategy to the next level.
FirstName is a state of mind. The expression of FEEL GOOD embodies generous and benevolent places which cultivate common sense, joie de vivre, freedom, humor and sharing. An experience of beauty and overall well-being. And a new way of experiencing the hotel today and tomorrow.
Hilton (NYSE: HLT) launches ‘Waitographer’, to help team members capture great photography of guests at its restaurants and bars. Almost 200 team members from hotels across the country, and 500 across the globe, have now been trained by renowned photographer, Roger Moukarzel.
Messe Berlin is planning a number of important changes next year to mark the first in-person edition of ITB Berlin since the pandemic began. Instead of running from a Wednesday to a Sunday, ITB Berlin 2023 will take place on three successive days, from Tuesday 7 to Thursday, 9 March. The demands placed on global trade fairs have changed considerably in recent years, which is why in future and in terms of customers, the World’s Leading Travel Trade Show is concentrating its efforts to focus on exhibiting companies as well as exclusively on trade visitors, buyers and the media. As in previous years, the internationally renowned ITB Berlin Convention will take place live parallel with the exhibition on the Berlin Exhibition Grounds, with selected sessions live-streamed on itb.com. Virtual services surrounding the live show will round off events.
Move over gold, platinum has a new ring to it! Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II, and the world for that matter, is celebrating her Platinum Jubilee in June – marking 70 years of service in a reign that will forever be etched into the hearts of many.
The Sicilian Railway Experience is the latest revelation from Rocco Forte Hotels, founded in collaboration with the Italian Railway Foundation (Fondazione Ferrovie dello Stato). The voyage from Central Palermo to Agrigento - Valle dei Templi on board a train from the 1920s provides an utterly unique way to connect the two iconic Sicilian outposts of the hotel group: Villa Igiea and Verdura Resort.
To celebrate World Bee Day, Italian beekeeper Rocco Filomeno has listed the world’s first bee farm on Airbnb, where guests can sleep with a colony of over 1 million bees. The un-bee-lievable home has been constructed on Rocco’s olive farm just outside the idyllic village of Grottole in southern Italy. It is now available to book on Airbnb with all proceeds going to NGO Wonder Grottole’s bee conservation projects.