Holiday Inn Owner Sees Busy U.S. Summer As Demand Returns
Holiday Inn owner IHG (IHG.L) said on Friday demand was coming back strongly and forecast a busy U.S. summer season as travellers take advantage of an easing of coronavirus lockdowns.
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WTTC Requests Clear Rules And A Consistent Protocol For Mobility At The G20 Tourism Ministerial Meeting Hosted By Italy
Gloria Guevara, President & CEO of World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) gave an opening keynote speech at the G20 Tourism Ministers Meeting, as Ministers gathered to discuss the G20 Rome Guidelines for the Future of Tourism.
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Isabelle Jan, Co-founder and manager, PrivateDeal SA
This decision will most definitely impact hotels' digital marketing strategies, especially those which do not currently include the Google Ads Suite. One notable consequence is that tracking social media campaigns (among others with the Facebook pixel) will become very difficult and might incentivize hotels to move away from this kind of marketing.
Erik Muñoz, Business Development Director EMEA, TrustYou
To add some context: 42.7% of internet users worldwide (16-64 years old) use ad-blocking tools at least once a month (source: Hootsuite). When Google announced their intention to stop third-party cooking tracking on its Chrome browser by 2022, other browsers like Safari and Firefox already made that change years ago.
Fabian Bartnick, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, PerfectCheck
There is two parts to the problem: a) how does a hotel ensure that their ads now hit the right target and b) as you rightly said, how is the tracking going to work at a hotel level but more specifically - how are vendors currently tracking that data will change their mechanism, if at all required?Whilst its nothing new that google just gatecrashes parties and owns verticals once broken into (with travel being a major one i believe going forward) I find it highly interesting that google goes back to "segmentation" whilst always playing the "hyper personalization" card in all other areas.On the other hand - how do most hotels really use that information anyhow?
SiteMinder Enables Digital Transformation Of Ona Hotels
Ona Hotels has selected SiteMinder, the world's largest open hotel commerce platform, to support the process of digitally transforming its 25-year business and consolidating its technology as it prepares for future growth. The appointment will see Ona Hotels adopt a more dynamic pricing strategy with SiteMinder and distribute its portfolio of 8000 rooms through SiteMinder's platform.
London hotels team up to encourage bookings
As hotels gear up to reopen on May 17, a collection of properties in London has teamed up to offer discounted stays and "value-added packages" to encourage bookings in the capital.
German Hoteliers Demand Compensation From booking.com
The association justifies its commitment to help hoteliers to their rights in court. Since 2004 at the latest, the booking portal has applied best-price clauses with which it prohibited affiliated hotels from offering rooms at lower rates through any other distribution channel. With these clauses, Booking.com shielded its business model against any competition in violation of antitrust law, which ultimately allowed the company to collect booking commissions of up to 50% of the room rate from hoteliers.
Off-Piste Planning: How To Organize A World-Class Sporting Event In A Pandemic
Situated at the top of the Valle del Boite, the Northern Italian resort of Cortina is blessed with 360-degree views of the Dolomites.
Young Hoteliers Summit (YHS) 2021: A Macroscopic View
After four intense, insightful days filled with thought-provoking panels and keynotes by highly experienced industry professionals, yet another successful edition of the Young Hoteliers Summit was completed! This year, around 40 esteemed speakers and our 69 student delegates joined us online from all over the world to discuss, debate, and to answer the common question: How can we Rethink, Re-Sculpt and Rejuvenate the hospitality industry?
Revenue by Design launches online learning platform in response to global pandemic
Revenue by Design, leading revenue management training and outsource provider, today launched Revenue Academy, an online learning platform designed to share, build and drive revenue management knowledge and understanding throughout the industry.
Whitbread Opens Warehouse In Germany To Support Expansion Plans
Whitbread is announcing it has opened its first warehouse in Haiger, Germany as part of a long-term solution to support Premier Inn's exciting growth plans.
Free And With A Whole Host Of Benefits – The New MyMaritim Bonus Scheme
That's why Maritim Hotels are making things easy. "MyMaritim" points are collected for every online booking made through the Maritim website. 1,000 welcome points are awarded as soon as customers register for the free scheme. Customers can then use some or all of the points the next time they make an online booking. There are no restricted dates or seasons and no minimum points threshold. Best of all, MyMaritim members will always save at least 10 percent compared to offers available on the internet. This applies to all prices, regardless of whether breakfast is included.
Louvre Hotels Group chooses Sabre’s hospitality solutions to boost its strategic distribution transformation and support its development
Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), a leading software and technology provider powering the global travel industry, today announced a strategic long-term technology partnership with Louvre Hotels Group, Europe's second-largest enterprise hotel group counting almost 1,600 hotels across 54 countries and a subsidiary of Jin Jiang International.
Britons are tapping into the power of kindness to help them get through the COVID-19 pandemic
In a world dominated by the doom and gloom of the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing that is prevailing in these uncertain times, is kindness. Nearly half (46%) of Britons report, that they have become kinder in order to help restore faith in humanity.
How are Hotels Adapting and Innovating During COVID-19?
Covid-19 has hit businesses of just about every shape and size hard, but few have felt the effects quite as strongly as those in the hospitality industry. Bars, restaurants and hotels in many parts of the world have been forced to close as restrictions to limit the spread of the Coronavirus have taken hold.
What Impact Has the Pandemic Had on Future Youth Travel and Tourism?
For almost a year, the pandemic has impacted travel. We have seen plans in a state of flux, not just for the young, but for every generation. With the travel corridor list everchanging and the UK infection rate rising again, the travel industry's need to adopt flexible policies and take proper health and safety precautions is more important than ever.
By Charles Knowlton, Global General Manager, Topdeck Travel
UK Travel sector faces ‘uphill battle’ to regain pre-Covid consumer confidence
Customer satisfaction levels across the travel sector have fallen to the lowest level in more than a decade as companies struggled to confront the Covid-19 crisis.
Park Regis Birmingham Partners with IDeaS for Greater Forecast Accuracy and Committed Support
IDeaS, a SAS company, the world's leading provider of hotel revenue management software and services, announced today Park Regis Birmingham has switched revenue technology providers to implement IDeaS G3 Revenue Management System (RMS).
Driving Holidays and Staycations Top the List for Britons’ 2021 Holiday Plans
A survey by hotel loyalty programme Wyndham Rewards polling over 4,000 members across Europe, Middle East, Africa and Eurasia (EMEA) in November - including a representative sample of over 1,700 UK respondents* - has revealed the type of trips British travellers are planning for 2021 when they can travel again and the factors that feed into those choices.
INNSiDE Manchester and Sterling Event Group join forces to launch Hybrid Event Studio in Manchester
INNSiDE Manchester, part of Meliá Hotels International, has partnered with one of the UK's leading technical event production and AV hire companies, Sterling Event Group to launch Manchester's first virtual event production studio in a hotel.
dailypoint™ market leader among the CRM providers in the German hotel industry
In order to give executives from the individual and chain hotel industry insights into the hotel tech market, the first German Hotel Technology Report was published by Hotelhero in partnership with the German Hotel Association (IHA) and in cooperation with HSMA Deutschland e.V. and techtalk.travel. This report underlines the importance for hotels to rely on a strong digital strategy in order to survive in the market even after the lockdown.