Autograph Collection has added a new Netherlands-based hotel to its portfolio: Hotel van Oranje in Noordwijk. The hotel complements Autograph Collection's continually growing portfolio of upscale and independent hotels as the collection expands across Europe and beyond.
The Steigenberger Hotel Group's main focus this year will be strongly directed towards achieving increased quality and productivity. Both Head Office and the hotels themselves are carrying out fine tuning processes to deliver improved solutions and innovations which will ultimately lead to even higher levels of comfort and guest satisfaction. The main thrusts here are the continuing development of digital booking channels and of customer loyalty programmes and the expansion of e-commerce and IT platforms to accelerate international growth whilst also bringing about a significant improvement in cost of sales via the deployment of digital media. Responsibility for the implementation of these ambitious objectives has been placed in the hands of the newly created Division of E-Business for E-Commerce & Distribution and Online Travel Agencies (OTA), which is headed up by Vice President Ralf Denke. Mr. Denke has been involved in the e-business industry for more than twelve years and will take on a central role in moving the company into the digital age. He will share this remit with Niklas Unger, the new Head of the IT Division. Adapted to the international strategy of the company in terms of applications, architecture and sourcing, IT creates the necessary basis for the successful implementation of innovations. Mr. Unger has already worked in a number of branches as an IT and process consultant and has held responsibility for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), digital transformation and website relaunch projects. "We are delighted to have been able to secure the services of two such high-calibre candidates for these two new Head Office management roles," said Puneet Chhatwal, CEO of Steigenberger Hotels AG. "We took a conscious decision to recruit outside the hotel branch, and Mr. Denke and Mr. Unger will bring the necessary know-how to the table that will enable the Steigenberger Hotel Group to continue its successful development both in e-business and in the field of IT. We are making great strides in terms of realising our digital vision."
An Infographic identifying 5 new trends emerging in reaction to the increasing use of data and mobile by the airline, hotel, OTA and travel industry was today release by Eyefortravel. It outlines the more subtle changes that are happening at an organisational, business model and financial level. The infographic is sponsored by the Eyefortravel@Mobile World Congress this March 2. The event sees 100 senior travel industry execs meeting to listen to debate and network with the 16 board level speakers from the world's biggets airlines, hotels, tour operators, airports, railways and OTAs
Condé Nast Traveller Luxury Travel Fair - is the first global luxury travel trade event, organized by the world's leading publishing house Condé Nast. Condé Nast Traveller Luxury Travel Fair - is the largest in scale luxury travel trade event in Eastern Europe with more than 3000 square meters richly decorated by top international designers and florists.
Barcelona, 14th January 2015.- On Tuesday, 27 January, the Eurostars Madrid Tower 5* will host Hotusa Explora, I Forum for Tourism Innovation organised by the Hotusa Group. This is an unprecedented, pioneering event which will bring together leading companies, figures and entities from the Ibero-American market for a round table conference to analyse the tourism sector from various thematic approaches and strategic areas (tourism, leisure, technology, media, transport, booking portals etc.). The meeting, scheduled to be held annually to coincide with FITUR, aims to create a forum for dialogue and the exchange of knowledge, ideas and experience and, at the same time, to lead to the reflection and generation of conclusions in an international and multidisciplinary environment with tourism as the connecting link.
Mercure has decided to check the well-known six-degrees-of-separation theory, which claims that we are all only six people away from everyone else on the planet. Mercure is introducing a worldwide digital operation, "The Six Friends Theory", based on this principle and leading to an unprecedented human experience combining the power of social media and candid face-to-face encounters. The worldwide selection process will run on Facebook from January 20th to February 10th, 2015, and an internet user will soon be able to experience the extraordinary!
More and more companies are exploiting the wide-ranging impact of travel blogs in order to target customers. At the upcoming Blogger Speed Dating event ITB Berlin will be offering members of the travel industry an opportunity to meet with experienced travel bloggers from around the world for the third time. During the eight to ten-minute time slots both participants will be able to briefly introduce themselves, discuss topics and business, and establish initial contact.
HOTREC, the organisation representing the hotel sector in Europe, opposes to any commitment by Online Travel Agents trying to maintain parity clauses in hotel room distribution in one form or the other. Complete entrepreneurial freedom of hoteliers shall be restored allowing them to set their prices for any kind of distribution channel according to their business purposes.
We at Epsilon Technologies are very proud to present you the rankings of Global Hotel Companies in the Social Media for the period September-November 2014. We used our propriety tool ICARUS to collect the big data generated on social media. In this infographic, we provide three rankings each for Facebook and Twitter platforms. Each of these rankings are based on number of fans/followers, interactions, and recommendations. We also included content on social media that garnered huge success.
The ITB Berlin Convention looks at a new trend, the sharing economy – leading experts give their opinion on the future of travel marketing, mobile marketing and film location tours – admission is free for visitors to ITB Berlin
The digital challenge is transforming the way companies interact with their customers, and especially in travel and hospitality, where the new digital paradigm plays an even greater role. According to Google, in summer 2014, more than half of the searches related to travel and tourism in Spain were made through mobile devices.
This is the first book in the Palace Edition of famoushotels. Over 100 years of tradition and yet brand new: it reopend after three years of a complete renovation (basically its entire inner life was rebuilt from scratch), featuring most modern technique and state-of-the-art design and interior. 2-star Michelin chef and a spa to die for. This luxurious coffee table book tells you the story of a legendary Swiss resort, of Lake Lucerne (and Lucerne's most famous Grand Hotels), of the Queen of all mountains 'Rigi' and the race to its summit.
Since his appointment as CEO, Gabriel Escarrer has lead an aggressive international expansion; the group now has over 360 hotels worldwide and is ranked amongst the top 20 hotel companies in the world. Significantly under his direction, the Company founded 58 years ago by his father, Gabriel Escarrer Julia, has kept on consolidating its leadership through an effective response to the international crisis and the management of unprecedented cultural and organisational change, increasing financial consolidation and a steady expansion of its brands both in its traditional markets and in new markets.
More than 1,000 participants gathered in the Opera Ballroom at the InterContinental Paris Le Grand for the 15th Worldwide Hospitality Awards Ceremony. This anniversary edition is presided over by Federico J. Gonzalez Tejera, CEO NH Hotel Group and Jean-Gabriel Pérès, President and CEO Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts. For the 15th consecutive year, MKG Group has valorized the initiatives taken by groups, brands and independent hoteliers to make the international hotel industry evolve, by organizing the now essential Worldwide Hospitality Awards. For more than a hundred projects presented for 18 categories, 54 finalists and winners were retained after an on-line vote through Hospitality ON and the deliberation of two juries of experts, both hoteliers and non-hoteliers. Participants in the ceremony have also been invited to contribute to the choice of winners in four categories (Best Communication Campaign, Best Marketing Strategy, Best Hotel Innovation and Best F&B Innovation), through a direct electronic vote. This year once again innovation and exemplariness were privileged and international groups and independent hoteliers alike were rewarded."For 15 years, the Hospitality Awards have allowed the international hotel industry to highlight its most original initiatives, its most successful innovations. All the candidatures, and not just the finalists and winners, collectively illustrate the entire, multifarious face of a perpetually evolving hotel industry," declared Georges Panayotis, President and CEO of MKG Group and Founding President of the Hospitality Awards.The deliberation of different juries, under supervision of a bailiff led to the following awards:
HOSPACE 2014 – HOSPA's Annual Conference and Exhibition for Hospitality Finance, Revenue Management, IT and Commerce Professionals on 20 November at Sofitel London Heathrow, Terminal 5 – is the largest and most prestigious annual gathering of like-minded hospitality practitioners in the UK
TrustYou, working in conjunction with Donna Quadri-Felitti, Academic Chair and Clinical Associate Professor at NYU Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality and Tourism, developed a study to understand the effect that reviews have on hotel conversion rates and pricing. This study is the first of its kind using simulated booking engines and heat mapping technology to determine consumers' hotel choices.
The Oxford School of Hospitality Management at Oxford Brookes University has launched an ambitious alumni engagement campaign to strengthen relationships with thousands of its graduates who hold management and leadership positions in the hospitality industry, worldwide. Established to coincide with Oxford Brookes University's 150th anniversary in 2015, the campaign will provide a platform to celebrate the success of the School's alumni, will ensure they feel part of an exclusive professional network and will encourage them to support current students.
Condé Nast Traveller Luxury Travel Fair - an event dedicated to all aspects of luxury tourism - will take place for the second time on the 17th of March, 2015 in one of Moscow's most historic and iconic buildings, the Metropol Hotel. The world's leading travel magazine, Condé Nast Traveller, will hand pick the utmost professionals in luxury tourism for a private, one-day B2B event.
The travel industry understands how critical data analytics and mobile are to send contextual messages that sell more, reduce costs and serve their customers better. As an indication how critical this goal is 16 senior C level executives from the world's biggest airlines, airports, hotels, rail providers, tour operators and intermediaries are meeting the Monday before ITB at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to debate, collaborate and discover the new opportunities that data analysis and mobile can provide.
WYSE Travel Confederation will release the results of its recent analysis of the behaviours and attitudes of millennial travellers during the two-day youth travel programme at next month's World Travel Market (WTM). The Millennial Traveller report looks at travel trends amongst 18-35 year olds and is based on the results of a survey completed by over 6,000 young travellers from more than 100 countries in June this year.
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