Growth Advisors International Network - GAIN, a leading global advisory firm specializing in the travel, hospitality, and MICE innovation and technology sectors, proudly announces the naming of Karen O'Neill as Senior Partner.
Travelodge, the UK’s first budget hotel, has launched a recruitment drive to fill over 300 jobs across its business. The company operates over 600 hotels across the UK, Ireland and Spain, with 47,000 rooms, employing more than 13,000 people. Travelodge is committed to flexible, secure employment, reflected in its ‘Find where you Belong’ company initiative, which ensures inclusivity, support and flexibility for all its colleagues to be their true self at work and belong.
Ensuring quality assurance in higher education is vital for maintaining institutional credibility and achieving academic excellence. Accreditation is a key instrument in this process, providing benchmarks for quality and validating the know-how of both institutions and individuals.
In the ultra-competitive realm of higher education, hospitality schools are often erroneously regarded as mere training grounds for future hotel staff or kitchen helpers in hotel resorts. This misconception stems from those unfamiliar with the industry who often conflate vocational hospitality training with the broader curriculum of a hospitality business school. Noted Food & Beverage entrepreneur and EHL Hospitality Business School alumnus Rahul Khanna chalks this up to the outdated idea that a hospitality manager is just “serving tables and peeling onions.”
The International Society of Hospitality Consultants (ISHC) in conjunction with the authors of Hotel Investments – Issues & Perspectives, NYU International Hospitality Industry Investment Conference, and AHLA Foundation have awarded the third annual Celebrating Diversity Scholarship to Jessica Duan of Georgia State University and Osman Milla of the University of the District of Columbia.
With days filled with back-to-back meetings and their sights trained firmly on the organization’s short-term and long-term goals, leaders often forget to make time for their personal development and learning.
Irvan Sutiono’s insatiable curiosity has led him on a fascinating journey across continents. As a young student, he was drawn to the idea of fostering human progress through technology, and initially wanted to pursue bioengineering with a focus on human evolutionary biology.
U.S. hotels added 700 jobs to their payrolls in June, according to the latest government data that shows the nationwide workforce shortage continues to make it difficult for hotels to fill open jobs.
Melissa Lou is a woman with many interests, and is unafraid of pursuing them. Currently a Senior Venture Architect at Boston Consulting Group X (X.Ventures) which invents, builds, scales and invests in startups with the globally established companies; she had previously co-founded Delegate, an events startup that provides technological tools to create offline, virtual, and hybrid event environments.
Craddock Terry Hotel, an award-winning boutique hotel located in the heart of Lynchburg, is pleased to announce the appointment of Tonya Sweetser as the new General Manager. With her exceptional leadership skills and extensive experience in the hospitality industry, Tonya is set to take the Craddock Terry Hotel to new heights.
After careful review and conducting in-depth interviews, the HFTP nominating committee — comprising past HFTP Global past presidents, advisory council chairs and chapter presidents — has selected the HFTP members who will replace the outgoing directors of the HFTP Global Board. Here is the official slate for the 2024-2025 HFTP Global Executive Committee and Board of Directors.
Whether you’ve completed an undergraduate degree and want to continue studying or you’re a seasoned professional doing a master's program to develop your career, there’s plenty to think about. For example, what accreditations should you look for, how will you structure your graduate degree program around your existing commitments, and what universities have the best links with employers in your industry?
In a major initiative to train current and emerging hospitality industry leaders, Cygnett Hotels & Resorts has recently introduced its Comprehensive Cygnett Leadership Development Program (CLDP).
23 years ago Regional VP and GM Armando Kraenzlin of Four Seasons Resorts Maldives created a Hospitality Apprenticeship program for local Maldivians. It’s the longest-running and most successful of its kind in the Indian Ocean, with 858 graduates since its inception in 2001. Back then, Armando often paddled between islands seeking talented young people for his new “school” where they could learn the art of hospitality under his tutelage. Now there are many more applicants than spaces available.
According to UN Tourism’s data, the sector is experiencing a rapid recovery in Asia and the Pacific, with arrivals reaching 82% of pre-pandemic levels in the first quarter of 2024, boosted by the re-opening of many destinations throughout 2023. Now, with full recovery on the horizon, the latest joint meeting of UN Tourism’s Commission for Asia and the Pacific (CAP) and its Commission of South Asia (CSA), focused on the challenges and opportunities for creating a positive and lasting transformation.
Mental health is an increasingly prevalent topic of conversation these days, with higher rates of anxiety, depression, and distress reported by Gen Zers than any other age group and the social stigma around it lifting. For young people in their study years in particular, mental health and well-being is critical at a potentially stressful time of life
On the heels of another year of industry-leading net rooms growth, Hyatt has appointed two new Senior Vice Presidents to support the business’s ongoing growth journey in the Europe, Africa and Middle East (EAME) region.
CESSA University and Sommet Education have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to expand educational opportunities in the Hospitality Industry. This alliance will allow CESSA students to carry out academic exchanges at the prestigious Les Roches institution, with campuses in Switzerland andSpain; and Glion Institute of Higher Education, with campuses in Switzerland and England, strengthening its global proficiency.
With a never-ending to-do list and only so many hours in the day, time management is an essential skill for successful CEOs and other high-level professionals. But how do they juggle their focus between current challenges, short-term targets, and long-term goals and still make time to enjoy some semblance of a personal life?
In a significant initiative for skill development in Indian hospitality undertaken by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), an 18-month Vocational Education and Training (VET) Professional Diploma program offered in collaboration with EHL Hospitality Business School of Switzerland and delivered at AISSMS, Pune. The program has now been running very successfully for the last two years with over 100 students on the verge of graduating and joining the industry.