HN World Panel

How to Leverage Blockchain Technology in the Travel and Hospitality Industries?

Blockchain technology is directly connected to the concept of a utopian metaverse, as the ideal vision of embodied internet can only be achieved through decentralization. This is where blockchain technology comes in, providing a secure, transparent,...

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Metaverse and Web3 in Hospitality

How to Leverage Blockchain Technology in the Travel and Hospitality Industries?

The Salmon of Doubt: What Tech Will Revolutionize the Hospitality Industry in 2023?

English author Douglas Adams, famous for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (and contributing to a Monty Python’s Flying Circus sketch), was a technology enthusiast. In a (very contemporary, even to this day) essay titled "How to Stop Worrying and...

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Information Technology

The Salmon of Doubt: What Tech Will Revolutionize the Hospitality Industry in 2023?

Marketing for Generation Alpha: How to Position Your Hotel Brand in the Metaverse?

Generation Alpha, also known as the "digital natives," is the first generation to be born and raised in a fully phygital world. This poses a challenge for marketers especially in our industry, as traditional advertising methods may not be as effecti...

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Metaverse and Web3 in Hospitality

What are hotel marketers’ Top Digital Marketing Resolutions to ensure success in 2023?

The post-pandemic travel demand, fueled by sheer lockdown-induced restlessness, accumulated consumer savings to the tune of trillions of dollars plus government handouts, has been fueling the 2022 travel rush.

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Digital Marketing in Hospitality

What are hotel marketers’ Top Digital Marketing Resolutions to ensure success in 2023?

Happy New Year! Top revenue leaders’ prophecies and resolutions for 2023.

Throughout 2022 The Revenue Optimization panel addressed a number of interesting topics including emerging decision making technologies, moving beyond RevPAR to focus on profitability, driving ancillary revenue, the evolving role of the Revenue Mana...

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Revenue Optimization

Happy New Year! Top revenue leaders’ prophecies and resolutions for 2023.

Should hoteliers allow group bookings via the OTAs?

The OTAs have been trying to enter the leisure group booking market for decades now. Traditionally, hoteliers have been reluctant to allow the OTAs to enter the lucrative group market, limiting their OTA exposure to the transient leisure and unmanag...

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Revenue Optimization

Should hoteliers allow group bookings via the OTAs?

Exploring the Practical Business Applications of the Metaverse. What do hotels need to know?

During the first three episodes of Polybius, Hospitality Net’s metaverse series focused on travel and hospitality, we discussed the basics (if you missed them, you can rewatch them here: https://www.hospitalitynet.org/polybius/).

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Metaverse and Web3 in Hospitality

Exploring the Practical Business Applications of the Metaverse. What do hotels need to know?

From "Avatar" to "Wallet": the definitive metaverse glossary for dummies

If companies want to get into the metaverse business, they first must master the "metaverse lingo." It’s easy to get lost in translation, with dozens of brand-new mysterious acronyms (NFT, DAO, DeFi...) and business neologisms (mining, minting, drop...

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Metaverse and Web3 in Hospitality

A hotel pass for unlimited stays?

Frontier Airlines, a budget airline based out of Denver, Colorado, announced an "all you can fly" promotion that offers pass holders unlimited domestic flights, including to Puerto Rico.

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Digital Marketing in Hospitality

A hotel pass for unlimited stays?

Is the fine line between data driven decision making and analysis paralysis unavoidable?

As most of us have already heard, 90% of the world’s data was created in the last ten years, and the amount of data created grows at a faster rate every year. The hotel industry is far from immune, with the various sources of business intelligence a...

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Revenue Optimization

Is the fine line between data driven decision making and analysis paralysis unavoidable?

HN World Panel

The HN World Panel is a thought-leadership platform where hospitality-industry leaders share insights, views, ideas and reactions on important issues and events currently affecting the hospitality business. Each panel is made up of a select group of experts, and industry leaders who, by invitation, contribute succinct commentary on viewpoints which are suggested by panel-champs.