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Is the EU About to Make Green Claims a Luxury for Hotels?
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Is the EU About to Make Green Claims a Luxury for Hotels?

Imagine this: you run a 30-room independent hotel in Spain. You’ve invested in solar panels, eliminated single-use plastics, and source food from local suppliers. Guests praise your efforts. Yet when travellers search on Booking.com, your property d...

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Professor of Sustainability Marketing, University of Surrey
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4 September 2025University of SurreyNational & International Policy
Is the EU About to Make Green Claims a Luxury for Hotels?
L.A. passed a $30 minimum wage for tourism workers. Then came the warring ballot measures
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L.A. passed a $30 minimum wage for tourism workers. Then came the warring ballot measures

It’s the summer of the burn-it-down ballot measure in Los Angeles. For the past three months, labor unions and business groups have been locked in a protracted fight over a law, approved by the City Council in May, hiking the minimum wage for hotel ...

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L.A. passed a $30 minimum wage for tourism workers. Then came the warring ballot measures29 August 2025Los Angeles TimesNational & International Policy
L.A. passed a $30 minimum wage for tourism workers. Then came the warring ballot measures
The locals are revolting…but do they have a point?
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The locals are revolting…but do they have a point?

Last year saw the emergence of a new spectacle, with local residents in some major European tourist destinations undertaking very vocal protests against tourism, often armed with water pistols, to provide an amusing and newsworthy nuisance to some v...

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Chief Investment Officer (CIO) at Global Asset Solutions
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by Robert Walters
27 August 2025Global Asset SolutionsNational & International Policy
The locals are revolting…but do they have a point?
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AHLA applauds establishment of the White House’s 2028 Summer Olympics planning committee

The American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA), the leading voice representing all segments of the hotel industry, today announced its strong support for the White House’s creation of a federal task force to prepare for the 2028 Summer Olympic Game...

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AHLA applauds establishment of the White House’s 2028 Summer Olympics planning committee12 August 2025AH&LANational & International Policy
AHLA applauds establishment of the White House’s 2028 Summer Olympics planning committee
Tourism Highlighted as Driver of Structural Transformation at Third UN Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries
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Tourism Highlighted as Driver of Structural Transformation at Third UN Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries

Hosted by UN Tourism, the side event “Tourism: Driving Economic Diversification and Inclusion in LLDCs,” brought together government representatives, UN agencies, and bilateral development actors to explore how sustainable and rural tourism can dive...

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Tourism Highlighted as Driver of Structural Transformation at Third UN Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries12 August 2025UN TourismNational & International Policy
Tourism Highlighted as Driver of Structural Transformation at Third UN Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries
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CHLA Applauds Governor’s 2025 Retail Crime Prevention Efforts

On behalf of California’s more than 6,000 hotels and 235,000 hotel employees, the California Hotel and Lodging Association released this statement in response to Gov. Newsom’s announcement that the CHP-led Organized Retail Crime Task Force so far in...

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CHLA Applauds Governor’s 2025 Retail Crime Prevention Efforts 8 August 2025CH&LANational & International Policy
CHLA Applauds Governor’s 2025 Retail Crime Prevention Efforts
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U.S. Travel Association Applauds Creation of White House Task Force on the 2028 Summer Olympics

The U.S. Travel Association today announced the launch of the America’s Sports and Travel Mega Event Coalition (ASTMEC)—a national alliance of sports, travel and business leaders dedicated to helping the United States successfully host a once-in-a-g...

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U.S. Travel Association Applauds Creation of White House Task Force on the 2028 Summer Olympics 8 August 2025U.S. Travel AssociationNational & International Policy
U.S. Travel Association Applauds Creation of White House Task Force on the 2028 Summer Olympics
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Hospitality industry urges passage of state legislation requiring human trafficking training

Today, state legislators and leaders from the hospitality industry convened to urge passage of House Bill 1286, which would require short-term rental operators—in addition to hotels and other lodging establishments—across Pennsylvania to provide hum...

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Hospitality industry urges passage of state legislation requiring human trafficking training 6 August 2025AH&LANational & International Policy
Hospitality industry urges passage of state legislation requiring human trafficking training
UN Tourism Celebrates 1st Regional Congress of the Tourism Law Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean in Punta Cana
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UN Tourism Celebrates 1st Regional Congress of the Tourism Law Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean in Punta Cana

UN Tourism successfully held the First Regional Congress of the Tourism Law Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean, under the theme "Legal perspectives towards sustainable tourism," on 15 and 16 July Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

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UN Tourism Celebrates 1st Regional Congress of the Tourism Law Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean in Punta Cana31 July 2025UN TourismNational & International Policy
UN Tourism Celebrates 1st Regional Congress of the Tourism Law Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean in Punta Cana