This wide-ranging, international sentiment study examines the purchasing behaviour of travellers and the influence their spending has across industries. It also offers advice for marketers looking to capture the attention of this important group of consumers.
The hotel industry in 2023 is projected to surpass pre-pandemic levels of demand, nominal room revenue and state and local tax revenue, while inching closer to other key 2019 performance metrics, according to the American Hotel & Lodging Association’s 2023 State of the Hotel Industry Report.
Hotel real estate specialist Christie & Co has released its annual Business Outlook 2023 report - “Finding Clarity”, which highlights key hotel market activity, trends and challenges in 2022 and provides forecasts for 2023.
A major new report by World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) and Trip.com Group, together with Deloitte, reveals a heightened appetite for sustainable tourism amongst consumers, with 69% of travellers actively seeking sustainable travel options1.
Relais & Châteaux announces an ambitious sustainability action plan and publishes its first-ever sustainability report examining the global association’s environmental, social and societal impact and setting 15 objectives for 2025 and 2030. Sustainability Report: In Search of Hospitality in Harmony with the Natural World (the baseline year 2021) seeks to measure, share and accelerate the association's progress and highlight the positive contribution the group’s independent chefs, hoteliers and restaurateurs can have on the environment, diversity, and local communities and economies.
Today, Knowland, the world’s leading provider of data-as-a-service insights on meetings and events for hospitality, and ConferenceDirect, a full-service global meetings solution company, announced the results of a survey entitled, 2023 State of the Meetings Industry. The collaboration reveals insights to help industry professionals understand what meeting planners and event managers expect and will prioritize in 2023.
In November 2022, close to 300 delegates - including 100 corporate travel managers - gathered in Brussels for GBTA’s first-ever Global Business Travel Sustainability Summit. Participants from 20 countries, including business travel professionals, policymakers, NGOs, and experts, tackled the most critical sustainability issues impacting the business travel industry. Through panel discussions, breakouts and an interactive session on climate action planning, the business travel community showcased their strong commitment towards decarbonizing the industry. Revisit the discussion via our event highlights, including:
Here’s the good news this holiday shopping season: Consumers are open to trying new brands, which means the door is open for savvy consumer-facing companies to entice new customers by delivering on their fast-changing preferences.
CODE Hospitality, the hospitality industry network, has released their fourth official survey of the industry as a place to work, for 2022.
Travel marketplace Skyscanner is today publishing a new report exploring the latest trends in global travel. Titled Skyscanner Horizons: Outlook in 2023 as travellers redefine value, the report unpacks and explores a combination of consumer survey and proprietary search and booking data to provide a unique view of how travellers are thinking about their plans for the next 12 months.
2022 marked the Center for Hospitality Research's 30th anniversary, and thanks to the contributions of the faculty at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, our industry board members, staff, students, and everyone who participated in our programs and events, the CHR had a very successful year.
Marriott International, Inc., today released its 2022 Serve 360 Report presenting data from 2021 and demonstrating its Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) efforts toward the company’s 2025 Sustainability and Social Impact Goals. The Report can be accessed on the Serve 360 website.
We invite you to explore the state of luxury hospitality through the eyes of The Leading Hotels of the World, the unrivaled leader in luxury hospitality for more than nine decades. Glean insights from LHW executives on the industry’s outlook, trending travel behavior by LHW’s discerning travelers, and destinations and hotels to watch.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion is an area of intense focus and scrutiny across the travel and hospitality industry. Gender diversity, especially, is capturing attention because women represent a significant share of industry employees, yet a key industry theme is the challenges women face in obtaining promotions, earning the same salaries as men, and ascending into leadership positions.
Given LeadingHôtelières purpose (increase female leadership in the hospitality sector) and changes in theworld of work and employees’ expectations, we sought to understand the contributing factors and outcomesof flexibility in the hospitality industry (i.e., hotels). Key takeaways from the study are:
Trip.com Group, a leading global travel service provider, today released its inaugural "Sustainable Travel Consumer Report 2022", celebrating World Tourism Day. The report sheds light on the increased acceptance of sustainable travel and its implications for the travel industry and the wider world.
A new report published today by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), shows how Travel & Tourism can play a critical role in halting and reversing the destruction of nature.
Kempinski acknowledges that the travel industry must accelerate efforts to mitigate its contribution to climate change and is therefore pleased to have published its first Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report 2021.
2021 was a year of all-around recovery for RIU Hotels & Resorts, as well as a year full of courageous decision-making and new investments. Presented yesterday by RIU to its stakeholders in July, the report is the first of its kind, as, in addition to being the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility report, it also presents the hotel chain’s major indicators and projects in 2021.
While the overall U.S. jobs market has now surpassed pre-pandemic levels, the Leisure & Hospitality (L&H) industry still remains far behind in its recovery of lost, and desperately needed, jobs.