As remote and hybrid work increases around the world, more and more people are taking advantage of workplace flexibility in their everyday lives by living and working on Airbnb. Nearly half of the nights booked on Airbnb in Q4 2021 were for stays of at least seven days. Similarly, one out of every five gross nights booked in Q4 were for stays of a month or longer.
The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI) celebrated excellence in travel marketing at the Adrian Awards Celebration on Wednesday, March 30, at The Boca Raton in Boca Raton, Florida. This year’s event, which took place outside New York City for the first time in over 25 years, was reimagined to provide attendees more time to socialize, celebrate, and enjoy the gracious outdoor and indoor spaces offered by The Boca Raton.
Radisson Hotel Group Americas today unveiled the new Radisson Inn & Suites brand, an upper midscale, limited-service hotel brand intended to defy the repetition and predictability of this popular hotel segment. With its unique lifestyle personality, the brand delivers a relatable and reassuring guest experience that is reliably differentiated, while offering owners flexible standards to drive profitability and higher returns with hotels in airport locations, metropolitan areas, and mixed development communities.
The U.S. Travel Association today led a delegation of 11 travel industry leaders to the U.S. Department of Commerce for a discussion with U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves focused on promoting safe business and professional travel in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and opportunities to help the travel and tourism sector fully and evenly recover.
SHOWTIME and The Ritz-Carlton, part of Marriott Bonvoy’s extraordinary portfolio of 30 brands, announced today a first-of-its-kind collaboration, reimagining the iconic concept of presidential suites in celebration of the new SHOWTIME anthology drama series THE FIRST LADY. Beginning in April, select Ritz-Carlton properties will feature presidential suites reimagined as The First Lady Suites, offering members of Marriott’s award-winning travel program, Marriott Bonvoy®, as well as the public a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in the worlds of the First Ladies portrayed in the series.
Destinations International, the world’s largest resource for official destination organizations and convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs), today announced the release of the 2022 Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Study on Destination Organizations which outlines the business case for diversity and offers data, insights and opportunities for destination organizations. The study can be downloaded here.
Airbnb and Expedia Group are releasing a new report – The Economic Impact of Short-Term Rentals in Arizona – by Rounds Consulting Group, Inc. (RCG). This new report was commissioned by Airbnb and Expedia Group to better understand how short-term rentals support cities, towns and the state. The study finds that short-term rentals are an integral part of the Arizona economy, with visitor spending lifting up local businesses, creating jobs, driving growth and generating significant tax revenue.
The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 HSMAI Lifetime Achievement Awards in marketing and public relations. Alice Diaz will be honored with the Winthrop W. Grice Award for Public Relations and Clayton Reid, Chief Executive Officer of MMGY Global, will be recognized with the Albert E. Koehl Award for Hospitality Marketing. HSMAI will celebrate both Diaz and Reid at the Annual Adrian Awards Celebration on March 30 at The Boca Raton in Boca Raton, Florida.
In a recent HSMAI webinar, “The Crystal Ball Is Less Cloudy: Using Traveler Sentiment Research as a Guidepost Forward,” Amir Eylon, president of Longwoods International, presented sentiment and visitor research on what travelers are thinking, how they are behaving, and how they are evolving to help hospitality professionals understand the road ahead. Here are five emerging trends he highlighted, based on data compiled by Longwoods Travel USA.
The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association (HSMAI) is proud to recognize the brightest minds in the hospitality industry with the 2021 HSMAI Top 25 Extraordinary Minds in Sales, Marketing, and Revenue Optimization. These professionals have been selected by a panel of senior industry executives and will be celebrated March 30 at The Boca Raton in Boca Raton, Florida, in conjunction with the annual Adrian Awards Celebration.
Destinations International and Longwoods International today released the “National Resident Sentiment Towards Tourism” benchmark study for both Canada and the United States. The report examines how Americans and Canadians assess the tourism industry’s growth—both its benefits to their lives as well as the potential pitfalls. The study results can be viewed here.
Officials of the California Lodging Investment Conference [CLIC], the only hospitality conference focused on the California hotel market, today released its final slate of speakers and updated its sponsor and exhibitor lists. Scheduled for March 10 at the JW Marriott Anaheim Resort, the one-day event is expected to draw approximately 300 attendees, including representatives from 11 brands, six lenders and other third-party hotel professionals.
Boston University School of Hospitality Administration (BU SHA) is proud to announce that its annual Hospitality Leadership Summit will take place in-person on Friday, April 1, 2022, at the Hotel Commonwealth in Boston. The Hospitality Leadership Summit brings together students, alumni, faculty, and the community to hear from world-renowned industry leaders on topics and trends shaping the future of the business. The Summit, which is produced by a committee of student leaders with guidance from SHA faculty, also serves as the capstone event of the BU School of Hospitality Administration’s year-long 40th Anniversary celebrations.
The Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) is proud to announce the members of its 2022 Americas Board of Directors and Executive Committee. The board is composed of senior travel and hospitality executives from a representative selection of HSMAI member organisations, led by new chair, John Washko, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Mohegan Sun, who begins a two-year term.
Today, MGM Resorts officially launches MGM Rewards, its new loyalty rewards program, offering enhanced benefits and new ways to earn for its millions of members worldwide. For the first time, non-gaming members will join their gaming counterparts and earn a currency - MGM Rewards Points - redeemable for complimentary dining, entertainment, hotel stays and much more.
The Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) is thrilled to announce that the 2021 Adrian Awards Celebration will return to a live, in-person format on March 30 at The Boca Raton, Boca Raton, Florida. This year’s event, taking place outside New York City for the first time in more than 25 years, has been reimagined to provide attendees more time to socialize, celebrate, and enjoy the exceptional outdoor and indoor spaces offered by The Boca Raton. Networking receptions will take place before and after the awards ceremony.
Building on its more than eight decades of innovation, Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH) was named a Hotel Visionary Award winner by Hospitality Technology in the Enterprise Innovator category for its new revenue management system, ChoiceMAX. The award, which honors hotels that deliver enterprise solutions, was presented to Choice at HT-NEXT 2021 in Scottsdale, Arizona. HT-NEXT is produced by Hospitality Technology and Hospitality Technology Next Generation.
The hotel industry will continue moving toward recovery in 2022, but the path will be uneven and potentially volatile, and full recovery is still several years away, according to the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA)’s 2022 State of the Hotel Industry Report. The report, which reveals shifts in consumer and business sentiment, was created in collaboration with AHLA Silver Partner Accenture and is based on data and forecasts from Oxford Economics and AHLA Platinum Partner STR.The top findings of the report include:
After nearly two years of pandemic-related stressors, Americans workers are burned out—and new data proves it.
According to the 2022 Hilton Trends Report, the desire to get outside is poised to continue this year — for business and leisure travelers alike. If you’ve made a New Year’s resolution to get fit, or simply enjoy focusing on your health in any season, there’s no better way to stay motivated than by taking your fitness goals with you on vacation.