return of group business

Teamwork and Technology: Positioning Sales Staff to Capitalize on the Return of Group Business

While challenges persist, such as labor shortages, new or inexperienced meeting planners, food shortages, cost increases, and shorter booking windows, some travel markets have...
digitization

Essential Technology: Digitization Continues to Extend Across All Touchpoints, Benefiting Both Guests and Hotel...

Technology both facilitates hotel operations and enhances the guest experience, but it is the latter area that has seen the most advancements coming out...

Post-Boom Period: Slowing U.S. Hotel Industry Performance Growth Hitting Development and Transactions

The U.S. hotel sector posted healthy performance growth during the first quarter of 2023 despite ongoing economic concerns presenting more hurdles for the leisure...
Bob Habeeb

A Road Less Traveled: Maverick’s CEO on Eschewing Rules and Embracing Free Thinking

While considering names for the company he was establishing, Maverick Hotels and Restaurants CEO Bob Habeeb said “bells went off” when a friend who...

Accor Develops Strategic Priorities for New Divisions

During a Capital Markets Day to be held at the Group's head office, Accor presented its medium-term ambitions for a new chapter of growth....
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A Dual Target: Hotel Executives on What It Takes to Be ‘Bleisure’ Ready

The portmanteau “bleisure”—a mashup of “business” and “leisure”—denotes a phenomenon for our time, a time when technology makes it possible to work, even long-term,...
Keryn McNamara

Solid Foundation

What initially inspired you to get into the hospitality business? 
 I always gravitated toward taking care of people and wanted to be part of the...

ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions Acquires Nomadix and GlobalReach

STOCKHOLM—ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions has announced that it is acquiring Nomadix, Inc. and GlobalReach in the United States and the United Kingdom. With both...
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