Monte-Carlo Socit des Bains de Mer (SBM), world renowned owner and operator of iconic luxury hotels and resorts in the Principality of Monaco, Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG), one of AsiaÕs leading developers and operators of world-class, luxury, integrated entertainment and resort facilities, have announced the formal establishment of a strategic partnership. This partnership includes a mutual commitment to enhance the respective businesses and brands of each company.
Sojern creates a European hub for RevDirect, a multichannel direct booking offering
Sojern, travel’s leading performance marketing engine, has announced the opening of its new office in Dublin focused on servicing the European market with its RevDirectÊoffering, a multichannel, pay-for-performance, direct bookings solution for independent hoteliers. Sojern brings its specialised data set of 350 million global traveller profiles, including billions of predictive travel intent data points to target travellers across multi-channels.
Airbnb fires back at hotel industry
Airbnb is hitting back after the hotel industry touted its lobbying efforts against the online room-sharing service. The company’s head of policy, Christopher Lehane, accused hoteliers of price-gouging customers and called their fight against Airbnb a Òcampaign to punish the middle-classÓ in a letter Wednesday.
Lodging Interactive launches social influencer marketing services for hotels
Lodging Interactive, an award winning digital marketing and social media engagement agency exclusively serving the hospitality industry,Êhas announced the launch of its Social Voices Influencer Marketing Services for the hospitality industry. Social Voices provides hotels with the ability to leverage the social influence of others to drive brand awareness and new revenue opportunities for their properties.
Travel industry investment into data and analytics to rise substantially in 2017
Travel is awash with data and companies are loosening their purse strings to get to the insight this provides, according to EyeforTravelÕs new industry-wide State of Data and Analytics in Travel Report 2017. Amongst respondents, who came from all verticals in the industry, 74.5 per cent report that they expect budget increases in 2017.
Brexit: Hospitality industry warns of worker shortages
The Home Office is lookingÊat plans for ÒBarista VisasÓ and new rules for migrants, afterÊhospitality industry experts warned many business will close. The British Hospitality Industry has warned that hotels, restaurants and bars will be forced to shut as there is a severe shortage of British workers and a steady stream of migrants is needed.
Hotel industry details plans to fight Airbnb
The hotel industry is ramping up its Washington profile as it looks to counter the online home-sharing service, Airbnb. The industry’s political action committee, HotelPAC, spent money in 225 congressional races during the 2016 election, a record for the group. During the election cycle, they raised $1.5 million and gave out $1.3 million to congressional candidates, breaking their own fundraising and spending records.
Blueground enters Dubai’s hospitality market
Blueground, a hospitality company offering high quality accommodation to business executivesÊand expats, has made its entry into Dubai’s hospitality industry. Based in Greece, Blueground’s business model operates by leasing existing high-end residential properties in the most sought after areas, upgrading and converting them into best-in-class rentals, thus avoiding the lengthy and capital intensive construction process of traditional hotel operators.
Google package move Ôwill boost innovationÕ
Trade experts do not see GoogleÕs impending entry into the package holiday market as a threat and say it will boost innovation. GoogleÕs package product will search for combined flight and hotel deals and has been available to a proportion of users since the beginning of the year.
Live! On Air: W Fort Lauderdale debuted new look during first-ever hotel drone dash relay race
W Hotels and M Live brought high-tech, high-speed drone dash to Fort Lauderdale and Facebook Live Broadcast to celebrate the completed $55 million hotel renovation.
