Despite the essential importance of integrity to corporate leadership, achieving integrity—and even defining it—can be a challenge.
Travellers expect robots on their holidays by 2020
According to a Travelzoo survey, international travellers are largely comfortable with robots playing a role in their holiday, though some nations appear more cautious than others.
Europe hotel industry passes U.S. in growth for the first time since 2010
In U.S. dollar constant currency, Europe’s year-end 2015 RevPAR growth reached +6.9%, while growth in the U.S. hit +6.3%.
Rezidor buys prizeotel to get into the economy segment
Start-up prizeotel currently operates 3 hotels with a total of 555 rooms in Hamburg, Hannover and Bremen.
Industry Icons: A new eHotelier feature
In our new series we plan to celebrate the people who paved the way and made the industry what it is today and provide a reference for today’s professionals as well as the new professionals of our industry.
Small hotels get more direct bookings: research
New research has found that direct phone calls, emails and walk-ins account for one in every three reservations made within the small accommodation industry.
Eight Vīb hotels set to open this year
Best Western is also actively negotiating deals for Vīb properties, its niche brand for urban boutique travelers, in another eight cities across the U.S.
Aleph Hospitality set to open first hotel in Addis Ababa
The new company, founded by Bani Haddad, seeks to promote third-party management to grow the Middle East and African hotel landscape.
Booking.com launches Passion Search
Booking.com has launched a new technology to help travellers easily search and uncover destinations tied specifically to what interests them most, matching people’s unique passions and interests with the best destination and accommodation to suit their needs
Hilton Garden Inn introduces Instagram-based photo map guide
The HGI Travel Guide is the first travel handbook created using the Instagram’s photo map feature so travellers can capture and share images of their favorite “go to” spots.
