Hotels are not just offering up their under-utilized meeting rooms, they’re reconfiguring other areas of their properties to create additional workspaces for a growing mobile workforce.

Holiday Inn Express London – Vauxhall Nine Elms, Holiday Inn Express Leigh – Sports Village and Holiday Inn Express Wigan in Greater Manchester add to the 219 Holiday Inn Express hotels currently open in Europe.

Ed Scheetz, CEO of Chelsea Hotels talks about the restoration of the Chelsea Hotel, the hotel industry in New York, restaurants in hotels, and the most important characteristics of a successful executive in the hospitality industry.

By Peg McGregor: Providing tech tools to the customer can be differentiation points that increase sales and brand loyalty. Combined with better staff productivity, they can help help you significantly improve your bottom line.

Graham’s preceding post was GM at one of India’s legends of luxury, The Leela Palace Udaipur, Rajasthan, where he focused not only on operations and customer satisfaction but also on growth strategies.

Working up through the leadership ranks in operations, finance, revenue management, and Sales & Marketing, Simon was promoted to his first GM role at the Courtyard Seoul in 2009, where he successfully opened the first Courtyard in South Korea.

In 2000, he had his first stint with Four Seasons joining as Executive Chef of the Four Seasons Ritz in Lisbon. Thereafter he had several Executive Chef appointments within Europe, South America and Russia.

The 600-room property, to be completed in 2016, marks the brand’s fourth Mexican destination.

The 292-room hotel, formerly a Hilton Hotels & Resorts-branded property, is located in the Tri-Valley area within the East Bay region of greater San Francisco.