By Katie McFadden: Hotels might seem to have secure locks and they give added security by providing safe's for your valuables, but someone can still manage to steal from you while you're in your hotel room, without you even realizing it through fake Wi-Fi connections.

Expedia, Inc., the world’s largest online travel company, released data from the first nine months of 2012 indicating that the company has partnered with a larger number of small hotel partners, defined as hotels with 50 rooms or less, and an increase in net transactions from this sector by nearly 30 percent year on year for that period. Small hotels represent about half of the hotels in Expedia’s direct global inventory.

Some people prefer to read a magazine in the restroom, but we’d much rather gaze out over a stunning view. There’s nothing we love more than exotic sights, no matter where we’re taking in the view — the shower, tub, or elsewhere. From Hong Kong to Miami, Boston to Barcelona, here are our favorite hotel views from the best seat in the house.

By Max Starkov: For years now hotel marketers have claimed that search engines are on the way out as a viable marketing and distribution channel in hospitality. These claims, of course, have been followed with boasts of “the next big thing” to save hotel distribution – from social media to retargeting to the mobile channel. Regardless of what some in the industry say, the search engines are still alive and well. There is a reason why the search engines are travel consumers’ favorite travel research and planning tool. Google in particular dominates hotel search; results provide deep and relevant information, the best mapping and directions, extensive customer reviews via Zagat’s acquisition and now provide real-time hotel availability and pricing via Google Hotel Finder. No other meta search or travel site comes even close to match the richness and relevancy of hotel information provided by Google.

By Noelle E. Ifshin: Managers are the front line representation of your business and must effectively work with a diverse group of people. They must live and breathe your company core values and practices. Unfortunately, many managers lack fundamental training in people skills, which prevents them from being truly successful in running your business. Here are 4 common mistakes managers make in working with people.

By Alan Campbell: Well here we are people, it's that time and we haven't scored as of yet. It was supposed to be a good year, but that has been slow to happen. Is going into the second half going to be the same, or are we going to score?

This new report, by IHG, predicts strong growth in outbound Asian travel and the emergence of relatively unknown cities in developing markets as new travel destinations.

By Steve Cokkinias: A veteran of the hospitality industry, Steve has many entertaining stories up his sleeve. Each Wednesday he will share a story on ehotelier.

ReviewPro, the global leader in the management of the hotel sector's online reputation, has published a ranking of the 10 hotels in Berlin which have been the most highly valued by the users of more than 100 travel websites over the last 12 months. The classification has been possible thanks to the Global Review Index ™, an algorithm developed by ReviewPro and calculated in this occasion for 369 Berlin hotels with 3 to 5 stars.