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Google + Volara Enabling Voice Based Contactless Guest Engagement and Touchless Room Controls
Volara | August 26, 2020
Guest privacy and wellbeing is central to the design of new hotel solution August 26, 2020 — New York — Partnership between Google and Volara is enabling hotels across the globe to deploy the best of Google, including a contactless guest engagement and touchless room controls solution that facilitates private, automated and live, conversational interactions between hotel guests and staff. Running on the Google Nest Hub, guests may ask the popular voice assistant to make calls, play music, watch shows, request amenities, book services, turn on/off TVs, increase the room temperature, adjust the lights, set a
Radisson Partners With Falaknaz Group for Radisson Blu Serviced Apartments, Islamabad in Pakistan
Radisson Hotel Group | August 26, 2020
Brussels / London - August 26, 2020 - Radisson Hotel Group is delighted to announce the signing of the Radisson Blu Serviced Apartments, Islamabad in Pakistan, the first internationally branded serviced apartments in the country. This marks the group’s second hotel in Pakistan, accelerating its ambition to have 10 hotels and 2,000 rooms in operation and under development across the country by 2025. Scheduled to open by Q2 2023, this addition brings the group’s South Asia portfolio to over 160 hotels in operation and under development. Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, is located on Potohar Plateau in the northwest of the country and i
COVID-19 Impact on U.S. Waterparks and Waterpark Resorts in 2020
David J. Sangree | August 26, 2020
By David Sangree, Nuresh Maredia The current COVID-19 crisis continues to have a significant negative effect on the waterpark industry. Waterparks play a major role in providing entertainment, supporting job creation, fostering small business opportunities, and contributing to robust economic growth. Due to COVID-19, many outdoor waterparks delayed their season openings while others have decided, or were mandated, not to open at all in 2020. Many resorts with waterparks and standalone indoor waterparks were forced to close for several months, and some have yet to reopen. With the largest database of waterparks and waterpark resorts ac
OTO Development Opens Hyatt Place National Harbor
OTO Development | August 26, 2020
SPARTANBURG, SC – August 26, 2020 – OTO Development, part of The Johnson Group, is pleased to announce the opening of its newest hotel, Hyatt Place National Harbor. Located within the 350-acre shopping, dining and entertainment destination of National Harbor, Maryland, this 7-story, 156 room all-suite hotel has picturesque views of a lively waterfront, on-site dining, fitness center and 1,900 square feet of flexible meeting and event space. The onsite restaurant, Bar Harbor, offers a casual dining experience featuring artisan pizzas and exceptional tacos paired with local microbrews. With spectacular views of the Potomac River, the spa
Viceroy Los Cabos Appoints Marta Hagan as Director of Sales and Marketing
Viceroy Los Cabos | August 26, 2020
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (August 25, 2020) – Viceroy Los Cabos is pleased to announce the appointment of Marta Hagan as Director of Sales and Marketing and Lorrianne Mesina as Director of Leisure Sales for San José Del Cabo’s premier oceanfront resort. With over a decade of exceptional leadership and management experience, Hagan will leverage her extensive knowledge to lead all sales, marketing, and revenue efforts for the award-winning resort, including creating and overseeing sales initiatives and infiltrating key markets. Mesina will also apply her two decades of sales experience to tap into critical leisure market segments to propel Vicer
Right Location? That Depends…
PolyU’s School of Hotel and Tourism Management | August 26, 2020
The factors that determine the importance of hotel location differ according to regions in a city, show Dr Hengyun Li, Dr Mimi Li of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and their co-researcher in a study published recently. Drawing on a Hong Kong case study, the researchers show that factors normally considered universally important when determining a location, such as traffic and transport, may not be as significant in some tourist destinations as in others. Their findings have obvious implications for hotel brands and their investors, among other players in the hospitality and tourism in
What Hotels Will Look Like in a Post-COVID World
HotStats | August 25, 2020
For hoteliers and hotel investors, COVID-19 has rushed through the industry like a flood. Without a doubt, it will leave hotels forever transformed in its wake. As the virus subsides, it will reveal a transformed landscape, and hotels will need to adjust to move operations to higher ground. Want a peek into what this post-COVID-19 world will look like for hotels? In this article, we gaze into the future, examine which marks will stay with the hotel industry and lay out what hotels will look like in a post-COVID-19 world. The New Shape of Hotels Post-COVID-19 It may be impossible to predict the future, but there are solid indicators th
Labor Day Weekend Will Be Longer, Last-Minute and Quieter This Year
Travelocity | August 25, 2020
DALLAS, Aug. 25, 2020 - After a summer travel season that saw travelers largely reserving trips last minute, close to home and with safety top of mind, Labor Day weekend – the last hurrah of summer – is looking like it, too, will feel a bit different this year. As Travelocity® reveals its travel predictions ahead of the end-of-summer holiday, demand, search and survey data shows this Labor Day will be longer, socially distant and all-important with many families venturing out for possibly the first time all summer. A Travelocity survey in May1 revealed that most families were postponing or planning their first leisure trip during C