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Federal Government Shutdown Would Cost U.S. Travel Economy $140 Million Per Day According to U.S. Travel Association Analysis
U.S. Travel Association | September 21, 2023
Six in 10 Americans would cancel or avoid trips by air in the event of a government shutdown WASHINGTON (September 21, 2023)—A federal government shutdown is estimated to cost the U.S. travel economy as much as $140 million a day, according to new analysis for the U.S. Travel Association—underscoring the dire consequences of Congress failing to pass a short-term extension by September 30. “Each day that passes will cost the travel economy $140 million, an unacceptable prospect that Congress must avoid before the clock runs out and the damages mount,” said U.S. Travel Association President and CEO Geoff Freeman. “The federal gove...
Travel Outlook Partners With MosaicVoice To Bring the Power of Artificial Intelligence to the Hospitality Industry’s Leading Call Center
Travel Outlook The Premier Hotel Call Center | September 21, 2023
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO (September 2023): Travel Outlook, The Premier Hotel Call Center™, is pleased to announce a partnership with MosaicVoice, a groundbreaking AI call center solution that offers real-time guidance to agents. MosaicVoice and Travel Outlook partnered to develop a revolutionary tool for Travel Outlook’s call center agents to help them handle hundreds of global clients while providing on-site level customer service. MosaicVoice gives Travel Outlook agents an edge over the competition by increasing call quality and significantly reducing the amount of time required for training. MosaicVoice provides on-screen guidance fo...
PPDS Launches New Philips Professional Soundbar Bringing Powerful Audio Experiences to Hotel Rooms With Philips Mediasuite TVs
PPDS | September 21, 2023
Open2 audio experience: Extending PPDS’ family of in-room entertainment, the new Philips Professional Soundbar with a powerful built-in subwoofer has been designed and configured exclusively for Philips MediaSuite TVs, delivering more powerful and immersive audio and entertainment hotel room experiences. Amsterdam, September 2023: PPDS, the exclusive global provider of Philips professional displays and dedicated AV software solutions, is delighted to announce the launch of the powerful two in one Philips Professional Soundbar HAL5023 with built-in subwoofer, designed for Philips MediaSuite TVs. Continuing PPDS’ accelerated ‘tot...
BWH Hotels Opens the Aiden by Best Western @ Flagstaff in Arizona
BWH Hotels | September 20, 2023
Flagstaff, Ariz. (September 20, 2023) – BWHSM Hotels today announced the opening of its newest Aiden hotel in Flagstaff, Arizona, offering guests a unique and unforgettable boutique experience in Northern Arizona. Signature to the brand, the Aiden by Best Western @ Flagstaff captures the appeal and aura of Northern Arizona through subtle touches throughout the property. “We are pleased to welcome the newest addition to our growing Aiden portfolio in a town so rich with cultural diversity, natural beauty, and history,’” said Brad LeBlanc, Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer, BWHSM Hotels. “Offering modern conveni...
Nevada’s Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, Spa and Casino Names Lucas Curcio as Director of Food and Beverage
Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, Spa and Casino | September 20, 2023
Incline Village, Nevada (September 20, 2023)– Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, Spa and Casino, a spacious resort nestled in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of North Lake Tahoe, announces Lucas Curcio as the new director of food and beverage. Curcio joins the property from Park Hyatt St. Kitts Christophe Harbour where he held the title of executive chef. “We are thrilled to have Lucas join our family at Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe,” said Kressa, Olguin, area director of marketing at Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, Spa and Casino. “With his help, we are excited to continue providing unforgettable dining experiences for our guests.” Or...
Stanly Ranch, Auberge Resorts Collection in Southern Napa Valley, California Welcomes New General Manager Laura McIver
Stanly Ranch, Auberge Resorts Collection | September 20, 2023
NAPA VALLEY, CALIF. (September 20, 2023) - Stanly Ranch, Auberge Resorts Collection, an award-winning luxury resort sprawling over 700-acres in Southern Napa Valley is pleased to announce the appointment of Laura McIver to General Manager. Laura comes to Stanly Ranch, Auberge Resorts Collection with an illustrious list of hospitality experience that encompasses over 15 years in the role of General Manager, including Miraval Resorts in Arizona, Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, and most recently, at Rancho Valencia Resort & Spa, a Relais & Châteaux in Rancho Santa Fe, California. “I am thrilled to be joining the Stanly Ranch...
Daniel Haughan Named General Manager of Margaritaville Beach Resort South Padre Island in Texas
Margaritaville Beach Resort South Padre Island | September 20, 2023
South Padre Island, Texas (Sept. 20, 2023) – Today, Margaritaville Beach Resort South Padre Island announces the appointment of Daniel Haughan as General Manager. Haughan joins Margaritaville Beach Resort South Padre Island, the first beachfront property in the Margaritaville portfolio, from Summit Hospitality Group in Nashville, Tennessee. Previously, he worked as General Manager at Canopy by Hilton in San Antonio and Homewood Suites in Moab, Utah. “I’m thrilled to be joining the Margaritaville team. Together, I am confident we can deliver one-of-a-kind experiences for guests from across Texas and beyond,” said Haughan. Highline H...
Maisons Pariente Opens Le Grand Mazarin in Paris, France
Le Grand Mazarin | September 20, 2023
PARIS, France (September 20, 2023) - Maisons Pariente, the luxury hotel collection founded by Patrick Pariente and his two daughters, Leslie Kouhana and Kimberley Cohen, is pleased to announce the opening of Le Grand Mazarin, the group's first urban property in the heart of the Marais District. Situated at the corner of Rue des Archives and Rue de la Verrerie, Le Grand Mazarin emulates the heritage of Paris through a vision of whimsical yet refined luxury. Renowned Interior architect Martin Brudnizki restored the landmark property, consisting of three 14th-century buildings, to its original grandeur. The hotel boasts 50 rooms, 11 suites...
GLō Brand Debuts in the State of Georgia With the Opening of GLō Best Western Pooler – Savannah Airport Hotel
BWH Hotels | September 20, 2023
Savannah, Ga (September 20, 2023) – Today, BWHSM Hotels announced the latest property to join its energetic and exciting boutique GLō brand, GLō Best Western Pooler - Savannah Airport Hotel. The newly constructed hotel features the boldly expressive designs, electric lobby and revolutionary shared social spaces for which the boutique brand is known. GLō is designed for the contemporary traveler who aims to work smarter, play harder and live healthier as they travel, offering spacious accommodations, upgraded amenities and tech-centric spaces with an eye-catching and invigorating interior. “As we expand the GLō brand we continue to ...
IHG’s avid hotels Opens First New York Property With avid hotel Brooklyn – Dyker Heights
IHG | September 20, 2023
avid hotels – part of IHG Hotels & Resorts (IHG), one of the world’s leading hotel companies with more than 6,000 destinations across 19 brands – today announced the opening of its first New York property in Brooklyn. Operating under the ownership of SUNSHINE BROOKLYN LLC, avid hotel Brooklyn – Dyker Heights is one of many new-to-market avid hotels opening this year. The 76-room hotel will deliver the brand hallmarks – basics done exceptionally well at a fair price – that guests have come to love. With each stay, guests can expect right-size rooms designed with sound sleep in mind – complete with black-out roller sha...
Sports Illustrated Resorts and Travel + Leisure Co. Launch the Ultimate Sports-Themed and Active Lifestyle Resort Network in Leading U.S. College Town
Sports Hospitality Ventures | September 20, 2023
ORLANDO, Fla. (Sept. 20, 2023) – Travel + Leisure Co. (NYSE:TNL), the world’s leading membership and leisure travel company, and Sports Hospitality Ventures, LLC, hotel and resorts licensee for the Sports Illustrated brand across North America and the Caribbean, introduced a new concept for a network of future sports-themed resort and lifestyle complexes located in popular college towns near universities with devoted fan bases. Every Sports Illustrated Resorts campus is expected to feature a full-service hotel, a vacation club, and residential condominiums – all of which will share a unique, cohesive design that immerses guests and ...
CEO Spotlight: Former Google Exec Jens Munch Shares His Journey of Disrupting Hospitality With AI as Co-founder of FLYR for Hospitality (Formerly Know
Alan Young | September 20, 2023
By Alan Young, Hospitality Industry Advisor, College Professor, and Co-Founder of Puzzle Partner The technology sector is defined by constant motion: the relentless exchange, disruption, and evolution of big, innovative ideas brought to the table by bold, innovative minds. The most influential players in the space are those with a seemingly insatiable appetite for change and optimization, and it is precisely that hunger that has occupied Jens Munch throughout his career. Within the hospitality industry, Munch is known as the Founder and CEO of Pace Revenue – a platform created in 2016 to revolutionize how hospitality approaches revenue m...
Valor Hospitality Partners Continues Middle East Expansion With Acquisition of Second Oman Property
Valor Hospitality Partners | September 20, 2023
Atlanta, Sept. 20, 2023 –Valor Hospitality Partners, a leading global hotel management company, has announced the acquisition of its second property in Duqm, Oman—marking seven total properties in the Middle East and expanding Valor Hospitality’s Middle East portfolio to 1200+ keys and brings the Oman portfolio to 300+ keys. In partnership with Marriott International, the boutique property will be branded Four Points by Sheraton and owned by Ezz Assas International and will open in 2024. The Four Points by Sheraton Duqm will have 85 rooms and is anticipated to reflect Valor Hospitality’s dedication to ‘travel reinvented,’ providi...
HFTP Announces February Dates for Inaugural Digital Horizons 360 Symposium, an Exclusive European Event Exploring Emerging Hospitality Technologies
HFTP | September 20, 2023
AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA (September 20, 2023) — Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®) is pleased to announce its new European event: Digital Horizons 360 Symposium (DH360). This invitation-only symposium will span over two-days, February 20-21, at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. DH360 is a non-sales event for hospitality leaders to participate in roundtable discussions on the technologies set to have the biggest industry impact in Europe. Co-located with DH360 will be HFTP’s Entrepreneur 20X start-up hospitality technology pitch competition, the first of three in 2024. Created in respon...
HSMAI 2023 Sales Leader Forum Set for November 8, 2023 in Long Beach, California
HSMAI | September 20, 2023
McLean, VA (Sept. 20, 2023) – The Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) Sales Leader Forum will take place in Long Beach, CA on Nov. 8, 2023. This year’s event, organized by HSMAI’s Sales Advisory Board, will focus on “Leading the Way,” when it comes to important trends, critical insights, and evolving customers and what they mean for leading hotel sales teams today and in the future. Held annually, the HSMAI Sales Leader Forum completes the series of HSMAI Commercial Strategy events for 2023, following ROC Americas and the Marketing Strategy Conference. The event aims to advance the hotel sales ...
AHLA Foundation Announces Expansion of Initiatives Aimed at Elevating Women in Hospitality
AHLA Foundation | September 20, 2023
ForWard reflects the industry’s commitment to investing in talent, creating a platform to increase the representation of women in leadership positions WASHINGTON, DC (September 20, 2023) – AHLA Foundation, the charitable arm of the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA), today announced its new ForWard initiative to support the advancement of women into hotel industry leadership and ownership. The ForWard initiative represents the merger of ForWard – which began as an AHLA event – and the Castell Project into one brand offering a suite of resources, events, professional development opportunities, and community-building f...
How P2P Software Will Help Hoteliers Master Their 2024 Budget
Johannes Vocke | September 20, 2023
By Johannes Vocke Budgeting effectively is a challenge at the best of times, but hoteliers looking to set their 2024 budgets have to do so amid lingering uncertainty across the travel industry. While travelers may be more excited than ever to set out on their next adventure, economic factors are changing the way people travel and how much it costs to provide exceptional guest experiences. Accenture reports that 71 percent of consumers plan to sustain or increase their spending on leisure travel next year. This trend gives hoteliers ample opportunity to recover revenue lost during the pandemic and achieve new top-line growth. CWT proje...
Innovative Wellness Solutions to Drive Future Hotel Growth
Adam and Larry Mogelonsky | September 20, 2023
By Adam and Larry Mogelonsky Wellness at hotels is perhaps the biggest win-win for our businesses besides sustainability investments which help the environment. For you, wellness means more revenue per guest either in add-on experiences or the ability to grow nightly rate, while the guest it leads to improved wellbeing. This is the big, big, big picture, and focusing on the micro of figuring out your brand’s unique approach within the quite ambiguous term that is ‘wellness’ is the 99% perspiration. Alas, if there’s one guiding light, it is technology. Welltech and spatech are becoming increasingly democratized due to the princip...
APS Celebrates 100th Interface Milestone
APS® (Above Property® Services) | September 20, 2023
Above Property Services (APS®) partners with best-in-class hotel technology brands to provide our hotels with powerful tools to seamlessly manage their hotel operations from a single platform NAPLES, FL– (September 20, 2023) – Above Property® Services (APS®), Services, a leading provider of hotel and travel technology solutions provider, has announced that it has reached a significant milestone with the launch of its 100th interface. The company's robust suite of property management system (PMS) integrations now includes connections to most major hotel technology suppliers, making it one of the most comprehensive offerings in the in...
CKI Solutions Transitions to Compostable Packaging
CKI Solutions | September 20, 2023
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.—September 20, 2023—Cadence Keen Innovations (d/b/a CKI Solutions), serving the hospitality industry, including cruise, for more than 20 years, is putting plastic packaging in the past and transitioning to compostable packaging for all its mattress and pillow encasements, bed doublers, as well as all other products using plastic or poly bags, including its Bed MadeEZ® Bed Maker. “The transition has already begun and will be included in all new products as they come in from the factories,” says Rachel Montross, Senior Marketing Manager for CKI Solutions. “We are moving away from zippered plastic packaging to ...
Travel Recovery Continues As Hoteliers Embrace Upselling With 70% Increase in Summer 2023, According to Mews Data Snap
MEWS | September 20, 2023
Revenue from parking lots, meeting rooms, and other spaces increased 22% YOY, while upselling increased 31% [New York, NY – Sept. 20, 2023] – Mews, the industry-leading hospitality cloud, today released the Mews Data Snap, a real-time measure of hospitality’s performance during the summer of 2023 (June, July, and August). The report also compares this year’s data to summer 2022 to pinpoint how the hospitality sector is changing. Based on data from Mews partners worldwide, the Mews Data Snap unpacks hospitality’s performance across five key areas: occupancy, ADR and RevPar, online check-ins and upsells, and additional bookable ...
IDeaS’ Award-Winning G3 Revenue Management Software Now Available in Spanish and French
IDeaS | September 20, 2023
LONDON—Sept. 20, 2023—IDeaS, a SAS company, the world’s leading provider of hospitality revenue management software and services, announced today its flagship product, G3 Revenue Management Software (RMS), is now available in Spanish and French. The software is already available in English, German, and Chinese, with Japanese to quickly follow in the future. Front-desk staff in non-English speaking countries may be fluent in English, but often back-office personnel are not. Whenever possible, IDeaS speaks, operates, and supports hoteliers in their native languages. From sales to implementation to support, IDeaS is focused on the requi...
AC Hotel Irvine in California Welcomes Yuni Hunter as General Manager
Pacific Hospitality Group | September 19, 2023
IRVINE, California [Sep. 19, 2023] - AC Hotel Irvine proudly introduces Yuni Hunter as its new General Manager. In this role, Hunter will oversee and manage the daily operations of the property. With over 16 years of senior hospitality leadership, Hunter brings a wealth of experience and industry expertise to the Irvine-based hotel. She has overseen several new hotel openings, managed renovations, and reactivations during the 2019 COVID-19 pandemic. Previous roles include General Manager at Springhill Suites Los Angeles Downey, General Manager at Springhill Suites Huntington Beach by Marriott, General Manager at Interstate Hotels, and Gener...
OUTRIGGER Appoints Two New Waikiki General Managers, Kiana Beimes and Cecilia Hamao
OUTRIGGER | September 19, 2023
OUTRIGGER Resorts & Hotels is pleased to announce Kiana Beimes as General Manager of the OHANA Waikiki East by OUTRIGGER and Ceci Hamao as General Manager of the OUTRIGGER Waikiki Beachcomber Hotel. Both Beimes and Hamao will oversee their respective hotel operations in addition to developing strategic plans to ensure profitability and growth. Earlier this year, Beimes was appointed Hotel Manager of the OHANA Waikiki East by OUTRIGGER; before that she was Area Director of Front Services for the property in addition to the OUTRIGGER Waikiki Beachcomber Hotel. She was also Assistant Area Director for the same hotels and OUTRIGGER Waikiki...
