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COVID-19: Impact on Forward Hotel Bookings in Key European Markets
STR | July 2, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented challenges for global hospitality, with travel restrictions and lockdown measures forcing hotel closures and performance declines that exceed the levels witnessed during the global financial crisis and other challenging times for the industry. An area of the industry where the impact continues to evolve is business on the books, or reservations booked for future dates. To provide a forward-looking view of the COVID-19 impact on hotel performance, STR utilized data from Forward STAR to analyze business on the books for key European hotel markets Forward STAR data is processed on a ...
Ivonne Prugnaud Joins GuestTek as Managing Director EMEA
GuestTek | October 1, 2019
Assumes Role October 1, 2019 Calgary, Alberta – October 1, 2019 – GuestTek Interactive Entertainment Ltd., the global leader in providing innovative and interactive technology solutions for the hospitality industry, is pleased to announce and welcome Ms. Ivonne Prugnaud as Managing Director, EMEA. Ivonne has gained over 20 years of senior management experience in IPTV and the hospitality industry - most recently as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Anevia. She is widely recognized as a passionate leader in the luxury hospitality space and has a proven track record in empowering geographically dispersed sales teams, managi...
Is Europe on a Rebound?
Georges Panayotis | June 20, 2018
by Georges Panayotis 200 years later, Europe could once again become a great world power. With its millenary history, it could return to the big leagues through the digital field. Emmanuel Macron has made it very clear: he wants to push French start-ups and promote the influence of digital companies. France and its European neighbors may be late in the game, but we have our card to play. In France, the game is changing, and we are shifting up a gear. Europeans, especially France, are starting with 20 years of lag time compared to the United States in the development of digital entrepreneurship! Fair enough! But we have our strengths... ...
GDPR: Why Hoteliers Should Take the new EU Regulations Very Seriously
Stuart Pallister | May 30, 2018
By Stuart Pallister New EU rules on data protection - or GDPR - , seven years in the making, come/came into effect on May 25. The advice from IT experts to hoteliers is: take the new rules very seriously or risk heavy fines of up to 20 million euros or four percent of the company's global turnover, whichever is higher. At the recent Young Hoteliers Summit, staged at Ecole hôteliere de Lausanne, Nick Price, CEO of NetSys Technology and CIO of citizenM Hotels, touched on the challenges posed in a keynote address. He said the new General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR was significant as the hospitality industry holds a lot of dat...
