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Defining Blended Travel and Its TAM Through Marriott Hotel Examples
Adam and Larry Mogelonsky | October 30, 2024
By Adam and Larry Mogelonsky Every hotelier is already thinking about ways to take advantage of the growth of remote work and bleisure in the post-pandemic travel landscape. Best described now as ‘blended travel’ due to the many different types of travel it encompasses, let’s take a look at what Marriott is doing so you can learn from their example, as well as convince you a bit more about the opportunity here – the total addressable market (TAM) as they say. Whether remote work, temporary relocation, staycation or digital nomadism, with these emerging blended travel dispositions in mind, it behooves hotels to adjust their commerc...
How to Attract Remote Workers to Your Hotel
Expedia Group Media Solutions | March 30, 2023
The way we work has drastically changed in the wake of the pandemic, which isn’t unlike the changes we’ve seen in travel. Despite some companies rolling out return-to-office initiatives, remote and hybrid work arrangements continue to play a large role in travel. In our research, we found that over one-third of business travelers are entirely remote, and approximately 85% of business travelers work partially remote as part of a hybrid work model. During the pandemic, remote work meant holding conference calls in our kitchens and blurring our home backgrounds to create a sense of separation between work and home. Now, with travel ba...
Staycationers Behaving Badly
PolyU’s School of Hotel and Tourism Management | November 22, 2022
COVID-19 has changed how we holiday: out with crowding into airports to fly to distant resorts; in with staying close to home. Although this might seem an effective way to support local tourism while containing the virus, research by Ph.D. student Mr Wilson Au, Dr Nelson Tsang and Dr Clare Fung of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University reveals a downside of “staycationing”. In Hong Kong, many holidaymakers confined to local hotels during the pandemic have begun to behave badly, taking a toll on staff’s mental health. This timely study highlights the need for hotels to remove incentives ...
Revenge Travel in 2022: Are We Really Traveling With a Vengeance?
Gregg Rockett | June 6, 2022
By Gregg Rockett A recent CNN column explores the nature of ‘Revenge Travel’, a buzzword that has gained increasing attention in the media. The article ponders the term’s meaning and congruence relative to the true motivations of the travel market as travel restrictions become relaxed and more countries open to tourism. With that article as a backdrop, a commentary piece by columnist Mark Footer of the South China Morning Post takes issue with the term ‘Revenge Travel’. He uses the examples of ‘staycation’ and ‘bleisure’ travel as buzzwords that more accurately convey the trends these terms are meant to describe, a...
IHG® Hotels & Resorts Reveals New Data About the US Summer Vacation in 2020
IHG | October 12, 2020
‘Staycation’ was undoubtedly the travel buzzword of 2020. With travel restrictions limiting people jetting off to far-flung destinations for some of the summer months this year, Americans looked to explore what was on their very own doorstep more so than ever before. IHG Hotels & Resorts, which includes brands such as Holiday Inn, InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Staybridge Suites and Kimpton, reveals new data about the 2020 U.S. summer staycation and the impact on hotel bookings. Brian Hicks, SVP Commercial and Revenue Management, IHG Hotels & Resorts commented on the findings: “People are as eager as ever to travel, but th...
IHG® Hotels & Resorts Reveals New Data About the British Summer Staycation in 2020
IHG | October 9, 2020
Staycation’ was undoubtedly the travel buzzword of 2020. With travel restrictions limiting people jetting off to far-flung destinations this year, Brits looked to explore what was on their very own doorstep more so than ever before. IHG Hotels & Resorts, which has more than 360 hotels in the UK & Ireland with brands including Holiday Inn, voco Hotels, Crowne Plaza, InterContinental, Hotel Indigo, Staybridge Suites and Kimpton, reveals new data about how British travellers chose to spend the last few months. Karan Khanna, Managing Director UK & I, IHG Hotels & Resorts commented on the findings: “We’ve seen that peop...
Think Staycations and Cleanliness Theater for COVID Travel
Larry Mogelonsky | April 1, 2020
By Larry Mogelonsky, MBA, P. Eng. (www.hotelmogel.com) There are two terms to mull over for how the travel will change in the near future and both relate to the heightened sense of agoraphobia and fear of unhygienic spaces. And those hotels that are able to figure out these two terms apply in a post-COVID world will indeed see their occupancies return. First to understand is the fear instilled in people’s minds from all this panic that will linger for long after the all clear is given. Call it ‘post coronavirus stress disorder’ (PCSD). What this means is that your newly adopted hygiene standards put in place to address COVID-19 wi...
Commingle:Engage to Launch No-Cost Service to Help Hotels Book Local Drive Business
Lodging Interactive & commingle:engage | March 30, 2020
PARSIPPANY, NJ – March 30, 2020 – commingle:engage, by Lodging Interactive, the hospitality industry’s premier provider of full-service social media marketing and guest reputation management services today announced it is planning to launch a new service to help hotels book local business opportunities. StayPlayExplore.travel will offer locally curated content and hotel offers to target staycations and local social event opportunities. The service will be offered free of charge to hotels. “I believe the hospitality industry will recover in stages, with the first stage being leisure travelers who will be anxious to venture ou...
