Fiona Gillen, VP Marketing at The Hotels Network, explains how the extraordinary growth of Netflix offers invaluable clues for hoteliers looking to improve the performance of their websites.
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Expert’s Voice: Optimise your hotel website’s key pages to boost engagement and direct bookings
Technical hospitality writer Juliana Hahn offers a range of practical tips showing how hotels can improve the quality of the copy on their websites – and why it matters.
CityHub secures backing to accelerate international rollout
Hotel/hostel hybrid CityHub has agreed on a deal with NIBC and ABN AMRO to help grow the innovative brand’s portfolio of sites.
Expert’s Voice: Hotels must embrace new technology
Jordan Hollander, CEO at Hotel Tech Report, explains why hotels should adopt new technology to help them re-emerge stronger after Covid19.
Hotels need their own robust web booking channels to counter OTAs: Fredrik Jonsson
The rise of online travel agents (OTAs) is hurting profitability, which can be countered by hotels using the right technology, says Fredrik Jonsson, Founder and Managing Partner of Mereha.
Is Technology Key to New Hotel Event-Space Designs?
As hotels continue working to capture the elusive business segment of hospitality, modern and lavish event spaces are a great perk to an absolute necessity.
Hotel Operators Predict That Guests Will Expect Increasingly Sophisticated Technology
A new study has found that hotel operators are expecting that guests in the coming years will expect increasingly complex technology from the industry
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Expert’s Voice: Netflix – what can hoteliers possibly learn from the megabrand’s success?
Fiona Gillen, VP Marketing at The Hotels Network, explains how the extraordinary growth of Netflix offers invaluable clues for hoteliers looking to improve the performance of their websites.
Expert’s Voice: Optimise your hotel website’s key pages to boost engagement and direct bookings
Technical hospitality writer Juliana Hahn offers a range of practical tips showing how hotels can improve the quality of the copy on their websites – and why it matters.
CityHub secures backing to accelerate international rollout
Hotel/hostel hybrid CityHub has agreed on a deal with NIBC and ABN AMRO to help grow the innovative brand’s portfolio of sites.
Expert’s Voice: Hotels must embrace new technology
Jordan Hollander, CEO at Hotel Tech Report, explains why hotels should adopt new technology to help them re-emerge stronger after Covid19.
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Would you take a selfie with this hotel robot? (Lest you hurt its feelings!) [Video]
Say hello to 25hours Hotel The Circle’s latest trainee in Cologne: Robi the bilingual, thoughtful, super likeable robot
Your top 10 digital marketing New Year´s resolutions for 2019
A great time for hoteliers to reflect on last year’s strategies and analyze results in order to create a blueprint for a successful new year
How technology is shrinking hotel room sizes
Waste not, want not: how one Kiwi hotel is turning its food waste to water
The Cordis, Auckland embracing a systemcapable of turning discarded food waste into water.
Revving into town: get ready for self-driving hotel rooms
More details about its Autonomous Travel Suite designed by Aprilli Design Studio.
Facing the future: facial recognition the future of hotel check-ins
Singapore’s Swissotel The Stamford introduces automatic check-in counters with industry-first biometric facial recognition
Tech that, cupid!: How hotels are hoping to play matchmakers
Hotel properties and dating apps team up to link up fellow guests
Alibaba to Launch Tech-Forward Hotel in China
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba seems to be making a move into hotels with a tech-savvy property in Hangzhou.
Could hotel workers be replaced by Amazon Alexa?
As some hotels start to embrace the technology, their staff members worry that it could mean their days are numbered
“Play Hotel Music” A.I. Powered Music Streaming Service Tailored For Hotels
The A.I. provides powerful curated playlists for all spaces and styles which are continuously updated depending on the time, season, and weather.
Hotel guests enjoy robot staffers, early indications show
Experts begin to study customer satisfaction as it relates to the new robot employees that many hotels are beginning to feature and roll out
Hotels need to embrace innovation as online travel agencies look elsewhere for growth
Online travel agents are active in their search for new revenue streams amid changing consumer trends, slowing levels of growth and the effect of the recent Package Travel Directive in the EU
MGM Resorts announces new plans to go green
The company’s new environmental measures are just another step in the Las Vegas hospitality industry moving to embrace solar power
Melia Hotels to tackle over-tourism with focus on quality
Melia Hotels COO spoke at the Skift Forum Europe about technology, gaining the customer’s loyalty and overtourism in certain key destinations.
Three ways technology is improving hotel security
There has been an increase in the number of assaults in hotels, as well as incidences of cybercrime. The hospitality industry has been making strides in this area.
Welcome to the future: InterContinental Hotels & Resorts launched AI Rooms in China
InterContinental Hotels Group is one of the world’s leading hotel companies, and now it is leading the way into the future of how technology will be used in guest rooms.
New AI-Powered Ad helps consumers personalize their vacation planning
The hospitality company Best Western Hotels & Resorts teamed up with IBM Watson Advertising to introduce the new technology for hotels and hotel operators
The impact of Amazon and Google on the hotel industry
The future of hotels will likely having smart devices located in every room
How Viceroy Hotels is using smartwatches to improve its hospitality
Outfitting staff members with smartwatches is part of a larger strategy to improve overall customer service provided to guests
Scandic changes executive committee to bolster digitization and other expertise at top
Changes to Scandic’s Executive Committee speak to an acute desire for the company to focus on digitalization, branding and marketing, via the creation of new positions