Fundamentally it has been a completely different year from any other - many referring to a "new normal" - bringing a plethora of contrasts to the industry when comparing hospitality to pre-COVID-times. This urges the need to review what trends have come and go, and put any concerns into perspective. Of course, COVID-19 has scrambled things up causing ripples in the hospitality...
A recent study conducted by Expedia Group claimed travelers are 57 percent more likely to book a hotel via an OTA than before the pandemic, as a result of emerging traveler booking motivations such as: To get the best nightly rate (69 percent) To get the best room (40 percent) To compare properties in one location (35 percent) Other motivations include earning...
With the latest forecast by the U.S. Travel Association by Tourism Economics predicting $505 billion in losses globally through the end of 2020, UVD Robots announced its autonomous disinfecting robot is being increasingly deployed within hotels, railways, and airports across the globe. UVD Robots’ mobile, fully autonomous robot integrates UVC light and a large number of disinfection-specialized apps to disinfect against viruses and bacteria...
SAN FRANCISCO—The latest edition of Duetto’s Pulse Report, which tracks key hotel business metrics from August 24-September 6, shows significant increases in performance for the hotel markets of North America, boosted by the Labor Day holiday weekend. This is the first true boost to hotel performance since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold and is a breath of fresh air for...
REPORT FROM THE U.S.—As the hotel industry looks to recover from the pandemic, the technology hoteliers use and how they use it could help them along the way. During the “Technology & what it means for hotels” session of the CHRIS+HOLA Connect online conference, hotel and travel tech experts spoke about the evolving tech needs of guests and what the...
Although the coronavirus pandemic brought the tourism industry to a grinding halt, certain areas of the hotel development sector have continued to progress despite the disruption brought on by the virus. As we continue to navigate these uncharted waters, we’re forecasting that the development landscape will shift in ways to further accommodate what the “post-pandemic” traveler is looking for. Below...
For the week ending 5 September, U.S. hotel performance metrics continued to improve, buoyed most recently by the Labor Day holiday, Jan Freitag, SVP of lodging insights at STR, said in a video overviewing weekly U.S. hotel performance. (STR is the parent company of Hotel News Now.) STR published preliminary August data this week, which indicated a clear sign of...
Technology companies are innovating to help hoteliers navigate through COVID-19. These are some of the recent enhancements to technology offerings. ProfitSword Launches Hospitality Recovery Dashboard ProfitSword has unveiled its designing of an advanced hospitality market performance dashboard that can aggregate real-time metrics from businesses across the industry to present a comprehensive analysis of how recovery efforts are progressing and what...
NEEDHAM, Mass. - Tripadvisor, the world's largest travel platform, today released findings from its Seasonal Travel Index for Fall, providing travelers with insight into where Americans are traveling this autumn as tourism markets continue their path to recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent Tripadvisor site data shows that globally, domestic travel for the fall season (September 1 - November 30, 2020) continues...
The middle of summer brought better hotel performance data than STR has recorded since the COVID-19 pandemic started in the U.S. (STR is the parent company of Hotel News Now.) Gross operating profit margin was positive for the first time since March, and more U.S. hotel markets are now realizing positive gross operating profit per available room (GOPPAR). Full-service hotels finally able...
November 6, 2020
The Latest Developments and Trends in Hospitality for 2020 & 2021Fundamentally it has been a completely different yea...
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How to keep your direct guests and steer the traveler booking motivations away from the OTAs?A recent
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