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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...
Before COVID-19 hit, the lodging industry was beginning to recognize the power of technology in creating a smart, contactless experience for guests. Tech adoption has grown steadily but it has been hard to standardize hotel processes globally. For example, no single technology has emerged as the golden ticket to unlocking the check-in experience. To say that this is a difficult...
The Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy, or C-PACE, program is a unique public-private financing program designed to help commercial, industrial, nonprofit, multifamily and agricultural property owners, and real estate developers, fund large-scale energy-efficiency and renewable energy projects. How Does C-PACE Work? A property owner borrows money from a private lender to pay for a large-scale energy-efficiency project and makes the...
