Valor Hospitality Partners Continues Middle East Expansion With Acquisition of Second Oman Property
Valor Hospitality Partners | September 20, 2023
Atlanta, Sept. 20, 2023 –Valor Hospitality Partners, a leading global hotel management company, has announced the acquisition of its second property in Duqm, Oman—marking seven total properties in the Middle East and expanding Valor Hospitality’s Middle East portfolio to 1200+ keys and brings the Oman portfolio to 300+ keys. In partnership with Marriott International, the boutique property will be branded Four Points by Sheraton and owned by Ezz Assas International and will open in 2024. The Four Points by Sheraton Duqm will have 85 rooms and is anticipated to reflect Valor Hospitality’s dedication to ‘travel reinvented,’ providi...
HFTP Announces February Dates for Inaugural Digital Horizons 360 Symposium, an Exclusive European Event Exploring Emerging Hospitality Technologies
HFTP | September 20, 2023
AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA (September 20, 2023) — Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®) is pleased to announce its new European event: Digital Horizons 360 Symposium (DH360). This invitation-only symposium will span over two-days, February 20-21, at the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. DH360 is a non-sales event for hospitality leaders to participate in roundtable discussions on the technologies set to have the biggest industry impact in Europe. Co-located with DH360 will be HFTP’s Entrepreneur 20X start-up hospitality technology pitch competition, the first of three in 2024. Created in respon...
HSMAI 2023 Sales Leader Forum Set for November 8, 2023 in Long Beach, California
HSMAI | September 20, 2023
McLean, VA (Sept. 20, 2023) – The Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) Sales Leader Forum will take place in Long Beach, CA on Nov. 8, 2023. This year’s event, organized by HSMAI’s Sales Advisory Board, will focus on “Leading the Way,” when it comes to important trends, critical insights, and evolving customers and what they mean for leading hotel sales teams today and in the future. Held annually, the HSMAI Sales Leader Forum completes the series of HSMAI Commercial Strategy events for 2023, following ROC Americas and the Marketing Strategy Conference. The event aims to advance the hotel sales ...
How P2P Software Will Help Hoteliers Master Their 2024 Budget
Johannes Vocke | September 20, 2023
By Johannes Vocke Budgeting effectively is a challenge at the best of times, but hoteliers looking to set their 2024 budgets have to do so amid lingering uncertainty across the travel industry. While travelers may be more excited than ever to set out on their next adventure, economic factors are changing the way people travel and how much it costs to provide exceptional guest experiences. Accenture reports that 71 percent of consumers plan to sustain or increase their spending on leisure travel next year. This trend gives hoteliers ample opportunity to recover revenue lost during the pandemic and achieve new top-line growth. CWT proje...
Innovative Wellness Solutions to Drive Future Hotel Growth
Adam and Larry Mogelonsky | September 20, 2023
By Adam and Larry Mogelonsky Wellness at hotels is perhaps the biggest win-win for our businesses besides sustainability investments which help the environment. For you, wellness means more revenue per guest either in add-on experiences or the ability to grow nightly rate, while the guest it leads to improved wellbeing. This is the big, big, big picture, and focusing on the micro of figuring out your brand’s unique approach within the quite ambiguous term that is ‘wellness’ is the 99% perspiration. Alas, if there’s one guiding light, it is technology. Welltech and spatech are becoming increasingly democratized due to the princip...
APS Celebrates 100th Interface Milestone
APS® (Above Property® Services) | September 20, 2023
Above Property Services (APS®) partners with best-in-class hotel technology brands to provide our hotels with powerful tools to seamlessly manage their hotel operations from a single platform NAPLES, FL– (September 20, 2023) – Above Property® Services (APS®), Services, a leading provider of hotel and travel technology solutions provider, has announced that it has reached a significant milestone with the launch of its 100th interface. The company's robust suite of property management system (PMS) integrations now includes connections to most major hotel technology suppliers, making it one of the most comprehensive offerings in the in...
CKI Solutions Transitions to Compostable Packaging
CKI Solutions | September 20, 2023
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.—September 20, 2023—Cadence Keen Innovations (d/b/a CKI Solutions), serving the hospitality industry, including cruise, for more than 20 years, is putting plastic packaging in the past and transitioning to compostable packaging for all its mattress and pillow encasements, bed doublers, as well as all other products using plastic or poly bags, including its Bed MadeEZ® Bed Maker. “The transition has already begun and will be included in all new products as they come in from the factories,” says Rachel Montross, Senior Marketing Manager for CKI Solutions. “We are moving away from zippered plastic packaging to ...
Travel Recovery Continues As Hoteliers Embrace Upselling With 70% Increase in Summer 2023, According to Mews Data Snap
MEWS | September 20, 2023
Revenue from parking lots, meeting rooms, and other spaces increased 22% YOY, while upselling increased 31% [New York, NY – Sept. 20, 2023] – Mews, the industry-leading hospitality cloud, today released the Mews Data Snap, a real-time measure of hospitality’s performance during the summer of 2023 (June, July, and August). The report also compares this year’s data to summer 2022 to pinpoint how the hospitality sector is changing. Based on data from Mews partners worldwide, the Mews Data Snap unpacks hospitality’s performance across five key areas: occupancy, ADR and RevPar, online check-ins and upsells, and additional bookable ...
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