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Hilton Expands Global Luxury Portfolio With Nearly 400 Extraordinary Boutique Hotels Through Its Exclusive Partnership With Small Luxury Hotels of the
Hilton | July 9, 2024
Guests can enjoy new ways to stay in a collection of unique, independently minded city, beach and resort hotels in sought‑after destinations around the world MCLEAN, Va., and LONDON - Hilton is dramatically expanding its portfolio of luxury hotel experiences with the addition of nearly 400 boutique properties from the exquisite Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH) collection. Starting today, hundreds of these properties will be available on all Hilton direct booking channels, including Hilton.com and the Hilton Honors app. Joining Hilton’s prestigious luxury brand portfolio - Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts, Conrad Ho...
Hotels Across Germany Are Filling Up for UEFA Euro 2024...
CoStar Group | May 31, 2024
Analysis by William Anns With the summer months fast approaching, sports fans are looking at the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship, which kicks off on Friday, 14 June. Set to take place across multiple locations in Germany, the annual football tournament is expected to affect hotel performance just as much as football fans across the continent. Utilizing Forward STAR data, the markets are already showing spikes in hotel bookings on and around the match dates. Cologne leads the way Looking at the first two weeks of the championship, Cologne is showing the most significant hotel bookings thus far. As of 13 May, the highest o...
Cendyn Named #1 CRS Provider in the 2024 HotelTechAwards for 7th Consecutive Year...
CENDYN | January 9, 2024
Cendyn’s CRS once again ranks #1 in the Central Reservations Systems category on Hotel Tech Report and won the title 'Best Hotel Reservations Systems of 2024’ Tuesday, January 9th, 2024: Cendyn, a catalyst for digital transformation in the hospitality industry, has secured the top award for “Best Hotel Reservations System” (CRS) at the 2024 Hotel Tech Awards. The win marks Cendyn’s seventh consecutive victory in this important category where the honor has been awarded every year since 2018. Each year 2.5 million hotel industry professionals use HotelTechReport.com to make informed technology purchasing decisions. The HotelTec...
POLL: Union’s Proposed Homeless Policy Will Deter 72% of Americans From Booking LA Hotel Rooms...
AHLA | October 3, 2023
More than 70% concerned about safety of hotel employees and guests WASHINGTON (Oct. 3, 2023) – More than seven in ten Americans would be deterred from booking a hotel room in Los Angeles if hotels there are forced to house homeless people next to paying guests. That’s according to a new national poll commissioned by the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) and conducted by Morning Consult. Los Angeles residents are set to vote in March 2024 on whether to require all local hotels to house homeless people next to paying guests as part of a ballot initiative proposed by Unite Here, a labor union that represents LA-area hotel wo...
What Hotels Should Know About Apple Business Connect...
Cendyn | March 2, 2023
Picture this, you’re looking for a restaurant close to where you are. You pull out your iPhone and start looking at Apple Maps to find a spot that has what you’re looking for. You see a restaurant that has a great description, pictures of mouth-watering food, and it’s only a few blocks away. You click on a tile to call the restaurant to make sure there’s availability, you book a table, and head on over. Now, imagine potential guests having this same capability for your hotel. Apple recently launched Apple Business Connect which gives businesses, and in this case hotels, the opportunity to make both their hotel and hotel ame...
Hotels.com Reports Rise in New Trip Type: “Thirst Trips”...
Hotels.com | February 21, 2023
DALLAS, Feb. 21, 2023 With nearly 100 days between President's Day and Memorial Day weekend, Americans are entering the longest stretch of the U.S. calendar without a federally sanctioned day off. This 3-day weekend drought leaves people parched for a getaway. New search data from Hotels.com shows a new trip type is quenching our thirst this spring: Thirst Trips, or short weekend stays that satisfy our desire for a day off by the pool. "We've hit a point in the year when there's no 3-day weekend on the office calendar, so many Americans have sort of conditioned themselves to hold out on making travel plans until Memorial Day weekend," sa...
ChatGPT: How Conversational Bots Will Be the New OTAs...
Sérgio Serra | February 16, 2023
By Sérgio Serra In late November 2022, OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT to the world, calling it a trained model that interacts in a conversational way. I’m sorry if the title of this article misleads you, but heads up, this is not an article about ChatGPT. It’s an article about how conversational bots based on Large Language Models (LLMs) can shape the future of the hospitality industry. Unlike many other technologies, this is a breakthrough that virtually everybody can understand and see many uses, a key one being online search. It’s simpler to pose a question and get a straight answer, rather than browse through different websites look...
STR: Adelaide Hotel Bookings Jump for Sport-Heavy April...
STR | December 15, 2022
ADELAIDE – The recent announcement that Adelaide will host the Australian Football League’s (AFL) Gather Round and LIV Golf in April 2023 has resulted in a boost in the market’s hotel occupancy on the books, according to STR’s Forward STAR data. The AFL Gather Round will take place Thursday, 13 April through Sunday, 16 April; while LIV Golf will take place Friday, 21 April through Sunday, 23 April. “We have seen a noticeable spike in Adelaide’s hotel occupancy on the books since the confirmation that the market would host these two major sporting events,” said Matthew Burke, STR’s regional director for Paci...