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Hyatt Signs With Feuring Hotel Lissabon for First Andaz Hotel in Lisbon
Andaz | October 19, 2020
CHICAGO (October 19, 2020) – Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) announced today that a Hyatt affiliate has entered into a management agreement with Feuring Hotel Lissabon GmbH & Co. KG for the first Andaz hotel in Lisbon. Expected to open in 2024, Andaz Lisbon will offer guests an exciting new luxury lifestyle hotel in the Portuguese capital – named one of the world’s best destinations in 2019 – and it will represent a key milestone in Hyatt’s continued brand growth in Southern Europe. Andaz Lisbon is set to become the second Hyatt-branded hotel in Lisbon following the planned opening of Hyatt Regency Lisbon in 2022. Located ...
Raines Hospitality Selected to Manage The Foundry Hotel in Asheville, North Carolina
Raines | September 23, 2020
Raines, a premier hospitality management, development, and operating group based in South Carolina, is proud to announce the addition of The Foundry Hotel to its management portfolio. Asheville’s historic former steel foundry underwent extensive updates and renovations to open in 2018 as The Foundry Hotel, a Curio Collection by Hilton property. The 87-room boutique hotel offers an authentically Asheville experience complemented by Benne on Eagle, the award-winning Appalachian-inspired restaurant led by local chef and culinary pioneer John Fleer. “Asheville has become a leading destination in the Southeast and is consistently recog...
Lodging Interactive Launches Micro-Wedding Lead Generation Service With Guaranteed Leads
Lodging Interactive and Commingle:Engage | September 22, 2020
PARSIPPANY, NJ – September 22, 2020 - Lodging Interactive, a full-service digital marketing, social media engagement, and reputation management agency exclusively serving the hospitality industry, today announced the roll out of its micro-wedding lead generation service for hotels. The service has been developed to target the fast-growing small wedding market which can provide immediate revenue for properties during the global pandemic crisis. “Micro-weddings are typically less than 20 guests and have a shorter and much more simplistic timeline. Most have a quick ceremony and a casual and relaxed reception,” said DJ Vallauri, Lodging...
What Does a Restaurant Manager Do?
EHL | August 31, 2020
One job, many hats Restaurant Managers ensure restaurants run smoothly and efficiently. They seek to provide customers with pleasant dining experiences that live up to brand standards. Their efforts, which include effectively managing employees, are ultimately geared towards safeguarding the profitability of the restaurant. In effect, an RM embodies general management, administration, customer services, human resources, supply chain & procurement, health and safety, compliance, accounting & marketing – all rolled into one. This is particularly true for those working in smaller establishments, who are in frequent contact with bot...
McKibbon Hospitality Appoints Matthew Ram as Vice President of Acquisitions
McKibbon Hospitality | August 31, 2020
TAMPA, FL (August 31, 2020) – McKibbon Hospitality, an award-winning leader in hotel management, is pleased to announce the appointment of Matthew Ram as its Vice President of Acquisitions. Bringing more than 10 years of financial analysis expertise to McKibbon, Ram will be responsible for leading the charge as the family-owned and operated company moves into the acquisition space, managing deal sourcing, underwriting and investment analysis, acquisitions, dispositions, asset management, transaction support, and investor relations. Prior to joining McKibbon, Ram most recently served as Investment Manager for the Tampa-based commerci...
Davidson Hotels & Resorts Selected to Operate Margaritaville Orlando Resort
Davidson Hotels & Resorts | May 1, 2020
Resort marks third Margaritaville property in current management portfolio ATLANTA (May 1, 2020) – Davidson Hotels & Resorts, one of the nation’s leading full-service hospitality management companies, has been tapped by Encore Capital Management to assume management of Margaritaville Resort Orlando. A destination in and of itself, the 186-room casual-luxe resort features four on-site distinctive dining and lounge experiences; lagoon-style pools; signature St. Somewhere Spa; teen and kids’ clubs; Sunset Walk Entertainment District; Island H2O Live! Water Park, and more than 40,000 sq. ft of flexible meeting and event space. “...
People Management During COVID-19
Global Asset Solutions | April 28, 2020
By Alex Sogno An industry of people taking care of people; Ladies and Gentlemen Serving Ladies and Gentlemen; People, Product and Profit. Whichever way you phrase it, people are at the core of hospitality. As a service-focused industry, our product is inseparable from the person delivering it. Therefore, a hotel’s success depends on how motivated, happy and engaged their employees are as this directly affects its product. So how does a people-focused industry take care of their people during COVID-19? 1. Communication is Key (even when it’s virtual) We’ve all heard it a million times, especially now when we cannot be face-to-face: ...
There’s Magic in Managing the Details
Shep Hyken | April 23, 2020
By Shep Hyken “Detail is no detail.” I’m not sure where I heard this first. I even did a Google search and couldn’t find it. Maybe I made it up. If I did, this is what I meant by it: details are important. They must be purposeful. Some of the “little things” that seemingly don’t matter can actually be very important. An example of this comes right out of my recently released book, the updated and revised version of The Cult of the Customer. On page 163, I wrote, “Our perceptions of the organizations with which we choose to work are inevitably shaped by a sequence of seemingly little experiences that can go either...
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