CONCIERGE DESK  Recent News   (Click headline to read article) Global factors are strong drivers of Asia hotels revenues Wednesday, 22nd May 2013 A study of global and local factors that drive changes in hotels' revenue per available room (RevPAR) in eight major Asian cities found that the revenues for the hotels in these cities are strongly subject to global forces... Survey finds marketers are operationally proficient but strategically stalled Wednesday, 22nd May 2013 The 2013 MPM Survey captured input from more than 400 respondents, enabling ITSMA, Forrester, and VEM to expose valuable insights on the performance measurement and management challenges marketers face... Japan: Hotel trading and investment market likely to exhibit further improvements Wednesday, 22nd May 2013 ​Jones Lang LaSalle releases Hotel Intelligence Japan 2013 research report... News from around the EMEA region, May 22 Wednesday, 22nd May 2013 Hotel, industry and travel news from around the EMEA region; this week: Hyatt Regency for Amsterdam, Dubai gets a Viceroy and more... Smartphone and tablets prompt mobile rethink Tuesday, 21st May 2013 The move away from desktops towards smartphones and tablets is changing how the travel industry uses technology to connect with today’s multi-device consumer, concluded board-level travel industry participants at the recent WTM Round Table into the Future of Mobile... Chinese Greenland and Melia open the first Greenland hotel in Europe Tuesday, 21st May 2013 The hotel has been adapted to the needs of demanding Chinese travellers and with the standards of a modern international hotel...  Recent Articles  (Click headline to read article) A Day in the Life of a Hotel Opening Imagine waking up feeling fresh after a great night’s sleep without the pressure of having to report for an early morning shift; imagine getting ready for work, without a blackberry in hand and putting on your comfortable pre-opening T-shirt... From Selling Rooms to Cooking Fun and it All Started with a Bike Ride Inspired by Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman’s “Long Way Round”, former Singapore hotelier Daniel Tan got on a motorcycle and did a three-month ride across Asia... Bridging Marketing and Finance Using Metrics Finance departments often criticize marketing’s inability to present a tangible ROI and use financial measures... Study Connects Work-Family Imbalance to Employee Turnover A new study published in the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly (CQ) demonstrates the connection between work-family imbalance and an employee's decision to leave a job... Good Ideas Are Not Enough 'It’s such a pity, he had the talent to play for Australia, but not the application'; how many times have you heard that expression about an individual who seemed to have a natural borne talent that was never fully applied? The raw talent... Project Management of Hotel Opening Processes in Greater China Exclusive Feature: The Chinese hotel industry has started the steepest new hotel development curve the world has ever experienced...  Top Feature Articles (Click title to read) Who Are Next Generation of Luxury Travelers? Wednesday, 22nd May 2013 Exclusive Feature: The luxury traveler seems to be getting younger and younger; at least, that's the latest hypothesis coming from Starwood's head office... Faced With Overload, a Need to Find Focus Wednesday, 22nd May 2013 What’s the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning, before you even brush your teeth? Is it checking the e-mail that’s flooded into your inbox overnight... When Strategic Focus Goes Wrong Wednesday, 22nd May 2013 Ask any teenager today who Eastman Kodak is and it is likely that they will not know and yet, little over ten years ago Eastman Kodak was riding high with over $10B in sales and with a famed research and development department that invented... Hidden Fees: Theft in Plain Sight? Tuesday, 21st May 2013 With the summer travel season a couple of weeks away the menace of hidden fees gets more attention in the press leading to the somewhat misleading notion that the add-ons are merely a summer practice... © Copyright 4Hoteliers 2001-2013 ~ unless stated otherwise, all rights reserved. You can read more about 4Hoteliers and our company here Use of this web site is subject to our terms & conditions of service and privacy policy