TODAY: HIS to open 10 more robot-staffed hotels in Japan, Muslim travel is important in the global travel industry and Regent launches first collaborative project in Boston.

Thursday, 19th October 2017
Japanese travel company H.I.S. said Monday it will open 10 more hotels staffed by robots in Tokyo, Fukuoka, Osaka and Kyoto by March 2019. "Henn-na Hotel," or "strange hotel," featuring dinosaur or female humanoid robot receptionists and cleaning robots, will be opened in downtown areas of the cities, targeting the booming foreign tourist market in Japan, the company said. Currently, H.I.S. operates three similar hotels near theme parks in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture >>

Muslim travel is important in the global travel industry
19 Oct 2017 : Halal travel is a market that offers huge prospects for the global tourism industry, Muslim majority tourism is one of the fastest growing areas of global tourism and excluding Hajj and Umrah, is set to surpass +$238 billion by 2019 >>

Regent launches first collaborative project in Boston
19 Oct 2017 : As part of EchelonSeaport in Boston, the 133 & 135 Seaport, a Regent Collection is the first collaborative development project between Regent Hotels Group and Cottonwood Management under a strategic partnership agreement signed in 2016. 133 & 135 Seaport represents Cottonwood’s first residential development in the North American market to introduce its Echelon Club lifestyle >>

Holiday Inn Goiânia opens in Brazil
19 Oct 2017 : This is IHG’s eighth Holiday Inn property in Brazil and the first IHG hotel in the Midwestern city of Goiânia, located about 130 miles from Brasilia, the nation’s capital >>

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TripAdvisor Teams Up with Snapchat for the Release of Context Cards
Thursday, 19th October 2017

Snapchat has grown a lot in its six-year history: From selfies and flower crown filters to spectacles and geolocations, the company reports 173 million active daily users that post three billion snaps per day. Now the app’s latest update, which was announced last week, includes hotel and restaurant reservations through a new feature called Context Cards >>

How Secure is Your Website?

When it comes to attracting direct bookings to your hotel, a secure website is an essential component to achieve higher conversion rates. Therefore having a ‘secure’ website is important for providing a safe browsing and shopping experience for your customers which in turn fosters trust between the hotelier and the customer, this blog post explains how >>