TODAY: Insights into The Future of Hotels, YOTEL moves into the extended stay segment and Picture the future, Embrace the past - Dubai Frame opens.

Insights into The Future of Hotels
Thursday, 18th January 2018

With the growing competition for staff and guests, hotels will only survive by adopting a guest-centric culture. Expect to see more hotels creating positive guest experiences; those not able to adapt, we anticipate seeing turned into assisted living facilities >>

YOTEL moves into the extended stay segment
17 Jan 2018 : Five new YOTELPAD deals mark YOTEL’s arrival in the extended stay segment reinforcing the brand’s ability to optimise space through clever design and smart technology >>

Consolidation of event programs leads to future success for travel managers, event planners
18 Jan 2018 : Travel, meeting and event program consolidation — when organizations connect internal structures that overlap in function, but have not historically communicated with each other — has grown 62 percent since 2015 >>

Hilton opens new work-from-home reservation sales
18 Jan 2018 : Hilton announced the hiring initiative for its remote career program with the creation of 650 new part-time work-from-home reservation sales positions, offering flexible work opportunities across the United States, Flexible jobs expand company's highly ranked remote career program >>

Picture the future, Embrace the past - Dubai Frame
18 Jan 2018 : Dubai Frame – an architectural wonder, bridging the past and the present, with spectacular views of Dubai’s most iconic landmarks has opened to the public >>

HIGHLIGHT ARTICLE

How Hotels Can Win in Asia Part 1: Successful Social Proof
Thursday, 18th January 2018

Social proof should be in every hotels’ marketing toolkit: the technique, which uses the thoughts and feelings of others to influence customers, feeds into our need to belong and our unshakable trust in 'people like me'. With massive adoption of social media and mobile and intra-regional travel the dominant force in Asia Pacific, hotels there have got to be using social proof and using it right. The latter is harder to do than it sounds, so here’s a few thoughts on how to maximise the value from social proof >>

The 25 Dollar Mistake
Looking over the final contract for our most recent meeting at the hotel, there were a few minor changes from the year prior. Most of those were due to slight increases in the room rate and food costs. I expected that this might happen, and so I was fine with those. However, there was one change in the agreement that was unacceptable. The first year, the hotel gave us free Internet service for our attendees. This year they wanted to charge us for it >>

The REAL Renovation Rescue
So what do all these renovation millions achieved? Fresh infrastructure, gleaming new guest rooms, opulent flourishes and high-tech amenities — all worthy of Instagram. If you have the cash to spend, there’s no limit to the ways in which you can reinvent. But what if you’re an independent boutique, or a small chain? Improvement is still necessary. Reinvention is still vital. The question is how to do it without spending a fortune >>