TODAY: Booking-dot-com unites Spring Air, Tencent permits travel, Rosewood to open in Myanmar's cultural capital in 2018 and Culture is Stronger Than Knowledge.

Booking.com unites Spring Air, Tencent permits travel
Thursday, 21st June 2018

Booking.com has initiated a strategic partnership with major Chinese low-cost carrier Spring Airlines. The two firms will integrate their platform resources to offer expanded travel experiences for China's outbound tourists and Tencent Holdings is working with the Chinese government to create an electronic pass system that allows Chinese citizens to link their ID card to their travel permits through a WeChat Mini Program >>

HVS Asia-Pacific hotel operator guide 2018 – Excerpt
21 Jun 2018 : The publication continues to serve owners as a reference for which operator has a strong presence in their home market and in potential future markets further ashore as well as key feeder markets across the region >>

Strong premium placed on luxury & upper-upscale assets
21 Jun 2018 : Hotel brokers provide their opinions on the current state of the hotel transaction environment across the US in the Spring 2018 Edition HVS Broker Survey report >>

Amazon announces Alexa for Hospitality
20 Jun 2018 : Hospitality providers can now easily deploy voice-first experiences with Alexa to help increase guest access to amenities and use provided tools to improve employee productivity. Guests can ask Alexa to order room service, request housekeeping or call the concierge for recommendations without ever picking up the phone >>

Rosewood to open in Myanmar's cultural capital in 2018
21 Jun 2018 : Rosewood Hotels & Resorts® has been appointed by Prime Residence to manage Rosewood Yangon, which will open in Winter 2018 as the brand’s first property in Myanmar and sixth in Asia >>

HIGHLIGHT ARTICLE

Culture is Stronger Than Knowledge
Thursday, 21st June 2018

Large corporations are well aware of it, hence the 'Irish promotions' they generously issue when they are looking to get rid of someone.

One of your General Managers has never worked in a large city, raised all four of his children in Podunk, and has a wife involved with the local Junior League. You happen to know he owns a home in a depressed market but the man is not your favorite, and obviously you cannot terminate him. So you reassign him to New York-a city that is far far away. My prediction is that he will not last or will his marriage >>

Leveraging your Restaurant Sales Mix?
Restaurant Sales Mix is the foundation on which restaurant revenues are generated and while profitability concepts between a hotel and a restaurant are broadly similar, they are not the same >>

GDPR – 5 Last Minute Things That You Need To Do
You probably know by now that the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new implementation, meant to reinforce the protection of customer data and online safety, as well as increasing the transparency of data exchange between customers and businesses >>