TODAY: 24 hours in Travel & Tourism, Check-In at the Bar: New Ideas for Hotel Front Desks and Unlocking Travel Through Food: How SORTED Went From How-To Cooking Videos to Destination Marketing.

24 hours in Travel & Tourism
Wednesday, 17th October 2018

A 24-hour a sector that contributes generates 313 million jobs and over 10.4% of the world’s GDP, have a look at the amount of industry transactions happening within 24-hour.

In terms of GDP growth, the Travel & Tourism industry has outpaced the global economy by 4.6% for the seventh successive year (and that’s during a decade with robust consumer spending worldwide)! >>

First look of the largest newly built hotel in the Benelux
17 Oct 2018 : Welcome to nhow Amsterdam RAI, a place where contemporary art, design, gastronomy and cultural expressions fit together perfectly >>

International tourism maintains strong momentum
17 Oct 2018 : According to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)’s latest barometer, international tourist arrivals grew 6% in the first six months of 2018 after a record year of growth in 2017 >>

IHG's third Australian voco™ signing to be part of '380 Melbourne' skyscraper
17 Oct 2018 : IHG has signed its third voco™ in Australia since the brand’s global launch in June, partnering with Brady Group to open voco Melbourne Central in July 2020 >>

HIGHLIGHT ARTICLE

Check-In at the Bar: New Ideas for Hotel Front Desks
Wednesday, 17th October 2018

It made perfect sense, your first stop when checking into a hotel was the front desk. You had to collect your key and room number, but, you also might have needed to provide a credit card for incidental charges like the mini bar.

Oh, and what’s the WiFi code? Technology has rendered the concept of the hotel front desk nonsensical >>

Shifting Away from the PMS as the Data Warehouse
Traditionally, the PMS has been considered the primary hub of hotel operations, but as data management becomes more complex, the limitations of the PMS, as this primary hub, are becoming increasingly apparent >>

Unlocking Travel Through Food: How SORTED Went From How-To Cooking Videos to Destination Marketing
With infinite content available, there is an onus on content creators to develop highly original content that avoids the clichés captured by your typical travel ad. On top of that, there is pressure to cultivate a defined and sometimes unique audience demographic, and then produce future content according to the tastes of this cohort >>

Hospitality & Technology – Innovation is Being Stifled By Lack Of Leadership
A conversation with Klaus Kohlmayr, chief evangelist at IDeaS Revenue Solutions, he confirmed that the sector is playing catch-up. We agreed, gutsy leadership is needed to bring the technology departments at hotel organizations worldwide into the 21st century.

More importantly, we agreed that the root of the problem lies in out-of-date software, systems and infrastructure >>