TODAY: 2019 Hotel Trends, Gulf outbound tourism spending, Google travel makes inroads, facebook data breach and the benefits of hyper-personalization are well known.

2019 Top Hotel Trends
Monday, 12th November 2018

Has there ever been a more exciting time to work in the hospitality industry? The last few years have seen significant change, and it was definitely needed, but the future holds even more change for the industry.

Management at all levels are finally embracing modern technology and social media as well as further embracing local neighborhoods to make them more inclusive to the guest experience >>

Outbound tourism spending from the Gulf is six times the global average
12 Nov 2018 : A new report from the World Tourism Organization and the European Travel Commission shows that outbound tourism from the Gulf Cooperation Council – comprising six countries of the Arabian peninsula – has grown strongly in recent years, with international tourism expenditure surpassing USD 60 billion in 2017 >>

Rosewood Venice to open in 2020
12 Nov 2018 : Rosewood has been appointed by Italian real estate company Gruppo Barletta to manage Rosewood Venice, which is set to open in 2020 as the ultra-luxury brand’s second property in Italy and eighth in Europe >>

The benefits of hyper-personalization are well known
9 Nov 2018 : Making your customer feel loved, launching unbeatable granular marketing and ensuring relevancy will undoubtedly deliver huge gains for your organization (Live Webinar) >>

Shangri-La and Tencent partner to deliver greater convenience and personalised experience
11 Nov 2018 : The cooperation will be focused on developing and deploying Smart Hotel solutions to power the transformation of hotel operations and services for Shangri-La, and will expand to more future collaborations across various businesses within the Shangri-La Group worldwide >>

Hotel Investment Highlights Asia Pacific
10 Nov 2018 : Of the total transaction volume in Asia, approximately 70% originated from properties located in China, Japan and South Korea, and most were bought by domestic investors >>

HIGHLIGHT ARTICLE

6 Things You Might Not Know About Google Travel
Monday, 12th November 2018

Google is simply everywhere these days but Google’s been traveling down another path recently that’s pretty tough to ignore — especially if you happen to travel a lot yourself.

In recent years, Google has been looking at ways it can gain a foothold in the travel industry. And even more recently, the company has taken steps to make itself more friendly to those who travel, whether for leisure or for business >>

How the Facebook Data Breach Could Affect Online Fraud
Facebook recently announced that a previously unnoticed vulnerability in their site code has led to a hack of nearly 30 million accounts: Hackers were able to steal users’ access tokens, allowing them to stay logged onto the platform for months at a time >>

Why Boutique Gyms are Shaping Up as a City Center Staple
It’s no longer a case of spending a solitary 30 minutes on the treadmill. Today’s myriad of modern workouts, whether high-intensity bootcamps or core-strengthening ballet barre classes, are increasingly taking place within the boutique gyms springing up across Europe’s cities >>

What Does China’s Infrastructure Masterplan Mean for Asia?
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will do more than just build better trade links between China and Asia. It will also transform cities in China and those along the BRI routes – from China’s Chengdu and Xi’an to Colombo’s Financial City in Sri Lanka and further afield in Southeast Asia through improved infrastructure and foreign investment in new real estate projects >>

Asking 'What Makes You Stay?' How Stay Interviews Can Improve Employee Retention And Productivity
Hiring interviews and exit interviews are a very common, if not completely unavoidable, part of any employer’s business operations but what is less known and less talked about, however, are stay interviews—even though they could be the most important interviews your organization could ever have >>