50+ is the new 30 in Chinese outbound tourism, coworking hotels: A productive combination?, global trends creating turmoil for luxury brands and plastic loyalty.

50+ is the new 30 in Chinese outbound tourism
Wednesday, 20th February 2019

Move over, young travellers!

Alipay published a few days ago insights from the Chinese New Year travel period this year and not surprisingly they found that the amounts of outbound travellers spending from third-and-fourth-tier cities grew faster than that by those from the top-tier cities, showing that they are catching up on the trend of using mobile payment outside of China >>

MO's newest resort makes its Middle Eastern debut
20 Feb 2019 : Mandarin Oriental is delighted to introduce the Group’s legendary hospitality to the Middle East with the opening of Mandarin Oriental Jumeira, Dubai >>

Larger, more digital and sustainable - ITB Berlin 2019
20 Feb 2019 : During the show trade visitors and the public can find out about the many products and services of this southeast Asian country in Hall 26. Now occupying an enlarged stand covering 100 square metres, co-exhibitor numbers have more than doubled compared with last year >>

News from around the APAC region
20 Feb 2019 : Hotel industry and travel news from around the Asia Pacific region: China’s domestic tourism revenue increased 7% during Spring Festival holiday vs LY, Oyo hotels to expand in Southeast Asia and more >>

HIGHLIGHT ARTICLE

Coworking Hotels: A Productive Combination?
Wednesday, 20th February 2019

As millennial tastes have risen to prominence in the hospitality world, scores of hotels have made overtures to new ways of working.

Stagnant lobby areas have been reinvented as vibrant laptop-friendly areas, crypt-like business centres have been eliminated in favour of open multi-functional spaces and even the workstation concepts in guestrooms have been stripped down and reimagined >>

Global Trends Creating Turmoil for Luxury Brands
If you want to know what’s ahead for the luxury market, look no further than Paris, France. In 2017 real-estate research firm Savills named Paris the capital of luxury retail after it experienced the most luxury retail store openings in the world, but look at Paris today: it is a battleground with yellow-vested protestors in the streets >>

Plastic Loyalty – Investigating Loyalty Card Programs
Few studies of hotel loyalty programs, particularly field studies, examine basic questions such as the need for loyalty programs or their effects on hotel choice >>

Core Values are Decision Filters
Core values are what an organization believes and stands for. These are the principles and beliefs that guide an organization – and the employees of that organization. Many organizations’ core values include words like honesty and integrity >>

Build Your Hotel's Ideal Guest Journey and Learn How to Make it a Reality
Technology has changed guest expectations, making it more difficult than ever for hotels to understand how to best cater to their guests >>