scUber, the world's first rideshare submarine, Dusit signs 7th in China, data quality vital to total revenue forecasting and climate change: The defining future issue for the wellness industry.

Queensland, Australia, in partnership with Uber, announces the launch of scUber
Friday, 24th May 2019

Queensland, Australia, in partnership with Uber, announces the launch of scUber, the world's first rideshare submarine experience, coming to the Great Barrier Reef .

Queensland and Uber partner to launch scUber which will showcase the world's largest living structure as a biodiverse playground, rich in marine life and offering remarkable underwater experiences >>

Dusit signs 7th in China, hot springs resort
24 May 2019 : Comprising 300 guest rooms and suites, the resort will be located amidst the natural splendour of Wugong Mountain, which is famous for its rolling forested peaks, vast beautiful meadows, natural hot springs, and ancient altars >>

Rotana named ‘Best Hotel Brand in the Middle East’ 2019
24 May 2019 : Setting a new benchmark in the hospitality market, Rotana has won the ‘Best Hotel Brand in the Middle East’ award for the third consecutive year, and the ‘Best Business Hotel in Jordan’ award for Amman Rotana at the prestigious Business Traveller Middle East Awards 2019 >>

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Data Quality Vital To Total Revenue Forecasting
Friday, 24th May 2019

Total Revenue Forecasting (TRF) enables hotels to get a better picture of both rooms revenue and ancillary revenue in order to plan more strategically.

This may be in terms of resourcing. For example, anticipating demand before it arrives can enable you to spend marketing money more accurately. It can show where demand is weak, not only in rooms but also in other revenue-generating areas of your hotel.

Any hotels with ancillary revenue streams can be doing TRF, whether that is a manual or automated process. There are many areas of ancillary revenue hotels can focus on >>

Climate Change: The Defining Future Issue for the Wellness Industry
Incremental, barely discernible (currently) change will contribute to opening social and political space that will eventually lead to large-scale change. If it doesn’t want to be taken by surprise and suffer from the backlash, the wellness industry must lead the way now >>

Leadership and Employee Engagement from an HR Perspective
One of my main roles in the last decade was to drive Employee Engagement at hotels in the market that I supported and one annual activity was to conduct 'opinion surveys' and examine the results in a YOY review to compare individual departments to their hotels’ average scores >>

Interview Prep: Questions You WILL be Asked during a Screening Interview
While you may have lost hope and had given up on hearing back, you finally got that call; After days or even weeks of searching for a job, the recruiter called you back about the offer.

Perhaps this is your first time on a job hunt in a long time, or this is the first time you’ve worked with a hotel recruiter. First of all, you shouldn’t be nervous—the recruiter is contacting you as part of a screening, and they only want to learn some basic background information on you >>