Air France-KLM and Accor enter enhanced loyalty program partnership, Six Senses to open in Central America, TripAdvisor 's new core experience chief at wants to bring empathy and human-centredness and scoring big with room type rules.

Air France-KLM and Accor enter enhanced loyalty program partnership
Monday, 8th July 2019

Accor Group and the Air France-KLM Group are strengthening their existing partnership by offering, for the first time in the European travel industry a dual reward scheme to their entire global loyalty customer base.

Every time our customers travel on a flight marketed and operated by Air France and/or KLM, or stay a night at an Accor hotel, they will now simultaneously earn both Flying Blue Miles and Le Club AccorHotels Reward points >>

Hyatt marks the first Hyatt Place to open in Japan
8 Jul 2019 : Hyatt Place Tokyo Bay features the Hyatt Place brand’s intuitive design, cozy atmosphere and practical amenities. World-renowned Japanese fashion designer, Junko Koshino, designed the colleague uniforms and produced key art for the interior of the hotel >>

Six Senses to open first resort in Central America
7 Jul 2019 : Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas brings its sustainable and ultra-luxury footprint to Central America as it teams up with The Canyon Group to announce the development of Six Senses Papagayo, it offers a new adventure for those seeking love of life and health in a private, eco-conscious and away-from-it-all destination >>

Report: Airbnb, Amazon & Uber Dominate Dynamic Pricing
3 Jul 2019 : Consider for one second that Airbnb already uses over 70 criteria to design its pricing strategy and that's what you need to shoot for to engineer a pricing game that brings in major revenues >>

Swiss-Belhotel expands in Indonesia
6 Jul 2019 : Swiss-Belhotel International has continued the rapid expansion of its Indonesian portfolio with the launch of a newly-rebranded hotel in Bogor, West Java, Swiss-Belhotel Bogor opened on July 3rd, 2019 with a tumpeng cutting and celebration >>

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TripAdvisor 's New Core Experience Chief Wants to Bring Empathy and Human-Centredness
Monday, 8th July 2019

Coming from a non-travel background, Lindsay Nelson is keen to bring in fresh thinking and ideas to her role as president, Core Experience, TripAdvisor, a responsibility she describes as 'bringing consumer empathy to TripAdvisor'.

'We are a content company, an information platform. It is easy to get confused about what is your consumer value proposition and business model – there is sometimes a tension between the two' >>

Scoring Big with Room Type Rules
How does a 35-room, boutique hotel offering a room-only service make its annual budget by October? For Heywood House the answer lay in looking beyond the hotel at a potential regular revenue source that had an audience of up to 54,000 on alternating Saturdays >>

Crafting a Digital Strategy for 'Not-A-Go-To-Brand' in China
Air France KLM is open to embracing various touchpoints in China, including the ones owned by 3rd party channels/ platforms, it is fascinating to follow the journey of an agile organization. More so in case of an airline as running the same tends to be riddled with deep-rooted challenges >>

Wellness Evidence Study: Ultra-Processed Foods Are the Weight Gain Villain – Not Sugar, Fat, Carbs
An important new study from the National Institutes of Health is the first randomized trial to show that ultra-processed foods actually drive people to overeat and gain weight compared to whole/less processed foods >>

Global Newsletter: July 05, 2019
China Market Report Spring 2019, green hotel with solar panels? keep these things in mind!, Why Japanese innovation is surging ahead of the 2020 Olympics and dynamic pricing >>