The 2020 travel managers report, Taiwan implements an one week quarantine, why hotels get restaurants and bars insanely wrong and reshaping the guest experience.

The 2020 travel managers report
Tuesday, 23rd June 2020

As you look ahead to an unprecedented corporate travel sourcing season, it's never been more critical to understand travel managers’ priorities and challenges.

The 2020 Cvent Travel Managers Report – Asia edition draws on the responses of 250+ corporate travel managers to provide insight into how they approach the process of sourcing hotels for their corporate travel programs >>

Taiwan's one week quarantine, the new global normal?
23 Jun 2020 : The Central Epidemic Epidemic Command Center said that the domestic COVID-19 epidemic has slowed down and is under stable control, short-term business people who meet four basic conditions at the same time can apply for shortening the time of home quarantine >>

Emerging hotel brands
23 Jun 2020 : As COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), the hospitality industry began to experience sharp declines in lodging demand given the cancellation of events and the travel restrictions set by the government, which contributed to the drop in all performance metrics >>

'Strong and Rapid' governments’ responses to COVID-challenge as tourism restarts
23 Jun 2020 : As many destinations begin to ease restrictions on travel, the specialized United Nations agency has released its first Briefing Note on Tourism and COVID-19, illustrating efforts taken to safeguard jobs and lay the foundations for recovery >>

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Damn the Outlets. Why Hotels Get Restaurants and Bars Insanely Wrong
Tuesday, 23rd June 2020

From buffets, to welcome drinks, overly standardized offerings and no sense of space utilization, hotel restaurant and bar design remains a highly institutionalized vanilla-flavored train wreck.

You can already tell how the story is going to play out, when you premise that hotel operators lump what should be brand opportunities into a sorry, sad basket called outlets >>

Distancing and the Breakfast Buffet: Where to From Here?
When the majority of hotels re-open, the all-you-can-eat buffet won’t be part of the deal. Hoteliers will need to rethink almost every part of their business, focusing on all areas that are accessed by guests as well as considering the safety and protection of staff >>

Reshaping the Guest Experience for a Post-World
The hospitality industry has always had a unique concern with problem-solving, management teams continually look for ways to meet the needs of guests while anticipating what they'll want next from future visits >>

What Direction is the Conference Sector Headed
Covid-19 has had an undeniably catastrophic effect on the hospitality industry worldwide and the reverberations have spilled, inevitably, into the conference and meetings sector as hotels remain closed and social distancing regulations mean mass gatherings of business and industry peers are currently impossible >>

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