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COMO expands its private island portfolio
Monday, 10th January 2022

The multi-award-winning luxury lifestyle brand grows its exclusive private island collection — a portfolio which includes COMO Parrot Cay and COMO Maalifushi — with the addition of a more than 5 square mile island resort in the South Pacific >>

IHG seals four-hotel destination resorts portfolio deal
10 Jan 2022 : Vietnam’s first large-scale onsen destination resort at Quang Hanh’s Yoko Park – and three hotels in Ba Na Hills – will open in 2026, IHG announces a four-hotel, 2,709-room portfolio deal in Vietnam with long-standing partner Sun Hospitality Group >>

US hotel results for week ending 1 January
10 Jan 2022 : US hotel average daily rate (ADR) reached an all-time weekly high, according to STR‘s latest data through 1 January >>

LynKey announces Blockchain for travel and tourism
9 Jan 2022 : LynKey, a global platform that powers luxury resort and vacation property with Blockchain, AI, NFTs, and Metaverse tech, just launched a project aiming to tokenize and offer NFT, Metaverse solutions of over $8 billion dollars for travel and tourism >>

HIGHLIGHT ARTICLE

Welcome to a Year that Requires Grit, Strength and a Leap of Faith
Monday, 10th January 2022

CLOSING out the year, battered by news of yet another Greek tragedy unfolding in our world and the travel industry, I was determined to start 2022 on an optimistic note.

So I listened to an interview with Espen Fadnes, one of the world’s most famous base jumpers, who I think is the most optimistic human being on our planet >>

2022 Workforce-Workplace Forecast - Part 2
Every year usually beginning in December, I write the next year's workforce/workplace forecast, in part due to the global pandemic, many in the workforce have re-evaluated their previous values and attitudes >>

Eight Lessons from a Global Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact across the events industry, almost all live meetings and events were cancelled or postponed in 2020 and 2021 >>

In case you've missed it: Global eNewsletter of January 07, 2022
COVID hospitality bulletin Asia Pacific, Booking completes the acquisition of Getaroom and more>>