Hyatt cooperates in China’s first Hello Kitty hotel, Saudi Arabia’s NEOM launching first hotel and more...

Hyatt cooperates in China’s first Hello Kitty hotel
Tuesday, 18th January 2022

Keyestone Group and Hyatt Hotels announced plans for China’s first Hello Kitty Hotel in Sanya, Hainan.

The hotel will be developed by the Keyestone Group and added to the JdV by Hyatt brand. It is expected to open by 2025 as part of the Sanya Hello Kitty Resort – the first Hello Kitty theme park in Hainan Province >>

COVID-19 crisis shifts the focus of IT spend to automation, sustainability, and digital health
18 Jan 2022 : While IT budgets have stayed largely flat in 2021, airport and airline CIOs are betting on technology to support their recovery from COVID-19, with a significant increase in spending on digitalization and sustainability as key priorities by 2024 >>

Saudi Arabia’s NEOM launching first hotel by end of 2022
18 Jan 2022 : Saudi Arabia’s city of the future NEOM has revealed plans to open the first hotel by the end of 2022, with up to 15 hotels opening between 2023 and 2025 >>

Kimpton brings its playful design to Thailand’s Koh Samui
18 Jan 2022 : Embracing island living, Kimpton Kitalay Samui opens as the brand’s first resort in South East Asia >>

HIGHLIGHT ARTICLE

What a Journey Ahead – Buzzwords for 2022
Tuesday, 18th January 2022

New Normal, Metaverse, 'I minted my own NFT', Connectivity – what’s yours? WELL, 2021 has been quite the journey and it looks like we could be in for another journey in 2022, the way the year is starting out. And there, I’ve done it – committed the crime of the journalist’s profession by using 2021’s biggest business buzzword twice in one sentence >>

Travel Communication During COVID-19 and Beyond
What business travelers want to know and how they want to hear it: new survey reveals employee traveler communication preferences in a fast-changing world >>

Ecologic Obsolescence: Calculating the Value at Risk for Stranded Hotel Assets
The failure to convert hotels to become net-zero carbon emitters has a major impact on the bottom line by incurring carbon credit expenses or penalties as well as excess energy consumption levels >>

In case you've missed it: Global eNewsletter of January 17, 2022
Dusit REIT gets green light for asset restructuring strategy, strong development across Accor’s Northern European region and more >>