Expo 2020 drove Dubai hotel occupancy above 90%, Berlin sees a healthy March, greener future for air travel and more...

Expo 2020 drove Dubai hotel occupancy above 90%
Thursday, 14th April 2022

Driven by the final weeks of Expo 2020, Dubai’s hotel industry reported its first month of 90% or better occupancy since 2007, according to preliminary March 2022 data from STR.

Like past renditions of Expo in Shanghai (2010) and Milan (2015), the end of the “mega event” proved to be the busiest for Dubai >>

A new global survey points to a greener future for air travel
14 Apr 2022 : Opportunities for industry leaders as new travelers take to the skies.

Travel fell sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic—airline revenues dropped by 60 percent in 2020, and air travel and tourism are not expected to return to 2019 levels before 2024. While this downturn is worrisome, it is likely to be temporary >>

Ascott targets 150 lyf coliving properties by 2030
14 Apr 2022 : Expands lyf’s coliving experience into the metaverse with the launch of lyf Innovation Lab to design and implement immersive virtual reality and augmented reality technologies >>

Europe hotel transaction news
14 Apr 2022 : Hotel, travel and transactions news from around the European region: SomnOO acquires four hotels in France, Tristan Capital Partners with Queensway acquire majority shareholding in Point A Hotels and more >>

HIGHLIGHT ARTICLE

The Reality of Your Hotel Audience
Thursday, 14th April 2022

The importance of knowing your true audience: You originally built your hotel, and website, with a specific audience in mind. Detailed target demographic data formed the basis for everything. The designs, the image selection, the media campaigns, all of it. But that was years ago >>

Airlines – The End of Golden Days or 'The Beginning of Our Third Epoch'?
So on the one hand, you have Peter Harbison, executive chairman, CAPA (Centre of Aviation) painting a rather grim picture for the future of aviation – he believes the golden days may be over – and on the other, Sir Tim Clark, president of Emirates declaring 'the beginning of our third epoch' >>

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