Growing appetite among travelers and businesses for technology-based solutions, sustainability and more...

Growing appetite among travelers and businesses for technology-based solutions
Thursday, 29th September 2022

A new report finds two-thirds of international travelers and import/export traders surveyed are supportive of deploying existing and emerging technology solutions to improve operations in the movement of people and goods

The report’s findings indicate that maintaining the status quo is not an option for border agencies. Fifty-seven percent of international travelers claimed to select their travel or layover destination based on whether they think their experience with border security will be seamless and easy, while 28% have changed travel or layover destinations because they anticipated a difficult border experience. >>

Sustainable travel gives opportunities for travel industry
29 Sep 2022 : 8 in 10 travellers recognise the importance of sustainable travel and COVID-19 greatly fueled people’s appetite to travel sustainably. 67.7% of travellers are open to paying more for sustainable options >>

Canada hotel occupancy reached three-year high in August
29 Sep 2022 : Canada’s monthly hotel occupancy reached its highest absolute level for any month since August 2019, according to STR’s August 2022 data >>

European hotel transactions news
29 Sep 2022 : Hotel news and transactions from around the European region: Blackstone and Bourne to sell Butlin’s to Harris family, Arrow Global acquires Hotel California and more >>

IHG expands lifestyle portfolio in Saudi Arabia
25 Sep 2022 : The Hotel Indigo Jeddah signing comes a year after the brand’s entry into the Kingdom >>

HIGHLIGHT ARTICLE

Managing Hotels Through High Inflation
Thursday, 29th September 2022

A game of maximising revenues and controlling costs, hears HVS seminar. The biggest challenges affecting hotels through this period of high inflation relate to the cost of labour, rising energy prices, coping with supply chain issues, the cost of debt and uncertainty that makes budgeting for the year ahead almost impossible >>

Global Update: Who's Where and Doing What
Global update of who is moving where and from where - keep track of old colleagues and friends or find lost ones, brought to you by The Boutique Search Firm >>

To Automate, or Not to Automate the Guest Experience in Hospitality?
The classic philosophy in hospitality - and supposedly the very reason why our industry is called 'hospitality' - is because our guests expect their hosts - the hotel staff themselves - to provide 'human' services at all touchpoints of the guest experience >>

In case you've missed it: Global eNews of September 28, 2022
Meliá launches Meliá PRO Business Traveller, a program designed for the return of corporate travel, Rotana and more >>