Minor Hotels targets 200+ new openings, hotel sustainability outlook for 2024 and more...

Minor Hotels targets 200+ new openings
Monday, 29th January 2024

Minor Hotels is targeting more than 200 new openings globally within three years, as the Bangkok-based hotel owner and operator unveils new details of its dynamic commercial strategy for 2024 and beyond.

The target for new hotels would increase the group's global portfolio by almost 40% from its current count of 540 properties, as well as adding more than 30,000 rooms to its present inventory of almost 80,000 >>

PolyU develops the first self-adaptive platform for tourism demand forecasts across the Greater Bay Area
29 Jan 2024 : Total international visitor arrivals to the Greater Bay Area are forecasted to recover to the pre-pandemic level at close to 130M by the end of 2024, and the total number of inbound visitor arrivals to Hong Kong to recover to the 2018 level of 65M by 2025 >>

Global Hotel Alliance reports record 2023
28 Jan 2024 : US top feeder market for GHA hotels contributing $268 million, over 10% of revenue while international stays contribute 60% of revenue, with Maldives, Thailand and Portugal as most popular destinations >>

Trip.com Group pledges to boost tourism in Southeast Asia
27 Jan 2024 : During the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Trip.com Group CEO Ms Jane Sun held private meetings with key leaders from Southeast Asian countries >>

HIGHLIGHT ARTICLE

Hotel Sustainability Outlook for 2024 Starts with Profitability
Monday, 29th January 2024

Sustainability is the future for hotels, full stop. However profit-conscious or skeptical of international policies you may be, it’s becoming exceedingly difficult to fight against the flow of the river that is action against human-born climate change. What we argue, though, is that going forward profitability and sustainability are the same thing >>

A Simple Fix to Stop Wasting Customers’ Time
Duplicate or triplicate (or more) effort is a waste of time! If you’re making your customer go through the same process multiple times, you’re creating a negative customer experience >>

In case you've missed it: Global eNews of January 26, 2024
Hotels embrace ancillary revenue in 2023, Ascott expands Oakwood portfolio by more than 20% and more >>