
Reading Time: < 1 minute• IHG has certainly approached 2018 with all guns blazing. The launch of the new Voco brand adds an upscale conversion brand, an area where the company

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAmazon’s launch of Alexa for Hospitality signals a sea change in the use of voice activation technology in hospitality – it will very quickly become a service

Reading Time: < 1 minuteGoodwin Gaw’s entry to the European hotel sector is likely to make some waves, as he is not a main known for doing things by halves. Gaw

Reading Time: < 1 minute• Accor’s Sebastien Bazin threw us all a curve ball a few weeks ago when the company announced it was acquiring a 50 per cent
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Reading Time: < 1 minute• I wrote recently about how the boutique hotel sector is incredibly versatile in the way it can take buildings and repurpose them, giving them

Reading Time: 3 minutesRodrigo Nino reportedly invested US$400 million in New York real estate recently, funded from small investments from more than 34 countries, for his new hospitality

Reading Time: < 1 minuteRecruitment and staff retention is always at or near the top of the list when hoteliers are asked about the challenges the industry faces. And

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe visited MIPIM 2018, the real estate exhibition, conference and networking eventin Cannes to catch up with international property professionals from hospitality. The conference programme

Reading Time: < 1 minuteGood luck to those at the helm of UKHospitality, the new body made up of the merged ALMR and BHA which will be the voice of

Reading Time: < 1 minute• The phoney war is over. Airbnb has just sent a shot across the bows of its competitors that will echo long and loud in
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