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Reading Time: 15 minutesAfter a topsy-turvy 2022, here are some hospitality and real estate trends for the year ahead, some more unexpected than others. IHM’s editorial team – George Sell, Paul Stevens and Eloise Hanson – reports.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes[SPONSORED CONTENT] Cvent highlights some key findings from its latest Travel Manager Report and how venues can best capture demand in 2023.

Reading Time: 3 minutesIndustry leaders share their thoughts on the travel, hospitality and economic landscape in 2023. BHN reports.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesTea Colaianni, founder of WiHTL, highlights how diversity, equality and inclusion (DE&I) initiatives can support the ‘S’ in ESG strategies.
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Reading Time: 12 minutesBHN editor Eloise Hanson outlines six hotel and travel trends expected to shape the industry in 2023.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes[SPONSORED CONTENT] Payment software company Flywire outlines some key considerations for easing the booking and payment process.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes[SPONSORED CONTENT] Here are five hotel meeting and event trends that hotels need to know for 2023.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesAli Powell, CEO and founder of Commercial Acceleration, highlights why it’s important for hoteliers to revise their strategies to cater to new behaviours.

Reading Time: 6 minutesBHN speaks to two hospitality professionals who graduated from the General Managers Program (GMP) at Cornell University a decade ago, to learn about their career progression and how the industry has evolved in that time.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesSimon Bullingham, CEO of Journey Hospitality, explains what hotels can learn from high-end department store, Selfridges.
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