Reading Time: 2 minutesGermany: Ruby Hotels will launch its first Stuttgart property, comprising a hotel and coworking space, in spring 2023. The Munich-based hotel brand will, for the

Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Cambria Hotels, a boutique brand of Choice Hotels International, has begun using virtual tours to drive hotel business. The group has been leveraging online

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Robin Hutson has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling for a range of measures to support rural hospitality businesses. Hutson, CEO of Lime

Reading Time: 3 minutesGlobal: A joint study by Fast Future, Future Travel Experience (FTE), and the Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) shows investment in digital transformation and automation,

Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Online travel company TripAdvisor is to lay off 900 employees — accounting for almost 25 per cent of its global workforce — in a

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: The UK hospitality sector saw sales decline by 21.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2020, as the country and the industry moved

Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Booking Holdings brands, KAYAK and OpenTable, have announced that 400 employees will be affected by layoffs, furloughs or reductions in their working hours, in

Reading Time: 2 minutesNetherlands and Belgium: A survey conducted by Horwath HTL on 200 hotels in the Benelux shows expectations of a slow recovery with the local market

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSwitzerland: Creative Supply, leading brand consultancy, and the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne have partnered to create a creative hotel guidebook. The Hotel Concept Handbook, as

Reading Time: < 1 minutePortugal: Tourismo de Portugal has created a stamp of approval to let travellers distinguish when a company is compliant with hygiene and cleaning requirements to