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Hotels Should Become More Business Minded

By Patrick Landman: Unfortunately too often General Managers still influence the strategic decision making process of hotels based on feeling, market knowledge and 'experience'. And not to single out GM's, in the hotel industry in ...

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Lessons Learned from Top Asian Hotels

By Larry Mogelonsky: A recent tour of five Asian cities opened my eyes to how hospitality products and services should be managed.  I was really taken aback.  Backed by strong national economies, continuously growing ADR ...

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How Can Hoteliers Take Full Advantage of Pinterest?

By Eric  Garza: Pinterest is a niche social network based on virtual pin boards. By January 2012, the site received 11.5 million unique visitors. With Pinterest rapidly becoming one of the most popular social media ...

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Voice Mail Etiquette, 5 Musts to Leaving Better Messages after the BEEP!

By Jim Hartigan: We’ve all experienced the symptoms before. Your palms begin to sweat. You heart rate doubles. You feel short of breath. You become dizzy and disoriented. And suddenly you hear it: that awful ...

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Top Trends In Luxury Travel In China

China is one of the biggest countries of self made millionaires and billionaires and it has managed a strong position on financial map of the world. The number of millionaire and billionaire has increased considerably ...

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Are Hotel "Energy" Fees About to Make a Comeback?

By Christopher Elliott: The Oyster Bay Beach Resort is a highrise hotel in St. Martin that promises guests white-sand beaches, "breathtaking" views of the Caribbean and a "paradise found." But Jack Permadi says he found ...

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Underwater Hotel to Be Dubai's Latest Extravagance

By Vanessa Wong: Skylines are so passé. In an attempt to give travelers better—or at least closer—ocean views, Dubai-based construction company Drydocks World and Swiss consulting, engineering, and brokerage firm BIG InvestConsult will build the ...

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Hotels to Move Ahead – Eventually

By Miriam Lamey: According to results from commercial real estate's annual Lodging Industry Investment Council survey titled, The LIIC Top Ten, executives are still debating just exactly when the hotel market will peak. Significantly, 37% ...

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Hotel News in Brief

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For Hotels, Online Reputation Management Starts on Property

By Daniel Edward Craig: How is everything going with your stay? It's a question asked all too rarely, and yet it strikes me as one of the most important a hotel can ask its guests ...

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Great Ways For Hotels To Target International Travelers Online

By Ashely Stevens: According to a recent survey by the World Tourism Organization, there were over 940 million international tourist arrivals worldwide in 2011. Almost 60 million of those travelers are coming in to the ...

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The Future of Travel Search: New Media Change Landscape

The emergence of social media sites which foster quick and updated information. It has become a part of every discretionary traveler since these sites are home to unlimited information. They show even more interest because ...

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How to Boost Workplace Creativity

By Anita Campbell: Have you ever worked at a big corporation? If so, you're probably familiar with the infamous "suggestion box"-that anonymous place where employees are supposed to submit ideas that never get read (or, ...

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London's Hotel Market is Booming

20 new top hotels have opened their doors during the past year - 37 new hotel projects with more than 8,800 rooms are in the pipeline - further 10 new hotels will open up until ...

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Rio Hotels Are The World's Most Expensive

Rio de Janeiro has overtaken Sydney as the world's most expensive major city for a hotel stay, according to a new study....

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China Travel Ban Hits Hotels, Resorts

By Stella F. Arnaldo: Hotels and resorts in Boracay, Cebu and Bohol are reporting cancellations in bookings from China, as tensions continue between Manila and Beijing over Scarborough Shoal in the West Philippine Sea (South ...

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How To See The Cannes Film Festival In Style

By Caroline Patek: The Cannes Film Festival is set to be even more glamorous than usual this year-the legendary event marks its 65th anniversary when it kicks off on May 16th. Celebrity A-listers, veteran directors ...

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Hotel News in Brief

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Do You Hate the OTAs – Part Deux?

By Jean Francois Mourier: Last week, I wrote an article about how hotels hate online travel agencies (OTAs) because of the commissions charged by the sites for each and every booking. Today, I want to ...

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