Michal Christine Escobar
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 8/15/2021
Norwegian Resumes Sailing While Experiencing Record-Breaking Demand
While using a more measured approach to its restart of operations, the company says pricing is already higher than 2019 comparable data and full-year 2022 load factor continues to be meaningfully ahead of 2019 record levels by a wide margin. - 8/15/2021
Peermont Resorts Teams with INTELITY to Upgrade Guest Experience Brand-wide
The luxury African hotel, resort, and casino group will deploy the INTELITY platform across all properties to modernize service with mobile, contactless technology. - 8/15/2021
As Business Picks up During a Worker Shortage, Now is the Time for Hotels to Streamline Payment Processing
With a staffing shortage, hoteliers will benefit most by automating tedious back office functions so that employees can spend their time serving valuable guests. - 8/15/2021
Hyatt to Acquire Apple Leisure Group
Doubles Hyatt’s global resorts footprint with accretive net rooms growth over the coming years with global expansion of AMRTM Collection brands like Secrets, Dreams and Zoëtry. - 8/12/2021
Why Hotels Should Consider New Travel Booking Partners
As more startups like Tourist Journey appear, hotels may want to forgo OTAs in favor of these new platforms that attract guests who typically spend more and stay longer. - 8/12/2021
Why Sales Tech Is Driving the Next Era of Hospitality
The hospitality industry has an enormous opportunity at this moment to harness smart, strategic technology to not only meet the obvious new demands of consumers, but also to ease their potential concerns. - 8/11/2021
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Selects AWS as Its Preferred Cloud Provider to Enhance Guest Experiences
Moving to AWS enables Wyndham to enhance business performance, reinvest approximately 45% of reduced data center operating costs, and shut down additional physical data centers, putting it on track to achieve its goal of running 90% of its infrastructure in the cloud. - 8/11/2021
Tripit: Survey Shows 82% of Americans Traveled This Summer
For Americans planning to travel in the next year, an overwhelming majority (87%) plan to take a vacation—up 10% from May 2021. - 8/11/2021
PredictHQ: The Great Hospitality Recovery of 2021 Will Be Uneven
Detailed data analysis of hundreds of thousands of events points towards a robust, but not evenly distributed, recovery for accommodations industry across the US and the world. - 8/11/2021
Hospitality Tech Startup SendSquared Raises $1 Million in Seed Funding
The company’s marketing platform helps hotels and resorts increase bookings and maintain more control over pricing and capacity.
