Michal Christine Escobar

Senior Editor, Hotels

Author Profile

Michal Christine Escobar is Hospitality Technology’s Senior Editor, with a concentration on the hotel industry. She has a decade of experience as a B2B journalist. She is responsible for the hotel beat at the magazine and often writes about AI, VR, IoT and other emerging technologies affecting hospitality.

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

1/2/2023
eviivo Reveals Top Hospitality and Booking Tech Trends for 2023
From APIs to direct booking, leading hospitality tech company reveals most significant hospitality technology trends emerging in 2023 and beyond.

Michal Christine Escobar
12/27/2022
The Pros and Cons of Using Robots in Hotels
Robots can handle mundane tasks, improve service speed and accuracy, and allow human employees to focus on relationship building, but they aren’t a perfect solution.

Michal Christine Escobar
12/27/2022
Cross-Border Payments: The Customer Experience Differentiator for Hospitality
Streamlining payments can be challenging, but it isn’t impossible.

Michal Christine Escobar
12/26/2022
Sandpiper Hospitality Partners with ProfitSword to Offer Its Hotels Dynamic Business Intelligence Capabilities
Each of Sandpiper Hospitality’s 60 managed properties nationwide will have access to ProfitSword’s suite of advanced budgeting and performance forecasting tools.

Michal Christine Escobar
12/26/2022
UNITE HERE Local 11 Asks City Attorney to Investigate Whether Dream Hollywood is Fully Complying with LA’s Panic Button Law
UNITE HERE Local 11 is a labor union representing more than 32,000 hospitality workers in Southern California and Arizona who work in hotels, restaurants, universities, convention centers, and airports.

Michal Christine Escobar
12/21/2022
Three Ways Self-Service Technologies Can Improve the Hospitality Industry
From augmenting staffing shortages to building better guest relationships, self-service tech has an important place in 2023.

Michal Christine Escobar
12/21/2022
HFTP and AHLA Announce 10-year USALI Agreement
HFTP/AHLA Committee will jointly produce Hospitality Accounting Standard.

Michal Christine Escobar
12/21/2022
Stephanie Linnartz to Step Down from Marriott International
Long-time Marriott veteran to become President and CEO of Under Armour.

Michal Christine Escobar
12/20/2022
INTELITY Announces Updated Strategic Partnership with Unifocus, formerly Knowcross
The updated partnership will provide new features for a stronger staff operations flow.

Michal Christine Escobar
12/20/2022
Peachtree Hospitality Management Names Rachel Huang Vice President of Hotel Analytics & Support
Huang brings with her 20-plus years of international hospitality analytics and project management experience.

Michal Christine Escobar