Articles tagged “hotels”

Boydell’s departure won’t close the book on Travelodge’s security crisis. An independent review is ongoing and industry-wide safety talks have put the sector on notice.

On this episode of Suite Success, host Katie Cline sits down with Brandon Berkson, founder of Hotels Above Par, a boutique publication reaching more than half a million readers, as…

On this week's Good Morning Hospitality, A Skift Podcast: Hotels Edition, Sarah Dandashy and Steve Turk dig into how the hotel industry measures success, where capital is flowing, and who…

Sustainability has moved from a niche preference to an expectation, but travelers’ intentions and their booking behavior don't always align. While many say sustainability matters, it doesn’t consistently influence final decisions, creating a gap between perception and action.

The roughly 200 brands across the big hotel groups make more sense as an answer to a quarterly growth metric than to anything travelers asked for.

Hotel groups and corporate clients burn months every year haggling over room rates that often fail to show up when employees actually book. Accor is leaning on automation to help fix this.

Fee cuts are the story of this earnings season. IHG has a different answer and a different argument for why it doesn’t need to follow peer pressure.

Contract language protects an organization's right to be made whole. It doesn't produce the number that proves what "whole" means. 

Lemon Tree is betting a homegrown brand can find its own following abroad. But for now, it’s drawing the line at three hours’ flying time.

As Brian Chesky tells it, AI seems to be really kicking in at Airbnb. Excluding the LLMs and hyper-scalers, he argues that Airbnb went from being a middle-of-the-pack AI company to "a leader in AI."