AHLA Releases Report on State of U.S. Hotel Industry
WASHINGTON — The American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) released AHLA’s State of the Hotel Industry 2021 last week, outlining the forecasted state of the hotel industry...
Booking.com Enters Partnership with Crypto.com
HONG KONG — Booking.com and Crypto.com have partnered to offer travel deals to Crypto.com users exclusively through the Crypto.com app.
Through the partnership, Crypto.com users who make Booking.com...
Best Western Partners with FranklinCovey to Elevate Hotel Leadership
PHOENIX — Best Western Hotels & Resorts (BWHR) has selected FranklinCovey’s ‘gold standard’ leadership-development curriculum to assist in further elevating leadership excellence in its general managers at...
Seven out of 10 Americans Unlikely to Travel for Holidays
WASHINGTON — A new national survey commissioned by the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) shows many Americans are not expected to travel this holiday season. Results...
European Hotel Construction Pipeline Increases by Seven Per Cent
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. ─ According to the latest Europe Hotel Construction Pipeline Trend Report from Lodging Econometrics (LE), analysts report that at the close of the third quarter...
U.S. Set to Lose 9.2 Million Jobs in 2020 Due to COVID-19 and Travel...
LONDON, UK — A staggering 9.2 million jobs could be lost in the U.S. travel-and-tourism sector in 2020 if barriers to global travel remain in place, the...
International Tourism Down 70 Per Cent as Travel Restrictions Impact All Regions
MADRID, Spain — Restrictions on travel introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic continue to hit global tourism hard, with the latest data from the World Tourism...
Accor Successfully Implements ALLSAFE Standards Globally
PARIS — On October 15, Accor announced it had successfully re-opened most of its hotels, with 95 per cent of them having already adopted the group’s ALLSAFE...
Survey Finds 74 Per Cent of Hotels Will Lay Off More Employees Without Further...
WASHINGTON — As devastated industries wait for Congress to pass another round of COVID-19-recovery legislation, a new survey of American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) members shows...
Hyatt Partners with Amazon for Amazon Halo Launch
CHICAGO — Hyatt Hotels Corporation has entered a new collaboration between its Exhale brand and Amazon Halo, a health-and-wellness membership that uses technology to provide personal-wellness insights...