Reading Time: 3 minutes In the lead up to International Hospitality Media’s Urban Living Festival, SAN editor George Sell hosted the second in a series of webinars on urban living trends.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Zeevou’s Hamid Vosooghfar outlines three lessons apartment operators and hosts can learn from the Coronavirus pandemic to boost their direct business.
Reading Time: 7 minutes SAN editor George Sell talks to leading serviced apartment agents about the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and its potential influence in shaping the sector’s future.
Reading Time: 6 minutes As airlines, hotels and restaurants try to figure out what the ‘new’ or ‘next’ normal will look like, they will also have to consider who pays for any new cleaning and hygiene standards.
Reading Time: 8 minutes Worldwide: Working in a service industry has never been an easy profession. The combined balancing acts of being efficient, courteous, welcoming and adaptable for a long shift create mental friction for even the most tenured professional. This goes double for those who work in hospitality, whose hours are irregular, whose efforts are expected to be extraordinary, and who work in businesses with extremely thin margins. These are all recipes for stress.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Back in early March I wrote an article for our sister publication Boutique Hotel News about a trending buzzword in real estate circles – the “hotelisation” of real estate. Basically it means the application of hotel-type services and a hospitality service ethos to other real estate classes such as offices and homes.
Reading Time: 6 minutes Communications and content strategist, and head of academic editorial content at Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, Stuart Pallister, analyses the need for credible hygiene certification to gain trust and create jobs in the hospitality sector during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Johan Pilon of Zeevou looks at three core ideas which can help businesses become stronger in the face of adversity.
Reading Time: 6 minutes Andrew Harrington of AHV Associates looks at the potential effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the hospitality investment landscape.
Reading Time: 11 minutes Sean Worker of T5 Strategies offers his thoughts on the view from the Covid peak and how to successfully negotiate
Reading Time: 2 minutes Worldwide: Sustainability consultancy Considerate Group has updated its ESG data intelligence platform Con-Serve, developed in partnership with Deepki.
Reading Time: < 1 minute US: Upscale economy hotel chain Red Roof has opened a new build and prototype, the HomeTowne Studios by Red Roof Tampa – Airport.
Reading Time: < 1 minute UK: Aparthotel operator Staycity Group has opened its fourth Wilde property in London, located close to Liverpool Street Station.
Reading Time: < 1 minute UK: The luxury Sanctum Apartments, located in north-west London, is being marketed at a guide price of £30 million by real estate agency Savills.
Reading Time: < 1 minute India: Construction company Leighton Asia has secured a $87 million contract by property developer Elan Group for a mixed-use serviced apartment project in Gurgaon, India.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Singapore: Corporate accommodation provider CAP Worldwide has expanded its global leadership team with the appointment of Jingpei Lin as director of APAC.
Reading Time: < 1 minute UK: Vertus Edit, the first aparthotel project from Vertus, the BTR arm of Canary Wharf Group, is scheduled to open in February 2025.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Worldwide: The latest quarterly report from SilverDoor reveals that, due to increases in supply, corporate travel is expected to increase worldwide as managers negotiate rates and value.
Reading Time: < 1 minute US: The WaterWalk brand, which joined Wyndham’s extended stay portfolio earlier this year, has launched its management arm WaterWalk Hospitality.
Reading Time: < 1 minute US: Hyatt’s upper-midscale extended stay brand Hyatt Studios is expected to debut in 2025 with a property in Mobile, Alabama.