Editor’s Comments

Gaining momentum

Reading Time: < 1 minute • Encouraging news for serviced apartments and the extended stay sector this week as the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) renamed its hotel committees, dropping the word hotel in favour of accommodations. As committee member Jan Jacobsen of AIG said: “While hotels are still a very important element of most corporate

Editor’s Comments

Around the world

Reading Time: < 1 minute • The results of the seventh GSAIR report in to the global serviced apartment industry provide fascinating, and for the most part, encouraging reading. A 23 per cent increase in global inventory over just two years represents incredible growth, and shows that there is still huge room for expansion until the sector

Features

More than just a number

Reading Time: 8 minutes As well as booking directly with the operator, serviced apartment users have a proliferation of OTAs and other online platforms at their fingertips. Add to this a growing use of GDS, agents, TMCs, relocation companies and others, and it becomes clear that the serviced apartment product is in danger of