Reading Time: 6 minutes AltoVita co-founder Vivi Cahyadi talks to SAN about the company’s mission to become a global disrupter in the corporate housing sector. • Tell us how and why AltoVita came about “Co-founder Karolina and I are both frequent travellers. Having lived in more than 20 cities and five continents, we understood first-hand
Reading Time: 2 minutes UAE: Increasing demand for holiday home rentals has seen Dream Inn increase its property portfolio by 25 per cent.
Reading Time: 7 minutes OTAs are a vital channel for serviced apartment and aparthotel companies, but is over-reliance on them making operators lazy, asks Duncan Chappell, commercial director at elina PMS. OTAs say “let us do your marketing, we are experts at it” and that “you couldn’t do what they can if you spent the
Reading Time: 4 minutes UAE: hospitality and real estate leaders gathered at Rove hotel and letswork, Dubai Marina this week for Serviced Apartment Summit MEA 2019.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Austen Chen of 2nd Address looks at how serviced apartments in the US offer travellers excellent value when compared with hotels. Serviced apartments offer more than just comfort and amenities, but also cost savings when stacked against a pricey hotel. With kitchens, free Wi-Fi, and fitness centres, serviced apartments offer
Reading Time: 2 minutes US: Furnished Quarters has announced today it will no longer operate Q&A Residential Hotel in Manhattan, with Lyric taking over.
Reading Time: 2 minutes US: San Francisco-based apartment provider Lyric has raised $160 million in a Series B financing and debt financing led by Airbnb.
Reading Time: 5 minutes ASAP CEO James Foice kicked off the 2018 convention with a round up of recent activity, which included the launch of a new supplier directory featuring member properties in 17 countries and a rebrand of the ISAAP accreditation scheme. Foice said that since making quality accreditation of ASAP membership, the
Reading Time: < 1 minute India: Olive Serviced Apartments has boosted its portfolio across major Indian cities to more than 500 units.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Michael de Jongh, Avvio’s chief commercial officer, talks to SAN about Avvio’s Serviced Apartment Award for its Allora booking engine and the best use of technology. How did it feel to win the Serviced Apartment Award for Allora and the best use of technology? “It was an incredible feeling. It