Post-Covid Sustainability: How Hotels Can Maximize Opportunity While Keeping Costs Down
Written by: Olivia Ruggles-Brise As the world emerges from the pandemic, there is an increasing amount of buzz about sustainability, particularly the climate crisis. Governments around the world are setting ambitious decarbonization targets in advance of the COP26 event in…
Farewell to 2020: A Look Back at the Challenges, Opportunities Presented by a Pandemic
The final HFTP Europe Hangout of the year made a few requests of its participants: wear some fun holiday garb, bring your sense of humor, tell a few stories about how 2020 put everyone through the ringer – and, on…
Innovation Is the Way Forward: Get Back to Business in a New Way
Now that the world is just days away from the official start of a new season, the hotel market is evaluating its post-summer state of affairs and trying to figure out how best to get back to business this fall….
Embracing Change: Lessons Learned During a Pandemic that Has Changed Hospitality
For the past three months, HFTP has hosted weekly “Hangout” sessions on Zoom, uniting hospitality professionals to learn from and support each other during a particularly difficult period. Paul West has been a familiar face in these virtual meetings, so…
No Need to Be Depressed: Uplifting Revenue Management Tips When Revenue Is Down
One whose title is “chief evangelist” is driven by his mission to deliver good news. And so it went with this week’s European HFTP Hangout presenter, IDeaS Chief Evangelist Klaus Kohlmayr. His aim is to bring hoteliers across the globe…
Selecting the Right Industry Standards for Your Property
This is not the first time that the hospitality industry has had to respond to major changes. Currently the managing director at Heyward Hospitality, Michael Heyward‘s background in revenue management dates to the arrival of the first online travel agencies…
Retirement Planning During Covid-19: What Has Changed with the U.S. CARES Act
The economic decline and market volatility resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic has created anxiety around retirement planning and financial security in the United States. In response, the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (more popularly known as “the…
Create a Culture of Agility, Place These Five Tech Bets
Phil Le-Brun, director, enterprise strategy at Amazon Web Services, says there is one word that is mentioned, on average, every six minutes during executive meetings: agility. How can you do more, and faster, with less? Agile companies have a few…
Getting Value from Cloud Services in Today’s Environment
The first European HFTP Hangout in June was a masterclass on hospitality business software-as-a-service (SaaS) costs and cloud services optimization. It was presented by Carson Booth, CHTP, HFTP Global director and former CEO of SnapShot GmbH. Cloud services optimization really…
Hotel Trends: Reducing Costs and Contact in Rooms, Staff and F&B
The first week of June kicked off with a general HFTP Hangout that covered hotel market trends and trajectories, presented by CBRE Hotels Advisory representatives Mark Van Stekelenburg, Andy Hartley and Vanessa Gonzalez. CBRE presented a wealth of industry data…