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Should hotel rooms be cleaned daily? Housekeepers in those jobs think so : NPR

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Daily room cleaning used to be standard practice in hotels. But since the pandemic, it’s become less so. Nastasic hide caption toggle captions Nastasic Daily room cleaning used to be standard practice in hotels. But since the pandemic, it’s become less so. Nastasic More than a hundred hotel workers and their supporters marched on a gray day last February, wearing bright red knit hats and carrying signs with a message: CLEAN HOTEL ROOMS SAVE JOBS. In the tourism heart of Washington, DC, ringed by posh hotels and globally famous landmarks, they marched to a familiar beat, chanting “What do we…

Tips for Revenue Managers to Cope With Hotel Rate Parity Issues

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While rate parity ensures that you have complete control of setting the bar for your room rates and ensures equal prices across all distribution channels, but it destroys your chances to compete freely in the market and also makes you lose a voluminous amount of potential revenue as massive commissions to the OTAs. The hospitality industry has had a mixed reaction against rate parity with OTAs and hotels having a different take on it. Countries including the USA, France, Italy, and Germany have already started employing measures to either restrict rate parity to specific scenarios, or completely do away with…

West Auckland Trust plans m investment with 10 new hospitality venues –

West Auckland Trust plans $40m investment with 10 new hospitality venues –

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A $40 million plus investment over the next five years to expand the hospitality and retail infrastructure of one of NZ’s largest population centers is set to help address future demand from increased housing density and regeneration around transport hubs. West Auckland has a population of 311,000+ spread over a 578 km2 area and is expected to grow by tens of thousands of residents over the coming years. The Trusts, which has a community mandate to operate liquor licenses in the region, is aiming to grow annual revenues by 23% to $160 million within five years. According to a new…

London hotels hike prices by 60% as they exploit King Charles’ Coronation

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Britons hoping to visit London for the Coronation can still get a hotel on Friday night for anywhere between £66 and £3,000 – as some put up their prices by 60 per cent. Royal fans making a late-notice dash to the capital could opt for the cheapest option of the 2.5-star easyHotel London Croydon, ten miles south of Buckingham Palace. Other very cheap options include the Eurotraveller Hotel-Premier Harrow for £70, Wembley International Hotel for £72 and Grand Sapphire Hotel Croydon for £72. But those with unlimited budgets might desire to look at the five-star Ham Yard Hotel Soho where…

How to Evaluate a Hotel Channel Manager

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Managing all room & rate combinations across multiple platforms is a task that generally falls in the lap of a Revenue Manager (RM). When a hotel has its RM updating room-rate combination on its distribution platform manually then they are wasting the time, which RM should have spent in strategizing. Most hotels today realize that and make use of technology and that’s where the channel manager comes into the picture. While a channel manager seems like a dream product managing entire distribution in a click, it is essential for RM to know how to pick the most suitable. Ability to…

NYC converted hotels to shelters as pressure mounts to accommodate asylum seekers

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NEW YORK (AP) — The historic Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan shuttered three years ago, but it will soon be bustling again — reopening to accommodate an anticipated influx of asylum seekers just as other New York City hotels are being converted to emergency shelters. Mayor Eric Adams announced Saturday that the city will use the Roosevelt to eventually provide as many as 1,000 rooms for migrants who are expected to arrive in coming weeks because of the expiration of pandemic-era rules, known collectively as Title 42, that had allowed federal officials to turn away asylum seekers from the US…

What is a Hotel Channel Manager?

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In today’s digital era, hoteliers face the challenge of keeping their rates in sync, expanding to hundreds of new distribution channels, and maximizing the occupancy of their hotels. There is, therefore, the need for efficient room inventory management across multiple online distribution channels. This is where a channel manager becomes indispensable. Choosing the perfect hotel channel manager software requires careful consideration. But to do that, we need to first understand what a channel manager is, its benefits, and the features to consider before choosing the ideal channel manager for your property. What is a Hotel Channel Manager? A hotel channel…

Trudeau stayed in a ,000 London hotel suite for Queen Elizabeth’s funeral

Trudeau stayed in a $6,000 London hotel suite for Queen Elizabeth’s funeral

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The Prime Minister’s Office says Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, stayed in a $6,000 per night hotel suite while attending the funeral for Queen Elizabeth. The stay at the Corinthia London hotel became the subject of public debate last fall when the media honed in on the details of the $400,000 trip, after obtaining documents through access-to-information requests. But Trudeau’s office and Global Affairs Canada did not respond to questions last month about who stayed in the expensive river suite, which features a butler service. The Opposition MPs on the government operations committee asked for a copy…