Hotels are incorporating technology at every turn to keep guests safe and hopefully feeling comfortable enough to stay at their struggling facilities. Rapidly developing apps and new hotel management software are being created on a daily basis to adapt to consumers' changing needs in the face of COVID-19. Customer service doesn’t mean what it used to. Service with a smile has been covered with a facemask and taken a back seat to service at a safe distance.<

Though the hospitality and leisure industries in America only make up only 11% of the total workforce, their employees have endured over one-third of all job losses in the United States. Hotels, restaurants, bars, clubs, and cafes make up the sector that is struggling more than any at the moment. And their staffs who keep these businesses afloat have been left scrambling, oftentimes forced to focus on new career paths and different opportunities that are conducive to post-pandemic life. More than half of the employees working in hospitality were laid off in March and April. Hiring picked up to two million returning jobs in June, but that number quickly stalled to only 600,000 by mid-summer. These staggering numbers beg the question of what the future of this industry holds. And how will these businesses adapt if they hope to stay in business.<

When you hear the word events, you will probably think of special moments. Especially when the event is centered around you, you tend to remember every single detail that happens. If you wish to have one of the best events ever hosted, you need lots of preparations ranging from the welcoming, ticket sales, performance, menu, invitation letters, transportation, etc. Everything has to be near perfect, which will last long in the memory of your customers. <

The future of real estate is being shaped right now. The coronavirus has joined climate change as two of the most dangerous threats to the human population on planet earth. And the ‘twin-crises’ are specifically transforming the real estate sector, just as they have already affected numerous other industries around the world.<

When someone Google’s a term with the formula “hotel in [location]”, for example: “hotel in New York” or “hotel in Miami”, the search engine delivers them a map embedded with the location and prices of hotels in the relevant area.<

Amid the devastation that COVID-19 has brought upon the world, the hospitality industry is trying its hardest to remain upbeat and pull through to the other side. Still, this is easier said than done. Hospitality businesses thrive on bringing people together which to experts, is the antithesis of how to manage the spread of the virus and flatten the curve. <

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In order for a hotel to determine its performance level and overall success, they can calculate various results from Key Performance Indicators, or KPIs. One of the KPIs that hotels can utilize is occupancy rate; simply put, the number of rooms that are in use during a given day or time period divided by the total number of rooms. Success is measured many different ways in the hotel industry, but occupancy rate is one of the most important factors to managing a hotel. <

The difference between a Motel and Hotel is pretty widely spread out, but the preconceived opinion is pretty much small. Suppose you do a random survey asking people in your neighborhood to tell you the difference between hotel and motel, you would be surprised most of them wouldn’t be able to give you a definite answer, and this is because most individuals tend to use them interchangeably. <

Travel agencies have been around for quite some time; brick and mortar travel agencies were highly utilized until the advent of online travel agencies in the 1980s. Helpful to the hospitality and tourism industry, OTAs connect guests to real-time booking engines and expedite the process. <

You’ve got your travel plans solidified, a general idea of an itinerary, and the suitcases dusted off–but then your eyes land on your favorite furry friend (or friends!). Perhaps you’ve forgotten to ask your relatives to puppysit in time, your friends are out of town too, or it is too late to book a reservation for your pets to stay at their own resort for the time being. Maybe you plan on taking your dogs or cats with you; whatever the situation may be, it can be difficult to incorporate your pets into your travel plans, particularly when not all hotels allow pets–or even only allow certain kinds.<