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Capitol Hill Weekly Roundup: A Look at Hotel-Generated Tax Revenue
In his 2024 Fiscal Year Budget announced on March 9, President Joe Biden proposed elevating the tax rate from 21…
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BITAC
BITAC Luxury Panel: A Look at Today’s Luxury Challenges
While the luxury side of the hospitality industry is currently in a prosperous period, challenges still remain for luxury owners…
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BITAC
BITAC Luxury Panel: How Wellness Trends are Shaping the Multi-Trillion Dollar Industry
A big emerging trend when it comes to luxury destinations is wellness opportunities, as more and more guests want access…
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BITAC
BITAC Luxury Panel: Curating the New Luxury Experience
Whether due to the pandemic, inflation or other factors, the luxury side of the hospitality industry has seen huge shifts.…
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Cabot Citrus Farms to Bring Redefined Vision of High-End Golf Destination
As he stood in the sand surrounded by the mossy oak trees and scrub bushes of North Central Florida, Ben…
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Using Pre-Stay Guest Questions to Guide Marketing and Brand Upgrades
On a limited budget, where do you allocate resources to get the most bang for your buck? This is a…
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Management
Engaging with Executives: NorthPointe Hospitality Management President Greg Winey
Introducing a new series from Hotel Interactive — Engaging with Executives. This series will consist of Q&As with executives around…
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A&D, Purchasing Companies
How a Columbus Artist and Mom Created a New Sleeve Design for DoubleTree’s Iconic Cookie
Frequent guests at DoubleTree hotels know they can expect a delicious and warm chocolate chip cookie when they check in.…
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Understanding ChatGPT and its Implications for Hotels
You’ve seen the news. ChatGPT has been lauded and also scolded as a groundbreaking artificial intelligence chatbot that is the…
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Four Big Features for Any Hotel Tech Stack Simplification
The calendar year of 2023 is one of TMS – too many systems! Hotels thus have a present-day need to…
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Using Wine to Grow Revenue Per Guest
The uncertainty around the economy in 2023 will likely translate into some form of normalization of travel numbers at or…
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BITAC
BITAC Food & Beverage Panel: R, B & E/Restaurant Group – 2023 Corporate F&B Positioning
While F&B was the dominant acronym at the BITAC Food & Beverage conference, the third of three panels at the…
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BITAC Food & Beverage Panel: New Concepts in F&B to Bring People Back and Attract Millennials and Gen Z
As the pandemic approaches the end of its third full year, hotel restaurant operators are seeing more and more people…
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BITAC
BITAC Food & Beverage Panel: How to Better Manage F&B Amidst Today’s Labor & Supply Chain Shortages
As the new year begins, hotel executives have labor and supply chain issues on the front of their mind. Shortages…
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Thinking in Terms of Biohacking Foods for Your Hotel
Superfoods have been all the rage for the past decade and chefs have obliged by putting them on the menu.…
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Using Labor Data to Minimize Costs and Turnover
While the pent-up demand from 2022’s travel recovery has now normalized, hotels are still mired by inflationary wages and high…
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Zero-Cost Guest Experience Enhancements for 2023
Mere weeks in 2023, the year is already offering up quite a few question marks as to where to allocate…
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Power Of Pipelines
BITAC Development Panel Highlights Challenges With Ground-Up Deals In ‘22
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What Else to Do with QRs in 2023
Take a moment to think back to what you thought about quick ready (QR) barcodes before the pandemic hit. More…
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Conversational AI Exemplifies the New Era of Hotel Operations
Heading into this past summer’s travel recovery surge, every hotelier knew that labor shortages would be something to contend with,…
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Aiming Higher
Aimbridge Hospitality continues its focus on acquiring top talent on the heels of its recent restructuring this time adding a…
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Schulze Aims to Achieve Top 100 Status
Even billionaires have bucket lists. Richard M. Schulze, founder of retail giant Best Buy, wants the International Course at his…
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The Dependency Ratio and Ongoing Hotel Labor Challenges
By 2050, one-third of the population will be over the age of 65 in most of Western Europe, Japan, South…
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A Look at the Transition to CEO
Alex Tisch smiled at the analogy of his impending move from president of Loews Hotels & Co., to CEO, replacing…