Upside Business Travel goes down
Upside Business Travel will wind down operations before officially closing next month, the company announced. Launched in 2016 by Priceline… Read More »
Best Western CEO Assesses Permanence of Pandemic Changes
Best Western Hotel Group CEO David Kong spoke with BTN senior editor Donna M. Airoldi at the Americas Lodging Investment… Read More »
Marriott Expands Connect with Confidence Program to Caribbean, Latin America
Marriott International has expanded its Connect with Confidence meetings program beyond the United States and Canada and into the Caribbean… Read More »
Kalibri Labs Predicts Lodging Recovery Slowdown for Rest of 2021
Citing sluggish group and business demand, weakening leisure demand and the spread of the Covid-19 delta variant, Kalibri Labs now… Read More »
STR: July U.S. Hotel ADR, RevPAR Exceed 2019 Levels
In absolute numbers, July 2021 average daily rate and revenue per available room for U.S. hotels exceeded July 2019 levels,… Read More »
Amex GBT Earns Patents for Booking, Chat Tech
American Express Global Business Travel has been awarded two new U.S. patents for technology designed for use by corporate travelers… Read More »
Report: Q2 U.S. Extended-Stay Demand at Record High
Second-quarter demand for U.S. extended-stay room nights reached record levels not only for the category as a whole but also… Read More »
Hyatt to Acquire Apple Leisure Group, Double Resort Footprint
Hyatt Hotels Corp. has entered into an agreement to acquire Apple Leisure Group for $2.7 billion in cash, the company… Read More »
Intrado Acquires Hubb
Digital event solution provider Intrado Digital Media has acquired hybrid event management company Hubb, the companies announced Friday. The deal… Read More »
GSA Hikes FY22 Federal Per Diem Rate, Holds Lodging Allowance Steady
The U.S. General Services Administration’s standard per diem for fiscal year 2022 will be $155, up $4 from last year’s… Read More »
HotelPlanner.com To Go Public Via SPAC
HotelPlanner.com, which is the parent company of Meetings.com, will go public through a merger with online travel agency Reservations.com and… Read More »
STR, Tourism Economics Upgrade 2021 U.S. Hotel Forecast on Demand Surge
STR and Tourism Economics have upgraded their 2021 U.S. hotel forecast for the second time in three months, citing a… Read More »
Emirates Adds Routehappy Content to NDC Platform
Emirates has integrated Routehappy content into its direct connect New Distribution Capability API platform, ATPCO announced. The integration enables Emirates… Read More »
HotelPlanner.com To Go Public Via SPAC
HotelPlanner.com, which is the parent company of Meetings.com, will go public through a merger with online travel agency Reservations.com and… Read More »
Emirates Adds Routehappy Content to NDC Platform
Emirates has integrated Routehappy content into its direct connect New Distribution Capability API platform, ATPCO announced. The integration enables Emirates… Read More »
IHG Hotels & Resorts: U.S., China Continue Demand Momentum
Leisure demand continued to boost IHG Hotels & Resorts’ recovery during the first half of 2021, but “we are now… Read More »
SAP Concur Adds Meetings Solution Powered by Groupize
SAP Concur has partnered with meetings management company Groupize to offer what the companies call an end-to-end self-service meetings management… Read More »
Emirates Joins Aeronology NDC Direct Connect Platform
Emirates has agreed to provide its New Distribution Capability inventory to Melbourne-based Aeronology’s platform via Aeronology’s NDC Direct Connect technology…. Read More »
Choice: June, July RevPAR Exceeds Pre-Pandemic Levels
Choice Hotels’ second-quarter domestic systemwide revenue per available room declined 1.1 percent compared with the same period in 2019, with… Read More »
Hyatt ‘Encouraged’ by Business Transient, Group Demand
Hyatt Hotels Corp. is encouraged by the steady recent improvement in its business transient and group segments, president and CEO… Read More »
Emirates Joins Aeronology NDC Direct Connect Platform
Emirates has agreed to provide its New Distribution Capability inventory to Melbourne-based Aeronology’s platform via Aeronology’s NDC Direct Connect technology…. Read More »
Marriott ‘Turns the Corner’ with Improving Corp. Demand
Marriott International during the second quarter and in July experienced what it called a widespread rebound in business travel bookings,… Read More »