Snapshot: urban living – the hospitality and real estate winners and losers
Worldwide: International Hospitality Media CEO Piers Brown provides a snapshot of who will be the hospitality and real estate winners and losers within the urban living space post Covid-19. The Covid-19 humanitarian challenge will have lasting effects on how people stay, live and work in the future. These three themes will be explored by hospitality and real […]
How coronavirus will democratise technology in hospitality and real estate
Worldwide: The coronavirus will not arrest the march of technology within accommodation – it will accelerate it with new use cases and even newer applications. As the battle against Covid-19 intensifies, technology is proving an indispensable weapon in the fight against future pandemics with many successful applications saving lives like Trace Together: the recently launched […]
Hungarian hospitality industry mobilises to fight coronavirus
Hungary: With Budapest’s streets empty due to the impact of coronavirus, the Hungarian hospitality industry has responded by mobilised its services to support healthcare workers, the sick and the elderly. In the capital city, a group of Airbnb operators have joined together on Facebook to provide accommodation to medical workers. The capital has around 10,000 Airbnb […]
Boris Johnson announces closure of hospitality venues
UK: In his now regular daily briefing, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced further measures to tackle coronavirus by ordering the closure of hospitality venues, such as cafes, pubs and restaurants. Earlier in the week, Johnson had called for the British public to simply “avoid” such venues but in Friday’s briefing, he ordered all […]
Boris Johnson launches containment measures: avoid pubs, clubs, and theatres
UK: In the first of his daily coronavirus briefings, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has advised UK citizens to avoid pubs, clubs and theatres. The PM has suggested an end to all non-essential contact for the time being in order to help slow the outbreak. The briefing suggested a variety of measures, including necessary self-isolation, […]
TurnKey Vacation Rentals wins Travel Weekly award
United States: Turnkey Vacation Rentals, Inc. has been recognised with a Travel Weekly Magellan Award for Hospitality-Overall in the Vacation Rentals / Villas / Time Share category for the second consecutive year. The third-largest vacation rental management company in the United States manages over 3700 vacation rental properties in more than 55 markets, including in […]
Emaar launches online home-sharing platform in Dubai
UAE: Emaar has launched an online platform dedicated specifically to home-sharing in Dubai. Ease by Emaar, which the website describes as a ‘hometel’, is based on a similar model to AirBnb, which provides a home-stay experience combining the home and hospitality services of a hotel. An Airbnb listing states that the team managing stay experiences […]