Hospitality Sector Teams Up Online to Help During the Crisis
Photo Credit: InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has been running a Lights of Love campaign where properties are encourage to leave hotel lights on to signal hearts or a message of love during the crisis. IHG
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The hospitality industry has always fundamentally been about bringing people together creatively. So it makes sense that the lodging sector has been putting together resources online to trade operational insights and to share ways to help their communities.
The hotel and lodging industry has been pulling together online resources to help each other and their communities during the coronavirus crisis.
Helping re-purpose beds for medical use may be the most obvious possible way to help. A new tech platform launched earlier this week can make the matchmaking process easier between lodging operators and local emergency efforts. Owners of a property can make beds or buildings available by using an online form to specify how they're willing to help. Cloudbeds has worked with Sabre, Marriott, and RateGain and others on the effort.
Hotels for Helpers, in the Netherlands, is a booking engine offering discounted rooms for those in need, in an effort joined by tech provider Mews.
A new reservations portal provides accommodation to healthcare workers at no cost in Lisbon and Porto, Portugal. It's called Rooms Against Covid, and GuestCentric Systems and HiJiffy created it.
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