Every One of IHG’s Hotel Brands, Explained
IHG has assembled a hospitality collection with some of the most wide-ranging and eclectic brands in the world. Here's what you need to know about every one of them.
Future of Lodging
As the lines continue to blur between hotels and short-term rentals, Skift is focused on the technology and the consumer behaviors that are driving this. Follow our coverage across the wide world of lodging, from traditional hotels and motels to urban short-term rentals and traditional vacation rentals.
Amadeus to Use Marriott and IHG Deals as Hotel Tech Springboard
Say what you will about Amadeus, it undeniably dreams big, audacious dreams. At a time when many institutions pursue small solutions for trivial problems, the travel tech titan has big hopes for reshaping how hotels operate and sell their themselves online.
Weaker Short-Term Rental Players Face Mounting Pressures
Softness in occupancy rates, onerous long-term leases, and investor demands for profitability have contributed to a greater strain on the weaker companies in the short-term rental sector.
Hotels Test Custom Room Rates That Appeal to Guest Tastes
Hotels have talked about attribute-based selling for years. Yet a new study gives more support to the concept, where a traveler chooses perks, such as a view from a high floor, to get a bundled price upfront.
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The Great Merging in the Hotel and Rental Tech Sectors 2022
Lines between hotels, short-term rentals and other accommodation types are blurring, but we see little merging in the business-to-business tech spaces that support these sectors. This will change, but there are some major barriers to overcome first.
Hospitality Tech Left Out of Lodging Convergence: New Skift Research
Lines between hotels, short-term rentals and other accommodation types are blurring, but we see little merging in the business-to-business tech spaces that support these sectors. This will change, but there are some major barriers to overcome first.
Expedia and Marriott Claim Progress on Proliferation of Rogue Hotel Rates
Rogue wholesale rates on metasearch sites are the gifts that keep on giving — for travelers and the metasearch sites. Expedia and Marriott seem to be making some progress on the issue.
Hotels Expand Their Wellness Products
Good morning from Skift. It's Wednesday, July 6 in New York City. Here's what you need to know about the business of travel today.
The Women Who Shaped Short-Term Rental History
The men got most of the headlines and speaking invitations, but women entrepreneurs helped shape the short-term rental industry from its earliest days.
Accor’s Planned Leadership Re-Org May Invite Speculation About Eventual Asset Sale
Accor's board said on Tuesday the company wants to simplify its organizational structure to create two business units. The move, which raises questions about possible divestitures, has been sent to…