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Articles tagged “restaurants”

Online Travel

Tripadvisor CEO’s New Strategy Comes Into Focus

In football or soccer — pick your sport/analogy — sometimes it takes a new coach to get momentum. Under its new CEO, Tripadvisor is making significant changes to its core products.

Tripadvisor CEO’s New Strategy Comes Into Focus

Business Travel

American Express Sees Flights Propping Up Record Spending Volume On Cards

Credit card members are flying and eating out like never before, driven by Millennial and Gen Z's propensity to travel. Hotels are lagging airlines in terms of growth.

American Express Sees Flights Propping Up Record Spending Volume On Cards

Online Travel

Kayak Co-Founder Paul English Is Launching New App as an Alternative to ‘Garbage’ Restaurant/Hotel Reviews

The advent of user reviews in travel was a disruptive and positive force, and they in turn may indeed get upended or greatly modified as new technologies take hold.

Kayak Co-Founder Paul English Is Launching New App as an Alternative to ‘Garbage’ Restaurant/Hotel Reviews

Hotels

Hotels Make Inroads Into Boosting Diversity Through Their Restaurants

Many U.S. hotels have struggled to hire and retain non-white leaders post-pandemic. So some hotels are enhancing the ranks of who leads the line in the kitchen as one of a few ways to reverse the trend.

Hotels Make Inroads Into Boosting Diversity Through Their Restaurants

Online Travel

Tripadvisor Execs Suggest Viator and Hotel Auction Will Be Key to New Strategy

The most important thing about Tripadvisor's exercise in formulating a new strategy will be how it reconfigures priorities. Answers to that question won't be divulged until 2023.

Tripadvisor Execs Suggest Viator and Hotel Auction Will Be Key to New Strategy

News Blog

UK Hotel Software Operator Guestline Acquires Newbridge to Expand Into Restaurants

A UK-based hotel operations software platform is expanding offerings for restaurants through an acquisition.  Guestline announced Tuesday that it has acquired UK-based Newbridge Software, a company that offers an electronic point of sale (ePOS) platform for bars and restaurants. Newbridge will operate as a division of the Guestline Group. Financial terms of the deal were…

News Blog

Tripadvisor Begins Letting U.S. and Canadian Hotels and Restaurants Self-Identify as Woman- Or Black-Owned and More

Tripadvisor began letting some hotels in the U.S. and Canada self-identify in their business listings if they are woman-owned, Black-owned, or Asian-owned, for example. Other categories include Disability-owned, Hispanic/Latinx-owned, Indigenous-owned, LGBTQIA+-owned, and Veteran-owned. Tripadvisor doesn't verify whether indeed the business is at least 51 percent owned — which is the criteria — by that group.…

Hotels

The Biggest Innovators in Travel and Hospitality: Summer Edition

The distance between very good and superb is actually quite far and it requires motivated teams, attention to detail, and above all creativity to break out of commodity service delivery. Here are a few brands, ideas, and services that deserve a tip of the hat.

The Biggest Innovators in Travel and Hospitality: Summer Edition

News Blog

Booking Holdings Takes Restaurant Competition to Asia-Pacific With Inline Investment

Booking Holdings' OpenTable dining reservations platform, which is strongest in the U.S., and Inline Group, with strength in Asia-Pacific, have entered into a strategic partnership where their customers will be able to reserve tables in the establishments of their respective restaurant partners. In tandem with the strategic partnership, Booking Holdings made an investment in Inline…

News Blog

Spain to Ease Visa Rules to Find Workers to Clean Hotel Rooms

Spain's economy was among the worst hit in Europe during the pandemic, and now the government plans to make it easier for foreigners to obtain work visas so they can fill tourism-related jobs, including cleaning hotel rooms and waiting on tables in restaurants. Waiter Yamilca from Cuba attends tourists in a terrace of an almost…