IHG’s Take on Amazon and 11 Other Hospitality Trends This Week
Photo Credit: IHG's CEO Keith Barr says Amazon is more a threat to online travel agencies than hotels. InterContinental Hotels Group
Skift Take
This week in hospitality, we analyzed second-quarter earnings from IHG and Marriott among others, including an exploration of Amazon's potential impact on hotels.
Hotel News Weekly Roundup
Throughout the week we post dozens of original stories, connecting the dots across the travel industry, and every weekend we sum it all up. This weekend roundup examines hotels. For all of our weekend roundups, go here.
>>IHG CEO Keith Barr’s take on how we’ll be using technology now and in the future is both contrarian and perhaps more pragmatic than the views of some of his travel industry peers: IHG CEO: Amazon Is a Threat to Online Travel Agencies, Not Hotels
>>Can Marriott hold onto hotel owners and SPG elites? That was the underlying question on many analysts' minds during Marriott's second-quarter earnings call. After all, the bigger you are, the harder you have to fall, right? But the world's largest hotel company, not surprisingly, doesn't see things that way: Marriott Still Working Through Starwood Integration Two Years After Deal
