MGM Resorts’ New Exec Hire and 6 Other Hospitality Trends This Week


Skift Take

This week in hospitality, MGM recruits a new commercial and growth executive from Silicon Valley, Japan is about to get a bunch of low-cost hotels, and George Clooney’s current boycott points to the Hollywood bubble he lives in.

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.
MGM Resorts’ New Exec Hire Signals a Transformation to an Experience Platform: It likely won’t be the only, or the last, hospitality company to do the same. Oyo to Flood Japan With Budget Hotels in New Deal With SoftBank: Japan is a destination that is never ever described as affordable, but Oyo, with its budget hotel concept, could be t