Marriott and Curator Hotel’s Insider Tips on Hosting Blended Travelers
Skift Take
The viewpoints from a major hotel chain and independent specialist reinforce the idea that accommodating remote workers is going to be challenging.
Skift unveiled the 2023 edition of its annual Megatrends this week and in the mix, as you’d expect, is the phenomenon of the blended traveler.
Not to be confused with the pre-pandemic “bleisure” traveler, this 2.0 version is more elusive, because they have new needs that hoteliers are still figuring out.
Fortunately during the megatrends reveal in New York, experts joined Skift editors live on stage to dig deeper. They included leaders from Marriott International and Curator Hotel & Resorts.
“Megatrends 2023 are all about how we are traveling differently, so the question for the panel is: how will hotels respond in their design and innovation,” asked Sean O'Neill, Skift’s senior hospitality editor.
Always OnFor Jennifer Barnwell, president of Curator Hotel & Resort Collection, the focus is on making everything available — because you never know who wants what, and when.
“We’re seeing business travel is
