Articles tagged “choice hotels”

Travel Technology

Amazon’s New AI Tools for Travel: How Delta, IHG, and Others Are Using AWS

It is becoming more clear that streamlined customer service is one of the biggest immediate opportunities for generative AI in the travel industry.

Justin Dawes | 1 week ago

Amazon’s New AI Tools for Travel: How Delta, IHG, and Others Are Using AWS

Hotels

Choice Pushes Ahead in Wyndham Takeover Bid

Today's podcast looks at travel brands leaving Twitter, Choice’s latest Wyndham move, and questions about tourism in the Middle East.

Rashaad Jorden | 1 week ago

Choice Pushes Ahead in Wyndham Takeover Bid

Daily Lodging Report

Choice Hotels’ Latest Step in Its Quest to Acquire Wyndham

Choice Hotels International is preparing to nominate directors to the board of rival Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, seeking to break a stalemate in an $8 billion takeover battle.

1 week ago

Hotels

Choice Hotels to Nominate Directors to Wyndham Board, Says Reuters

Choice Hotels has made yet another, more assertive move in its hostile takeover bid of rival Wyndham. It looks like shareholders will be voting on a potential merger when they consider board elections in May.

Sean O'Neill | 1 week ago

Choice Hotels to Nominate Directors to Wyndham Board, Says Reuters

Daily Lodging Report

Choice Hotels Lays off Corporate Staff

Choice Hotels International is laying off 85 workers at its headquarters over the next two months.

2 weeks ago

Short-Term Rentals

Choice Hotels on Extended Stay Versus Short-Term Rentals: Interview

Choice Hotels doesn't consider private equity entrants as competition, but as potential collaborators.

Srividya Kalyanaraman | 2 weeks ago

Choice Hotels on Extended Stay Versus Short-Term Rentals: Interview

Short-Term Rentals

Choice Hotels Ships Kitchens to Hotel Rooms

Did you know that Choice Hotels ships a kitchen in a box to transform your plain Jane hotel room into an extended stay unit?

Srividya Kalyanaraman | 2 weeks ago

Hotels

Wyndham Says ‘No’ to Choice, Again

Today's podcast discusses pilot mental health, Wyndham's Choice rejection, and Trip.com’s strong earnings.

Rashaad Jorden | 2 weeks ago

Wyndham Says ‘No’ to Choice, Again

Daily Lodging Report

Wyndham Wants No Part of Choice’s Hostile Takeover Bid

Short of taking out a billboard or skywriting, we have no idea how much more Wyndham Hotels & Resorts can do to tell Choice Hotels to go away on its bid.

2 weeks ago

Hotels

Wyndham Says Choice’s Latest Offer Is a ‘Step Backwards’

Wyndham is playing very hard to get. And unless lovestruck Choice is equipped to sweeten its offer, it may view this target forever as the one who got away.

Dennis Schaal | 2 weeks ago

Wyndham Says Choice’s Latest Offer Is a ‘Step Backwards’