Articles tagged “hyatt”

Hyatt is taking the concepts of wellness and "adjacent spaces" very, very seriously.

So much for taking a summer vacation. This year, the hotel industry was busy making major moves and investments, as well as launching new brands, properties, and policies.

Any potential crisis has now been definitively averted, at least until this contract expires.

As hotels tighten up their revenue management practices, expect more of these cancellation policy changes to take place in the near future.

In some cases, the hotel-online travel agency relationship is still a tense situation, but for most big hotel companies, it's still business as usual.

InterContinental's new CEO Keith Barr seems happy — for now — to carry on with the work done by his predecessor. While rivals have explored other areas, IHG keeps doing the same thing, although it is developing a new midscale brand. Only time will tell which strategy is right.

Expect Hyatt to delve even deeper into more of those adjacent spaces going forward.

We like to think of this as Hyatt's payback for AccorHotels stealing away onefinestay last year.

The Hyatt-Expedia crisis seems to be averted, for now.

We are not expecting Armageddon as the Expedia-Hyatt talks come down to the wire. Hyatt wants a fair deal, and Expedia stands to gain if it can retain the broadest depth of hotel content possible. The devil will be in the details but we expect champagne glasses to be raised this week.