Articles tagged “restaurants”

Hotels

Hotels Make Inroads Into Boosting Diversity Through Their Restaurants

Many U.S. hotels have struggled to hire and retain non-white leaders post-pandemic. So some hotels are enhancing the ranks of who leads the line in the kitchen as one of a few ways to reverse the trend.

Carley Thornell | 2 months ago

Hotels Make Inroads Into Boosting Diversity Through Their Restaurants

Online Travel

Tripadvisor Execs Suggest Viator and Hotel Auction Will Be Key to New Strategy

The most important thing about Tripadvisor's exercise in formulating a new strategy will be how it reconfigures priorities. Answers to that question won't be divulged until 2023.

Dennis Schaal | 4 months ago

Tripadvisor Execs Suggest Viator and Hotel Auction Will Be Key to New Strategy

News Blog

UK Hotel Software Operator Guestline Acquires Newbridge to Expand Into Restaurants

A UK-based hotel operations software platform is expanding offerings for restaurants through an acquisition.  Guestline announced Tuesday that it has acquired UK-based Newbridge Software, a company that offers an electronic point of sale (ePOS) platform for bars and restaurants. Newbridge will operate as a division of the Guestline Group. Financial terms of the deal were…

Justin Dawes | 5 months ago

News Blog

Tripadvisor Begins Letting U.S. and Canadian Hotels and Restaurants Self-Identify as Woman- Or Black-Owned and More

Tripadvisor began letting some hotels in the U.S. and Canada self-identify in their business listings if they are woman-owned, Black-owned, or Asian-owned, for example. Other categories include Disability-owned, Hispanic/Latinx-owned, Indigenous-owned, LGBTQIA+-owned, and Veteran-owned. Tripadvisor doesn't verify whether indeed the business is at least 51 percent owned — which is the criteria — by that group.…

Dennis Schaal | 6 months ago

Hotels

The Biggest Innovators in Travel and Hospitality: Summer Edition

The distance between very good and superb is actually quite far and it requires motivated teams, attention to detail, and above all creativity to break out of commodity service delivery. Here are a few brands, ideas, and services that deserve a tip of the hat.

Colin Nagy | 8 months ago

The Biggest Innovators in Travel and Hospitality: Summer Edition

News Blog

Booking Holdings Takes Restaurant Competition to Asia-Pacific With Inline Investment

Booking Holdings' OpenTable dining reservations platform, which is strongest in the U.S., and Inline Group, with strength in Asia-Pacific, have entered into a strategic partnership where their customers will be able to reserve tables in the establishments of their respective restaurant partners. In tandem with the strategic partnership, Booking Holdings made an investment in Inline…

Dennis Schaal | 9 months ago

News Blog

Spain to Ease Visa Rules to Find Workers to Clean Hotel Rooms

Spain's economy was among the worst hit in Europe during the pandemic, and now the government plans to make it easier for foreigners to obtain work visas so they can fill tourism-related jobs, including cleaning hotel rooms and waiting on tables in restaurants. Waiter Yamilca from Cuba attends tourists in a terrace of an almost…

Dennis Schaal | 10 months ago

Tourism

Tourists Ditch Shopping Sprees for Big Nights Out Since Pandemic

Bars, nightclubs, theme parks and museums will be the winners this summer. The "experience economy" is back.

Mary Ann Ha and Matthew Parsons, Skift | 10 months ago

Tourists Ditch Shopping Sprees for Big Nights Out Since Pandemic

Online Travel

Vacasa CEO Reengages a Supply Strategy He Used at OpenTable

Does Vacasa’s technology and scale really give it a defensible position in North America? Moats are so overrated.

Dennis Schaal | 12 months ago

Vacasa CEO Reengages a Supply Strategy He Used at OpenTable

Travel Agents

Travel Agents Relegated to Using OpenTable for Group Bookings

Although some travel companies have succeeded in finding suitable restaurants for clients via OpenTable, the fact they've had to resort to the platform is a sign of how difficult planning travel has become during the pandemic.

Rashaad Jorden | 1 year ago

Travel Agents Relegated to Using OpenTable for Group Bookings