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Author: rmeyer

What’s missing from pandemic-era travel? Plenty.

Since the pandemic was declared in March, safety precautions and protocols have become the stuff of everyday life — at home and on the road. For some, vacationing within the strictures of a public health crisis will be worth it; for others it won’t. We all want to get away, but it’s important to have..
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Is Tourism open or closed? Your fault or their failure?

A big case of he said, she said: Tourism Industry Wobbles Is Recovery Doable? The elected and appointed men and women working in Washington, DC, spend most of their time pointing fingers at each other, creating mayhem, dissention, confusion and ultimately disasters, wrecking (perhaps destroying) the world economy. One of the biggest losers in this..
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Hotel Management, COVID-19, Government/Politics and You

COVID-19 has become our worst nightmare or our brightest star, it all depends on the part of the economy you call home. If your revenue stream relies on success in the hotel, travel and tourism industries, you may be seriously disappointed. Beginning in January 2020, this virus changed segments of the economy that are unlikely to fully..
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Parsing Hotel ‘Hygiene Theater’ From Truly Effective Health Protocols

hotelAVE featured in Skift.com article discussing cleaning protocols.  Read the original article here! Essentially every hotel company launched a heightened health and cleaning protocol following the coronavirus pandemic to give guests the confidence to book a stay. But they aren’t always effective, according to one company aiming to be a third-party cleaning verification provider to the hotel..
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hotelAVE’s Summer Internship Program

hotelAVE’s summer internship program gives students hands on experience working directly with leadership in the hospitality management industry. This year, the program looked a little different as we adjusted for a remote setting.  Our interns wrapped up last week and here is what they had to say about their summer experience. Fiona Rath What school..
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Labor Forecasting Post-COVID 19 – Why Using “Old” Productivity Metrics and Job Classifications Doesn’t Work

As hotels gear up to reopen, owners and operators will rely heavily on their property teams to produce operating forecasts to guide their bumpy ride back to stabilization. An important part of these forecasts will be the estimates of future labor needs required in a post-COVID-19 operating environment – both in terms of covering core..
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Labor Forecasting Post-COVID 19 – Why Using “Old” Productivity Metrics and Job Classifications Doesn’t Work

By:  Jordan Bell, VP, PostScript Hospitality, hotelAVE’s Operational Efficiency division As hotels gear up to reopen, owners and operators will rely heavily on their property teams to produce operating forecasts to guide their bumpy ride back to stabilization. An important part of these forecasts will be the estimates of future labor needs required in a..
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What worries owners, Operators about group business

Hotel owners and operators continue to reassess their business models as the industry continues to reel from COVID-19. During a webinar titled “Emerging strong: Shaping the future of travel and hospitality” presented by Dixon Hughes Goodman, executives discussed their outlook on corporate travel demand, their pivots in development strategy and their theories for how the..
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