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hotelAVE featured in Bloomberg: The Post-Pandemic Hotel Looks a Lot Like a Cruise Ship

Incessant pleas for hand-washing, pre-reserved dining times, all-inclusive pricing: Welcome to the contact-less, germ-less hotel stay. If you’ve ever sailed aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise, a song lurks deep within your subconscious: a kiddie-style earworm about washing your hands that loops endlessly in the buffet entrance and on in-room TVs. “Wash your hands, like 50 times a day,” the tune..

hotelAVE cited by Skift.com

The article, titled “Hotels Could Face $9 Billion in New Costs to Stay Squeaky Clean,” features hotelAVE’s estimates on the collective cost new cleaning protocols could cost the hotel industry annually. The article notes that the hotelAVE study “estimates a bulk of added cleaning costs will come from the higher frequency of cleaning public spaces,..

Covid-19 Cleanliness and Social Distancing Protocols Could Cost Hotel Industry $9 Billion Annually

As hoteliers begin to welcome travelers back, the extra sanitation steps and cleanliness standards necessary to keep guests and employees safe will be more costly than owners and operators anticipate. Maintaining impeccable cleanliness, executing quality food and beverage and delivering hospitable guest experiences have always been bedrock operating principles that hotel managers must now reinvent..

hotelAVE on The Unconstrained Conversations Podcast

  • May 21, 2020
  • 959 views
hotelAVE’s Founder and CEO, Michelle Russo, spoke with IDeaS’ “chief evangelist” Klaus Kohlmayr on The Unconstrained Conversations podcast. “This episode dives into the strains COVID-19 has put on hotel finances and the difficulty of balancing profit and safety as the hospitality industry slowly reopens. Michelle also shares her thoughts on the future of travel and..
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Michelle Russo on HospitalityDesign’s Webinar: Hospitality on Edge

  • April 21, 2020
  • 1,359 views
April 3 2020 – Michelle Russo joined a panel of industry experts to discuss to discuss COVID-19 and its impact on the hospitality industry. View the entire webinar HERE. Listener Follow Up Questions: Do you foresee consolidation/acquisition activity in the industry during this challenging climate? Alan Benjamin: Of course, in all times of disruption there..

Special Edition COVID-19 Dashboard

hotelAVE announces the release of our Special Edition COVID-19 Dashboard. Stay up to date on current hospitality data and the impact the virus is having on our industry, all in one place, view for yourself today. Access the hotelAVE Hospitality Dashboard

  • April 2, 2020
  • 1,457 views
April 2, 2020 – In Episode 3, David Israel joins host of Wake Up Call, Sean Cohen, and President of Alice, Alex Shashou, to discuss how the hotel industry could operate more cost effectively, efficiently and with far fewer people. Link to Episode HERE.

The Daily Lodging Report

The Daily Lodging Report for 3/22/20 The volatility continued on Friday as the DJIA fell 914 points, Nasdaq was down 271, the S&P 500 fell 105 points and the 10 year treasury yield fell below 1% again, down .18 to 0.94%.   Lodging stocks were mostly higher but the volatility has not been seen since the..