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In Skift’s leading travel stories today, we covered Marriott’s arrival in Sandals’ complete sandbox, travel supervisor fears over debt consolidation, and a startup deal on hotel automation.
Dennis Schaal, Skift
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Sandals Resorts Isn’t Scared of Marriott Entering the All-Inclusive Resort Sector: Even if Sandals Resorts isn’t stressed over significant hotel brands like Marriott getting in the all-encompassing space, more hospitality giants are likely to swoop in and start searching the marketplace for franchise offers. There is too much unbranded supply to neglect.
Travel Supervisor Jitters Over Wave of Corporate Agency Consolidation: This year started with a bang for mergers and acquisitions, so naturally there’ll be concerns about whether they end up suppressing competitors.
Startup Backed by Former Priceline and Booking CEO Strikes Deal to Boost Hotel Automation: Operto is merely one start-up in a sea of hospitality tech vendors. But it stands apart for having Darren Huston, the former leading employer of the world’s largest online travel corporation, as its executive chairperson and key financier.
New Sobering UNWTO Data Suggests Full Tourism Recovery Won’t Arrive Up Until 2024: It’s a plain update from the United Nations’ tourism arm on the forecasted postponed return of global tourist– however it’s also as much as federal governments in wealthier nations to turn that tide and speed up healing through international vaccine equity.
What’s Failing Between Tripadvisor and Trip.com Group?: Tripadvisor and Trip.com Group maintain that their strategic collaboration is as strong as ever although the Chinese company just sold 20 percent of the shares it owns in Tripadvisor and is most likely to sell a lot more this year. Rhetoric aside, you can’t spin away that fact.
Why Every Airline company Needs To Stress Over the Political Hijacking of Industrial Flight: The diversion of a Ryanair flight to Belarus a week ago to detain an outspoken critic and journalist reveals us that air traffic control service may be progressively vulnerable to the politics of autocracies. That must send a chill through airline C-suites with the industry requiring as couple of disturbances as possible to chart its healing.
What a Top Labor Leader for Travel Gained From the Pandemic: The pandemic has actually taken a toll on the frontline employees at the Transport Workers Union, however action and empathy go a long method. Industry companies need to remember and make changes as their frontline workers return.
Why Japan’s Getaway Leasings Are Hiring Tech-Savvy Management Companies: It’s a U.S. bias to assume that the answer to every hotel or trip rental problem is to have actually a nationally branded management company take control of operations. But in Japan and in other places, many owners of travel lodging prefer an unbranded, behind-the-scenes management partner.
Speed of U.S. Hotel Advancement Is Being Threatened by International Shipping Traffic jams: The unexpected increase in consumer costs throughout the pandemic stimulated a competitors for goods and shipping containers amongst all industries. That’s a long-lasting problem for hotels, particularly with a predicted increase in restorations around the corner that will require much more deliveries from overseas.
The Economic Dark Side of the Global Remote Work Motion: A brand-new study from the USC Marshall School of Service is most likely not what many people want to hear, specifically those travel and hospitality companies investing for permanent modification.