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Despite Strong Employment Month, the Hospitality Sector Still Has Work to Do
3 Key Points: When pandemic started hospitality sector cut jobs, now demand is increasing and businesses aren’t able to hire as quickly to meet demand. Hospitality sector needs to look within and reexamine how they can make a better workplace Employers need to find ways to make work-life balance better to help keep employees…
Challenges and Opportunities Faced By Airlines as Holiday Travel Nears
As the leaves start to change colors one would typically correlate that with the start of fall. As fall starts to begin that also means the holiday season is starting to begin which means holiday travel is set to take off yet again. Like other industries airlines are trying to recover from the COVID-19…
The 4 Biggest Questions Facing the Cruise Industry
In many ways, cruise ships were one of the first places where many of us saw the effects of COVID-19. Our understanding of the virus was in its infancy, but suddenly images of passengers stranded for weeks on these ships began to appear on the evening news. What began as an exciting adventure for…
What Is In Store for the Travel World This Fall?
Key Points: Despite the reopening of borders, the focus will still be on domestic travel. A big factor of the rebound in the travel industry was due to leisure travel but due to schools being open and employees returning to the office, leisure travel numbers are decreasing. Road trips are remaining popular despite the airline…
Adding Flexibility to an Archaic Real Estate Landscape
On this episode of Say Yes To Travel, Host Sarah Dandashy talked with Jason Fudin, Co-Founder and CEO of WhyHotel, a hospitality platform, and operator focusing on multifamily buildings. It operates pop-up hotels out of the vacancy of newly built luxury apartments during the initial lease-up process. They talked about Fudin’s career, his time…
The U.S. Eases Travel Bans. Will Travel Reach Sky High Levels?
Starting in November, the U.S. will be open to all visitors who are able to provide proof of vaccination. Prior to this foreign travelers would have to quarantine for 14 days before entering the U.S. The estimated cost of limiting foreign travel to the U.S. has cost the tourism and hospitality industries $198 million per…
Peloton Users are Loyal Fans. Can Hotels Turn This into a New Business Strategy?
Key Points: Travelers have made it a point to seek out hotels and accommodations that include a Peloton bike. Peloton acquired Precor for $420 million in December 2020 in order to bolster their presence in the commercial market. Peloton’s presence in hotels makes it likely that their competitors will seek to enter that space, as…
How the Short-Term Property Rental Market Is Regaining Control Over its Booking
The proliferation of hotel and short term rental booking websites have made property owners lives much easier on paper. But what is the downside of having your business rely on a third party booking site? Will the service ever have your best interest in mind? The host of Say Yes To Travel, Sarah Dandashy,…
Are Subscriptions for Hotel Discounts a Viable Business Model? It Doesn’t Look Like It
Only three months after officially launching the Tripadvisor Plus subscription program in the U.S., Tripadvisor will no longer offer immediate discounts and instead move towards giving cash-back after check-in. But why the sudden change? Sarah Dandashy, the host of Say Yes to Travel, weighs in on the roadblocks to the program’s success.
Are Higher Prices Behind the Dip in Air Travelers?
According to a survey by MMGY Global, a Kansas City-based travel and hospitality marketing firm, “luxury travelers” said they expected to take four trips over the next year. But Hilary Kennedy asked Sarah Dandashy, the host of Say Yes To Travel, for the rest of the traveling community, could the rise in airfare be…
To Commercialize, Voice Tech Must First Solve Its ‘Cocktail Party Problem’
Our voice technologies have not been engineered to confront the messiness of the real world or the cacophony of our actual lives. On average, men and women speak roughly 15,000 words per day. We call our friends and family, log into Zoom for meetings with our colleagues, discuss our days with our loved ones, or…
Ep 1049: Predictions For The Industry for 2021-2022
On this episode of Weaver: Beyond The Numbers Real Estate Edition Podcast, hosts Rob Nowak, Partner, Tax Services at Weaver and Howard Altshuler, Partner-in-Charge, Real Estate Services at Weaver, talked about their predictions for industry trends for the rest of 2021 and into 2022. “If I had my sunglasses, I’d be putting them on because…
Is the Private-Jet Travel Boom Here to Stay?
The travel habits and expectations for airline passengers have shifted over the last year and half, leading more affluent travelers to consider alternative options to commercial flights. The result has been a boom in private-jet travel, thanks in large part to an increased emphasis on social distancing. We posed the question to the founders of…
Is Private Aviation Lifting Off or on Cruise Control?
All eyes have been on the rebound of commercial aviation, but ever since travel opened back up in spring 2020, private aviation has been the market to lift off. And it makes sense, as commercial air travel keeps facing unexpected ups and downs in demand with the spread of the Delta variant. The TSA, for…
Can Domestic Travel Carry its Weight as International Travel Stays on Pause?
COVID’s Delta variant continues its spread, and in turn, U.S. borders remain closed to travelers from the EU and U.K., going on almost 550 days. In response to uncertainty around international travel, airlines are now putting a pause on London to New York flights and other classic international routes. Some are waiting until mid-September to…
Travel Tech Innovator Gives a Vision for Hospitality’s Future
Even as COVID’s Delta variant surges across the US, interstate tourism ebbs and flows between setting new highs and lows, with states like Florida seeing tourism numbers higher than pre-pandemic levels, while the TSA reports a 10-week low in travelers as the pandemic resurges in parts of the country. How is this remaining uncertainty in…
Does Hyatt’s Acquisition of Apple Leisure Group Signal a New Wave of Mergers?
Hyatt Hotels made a splash this week by announcing that it has agreed to buy resort operator Apple Leisure Group for $2.7 billion in cash. Sarah Dandashy, host of MarketScale’s Say Yes to Travel, weighs in about the state of the industry and what we can expect as 2021 marches on. In this soundbite, she…
Will Gen Z & Beyond Drive Crypto Acceptance for Travel?
Gen Z and the next generations are all digital natives. They have digital identities and transact in this way, so it only makes sense that they’ll adopt cryptocurrency. So, what does this look like in practice and in the realm of travel? Luke Kim, Head of Marketing at Dtravel, a blockchain technology home sharing…
What To Keep In Mind As Travel Ramps Back Up
One of the biggest disappointments of the COVID-19 Pandemic was the halt to travel. Planes grounded, trains stopped rolling, and automobiles were parked in the garage while the world stayed inside to slow down the spread of the deadly virus. Nearly a year-and-a-half later, travel is starting to pick up again, so what are…
Customized Travel with Local Flavor: Automation + the Human Touch
Travel is all about experience. Decades ago, consumers looked to travel professionals to build their dream itinerary. Then digitization occurred, and suddenly everyone was a travel guru. However, they didn’t have the local insights that would help them curate the ideal trip. From special activities to simply logistics, it’s hard to design travel without…
Is the Travel Business Model Overdo for an Update?
The state of the travel industry is still largely up in the air, with a new variant of COVID-19 making its way around the globe and supply chain shortages, labor challenges and more setting obstacles in the way of growth for airlines, hotels and more. But is the entire travel business model due for…
Leadership in the Hospitality Space and Importance of a Social Media Community
Driven by consumer desires for new experiences, innovative technologies and environmental impacts – travel is changing. Host Sarah Dandashy explores the technologies and logistics that power travel and the brands that build unforgettable experiences. With so much change in the hospitality industry, many stakeholders are seeking new ideas, inspiration, and solving challenges. Hotel owner, operator and…
Restarting Cruises Has Been a Game of ‘Operational Whack-a-Mole’
(Bloomberg) — David Hakimian, 58, an oncologist from the Chicago area, was looking forward to a week of lazy days on Caribbean beaches when he boarded Windstar’s 312-passenger, recently stretched-out Star Breeze—only to find he’d instead be spending a week almost entirely at sea. In Iceland, passengers on the Viking Sky consoled themselves with meals…
How Travel Marketing Needs to Change Post-Pandemic
Travel was altered significantly by the COVID-19 pandemic and, even with far-away locales opening their doors to travelers once again, the industry is going to have to adapt to cater to a new brand of consumer. But how? Marilee Kostadimas, CMP, DMCP, Founder & Creative Director of Spotlight Sojourns, shared some front-line insights about how…
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