Hotel News Now

STR's Jesper Palmqvist joins the HNN podcast to talk about varying degrees of performance across the Asia Pacific region, the impacts of sporting events from F1 in Singapore to the Australian Football League, and takeaways from recent headlines like Oyo's pending acquisition of G6 Hospitality and China's new stimulus package.

Preparing for hurricane season is a year-round job, and HVMG's Jamison Conrey joins the HNN podcast to talk about how his company works to best prepare properties and employees for storms.

In this episode, Pyramid Global Hospitality's Patrick Berwald talks about how creating value and quality experiences in food and beverage set hotels apart from the competition as well as Pyramid's Purple Mynt concepting program.

Cade Watanabe, president of Unite Here Local 5 in Hawaii and co-chair of a ongoing national campaign that lead to more than 10,000 hotel workers striking over Labor Day weekend joins the Hotel News Now podcast to discuss why hotel workers are walking off the job and why they believe providing workers with better pay and working conditions is vital to "save our industry."

In this episode of the summer demand series, Michael Darrow, general manager of the Squire Resort at the Grand Canyon, BW Signature Collection, talks about normalizing demand levels and how extra offerings entice guests seeking new experiences to stay longer. 

In this interview, Kampgrounds of America President and CEO Toby O'Rourke talks about the growing popularity of camping due in large part to the growing number of options available to travelers.

In this episode, STR's Jesper Palmqvist digs into the changing patterns of Chinese inbound and outbound travel.

Ashford Inc.'s Jeff Borman joins the Hotel News Now podcast to discuss his favorite current hotel industry trend -- the lack of volatility -- along with how he was inspired to work in the travel industry and start his own podcast explaining that industry, No Show.

Bashar Wali of This Assembly and Practice Hospitality joins the HNN podcast to talk about establishing real loyalty at hotels, which boils down to establishing real human-to-human connections.

HNN's Bryan Wroten speaks with CoStar's Emmy Hise and CoStar News' Tony Wilbert to discuss what they heard on the second day of the 2024 Hotel Data Conference and to share their overall takeaways.