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Marriott 7000th hotel reflects the “tremendous opportunity in Asia”
Post Date : 11 Apr 2019 Takeaways : A BIG Milestone indeed for a company that began as a nine-stool root beer stand in 1927 and didn’t even open its first hotel until decades later. On track to open 1,700 additional hotels by the end of 2021 Signed pipeline at the end of 2018 totalled a combined […]
Google Reviews is crushing TripAdvisor
Post Date : 11 Apr 2019 Takeaways : Facebook saw 51% drop in reviews as they shifted from reviews to Recommendations. TripAdvisor has been losing market share(since 2015) and saw 21% decrease in 2018 Hoteliers have increased their Response rate across the board My Guess : #GOOGLE is likely to dominate the Reviews space for years to come. […]
HICSA 2019: How to Master Your Future in a Fast Changing World
Takeaways [ Dated 5 Apr 2019 ] : The Three Phases of Hospitality : 1960 – 2000 Simple Model & Mass Marketing helped [Lasted 40 Years] 2000 – 2015 Client Minded brands like Booking.com, TripAdvisor & KAYAK came in… Customers like their offerings…resulted in Major Disruption [Lasted 15 Years] 2015 – By now, the OYO’s, […]
Airbnb confirms stake in India’s OYO, sources say it invested $150M-$200M
Takeaways : [ Article dated 1 – Apr – 2019 ] OYO now valued around $5 billion. The company has now raised more than $1.5 billion from investors. Airbnb, with its #HotelTonight acquisition, has shown it wants to be a booking destination across different types of verticals. OYO is also gunning for Southeast Asia, where […]
Meet the Kenyan teacher who won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize in Dubai
The Takeaways : Peter Tabichi, a maths and physics teacher from Kenya, gives 80 per cent of his salary to the poor. After the win, Tabichi declared: “Teachers matter”. The $1 million (Dh3.67 million) award is the largest prize of its kind and is awarded annually to an exceptional teacher who has made an outstanding contribution […]
McDonald’s Bites on BIG DATA with $300 Million Acquisition
Takeaway : Serving 68 million customers “EveryDay”/ a $300 million acquisition/ In 2018 alone McD tallied nearly $6 billion of net income, and ended the year with a free cash flow of $4.2 billion/ The Technology is expected to be implemented in 1,000 locations within the next three months, eventually rolling out to the company’s 14,000 […]
