The hotel sector largely decamped to Paris in early August, after Bloomberg dubbed it Summer Davos and turned it into a business expense. This presumably means the appearance of Snoop Dogg at the next Actual Davos, an event we await with slavering delight. But between the Snoop spotting and working out how tall you were […]
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It’s been a tricky few moments of late for everyone’s much-feared/much-used sharing platform – and its peers – with Barcelona banning short-term rentals and house swapping back like it’s the 1970s. In Barcelona, the city has played the classic ‘licence then refuse the licence’ trick which owners of big dogs with large teeth are also
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No, not that big house, the hotel sector is remarkably law abiding compared to other asset classes. Or it’s better at getting away with it. This particular big house came up at the recent Propel Hospitality Excellence in Pub & Bar Retailing Conference, which is a step out of the old routine for us, and
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Airbnb’s latest results featured founder & CEO Brian Chesky commenting that the group had been studying Amazon and liked the look of it. Chesky is following a long tradition of companies liking the look of Amazon and thinking that they might fancy a bit of that action. Expedia’s former CEO, Mark Okerstrom (the one who
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According to the internet, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, chief minister to Louis XIV, said that the “the art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing”. Whether or not he said this, Colbert certainly advised the Sun King on being more efficient
At Airbnb’s Q3 results, CEO & founder Brian Chesky was asked about plans to grow the platform. He said: “If we just keep focusing on reliability, making sure that when you book, you know what you’re going to get and if this is ever a problem, you have an excellent customer service that is nearly
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Last week Stephanie Ricca wrote a very interesting piece about branded residences, following a panel discussion at the International Society of Hospitality Consultants annual conference. We were very interested on account of it being very interesting. In it, Ricca pointed to the rise of the stand-alone model of branded hotel residences. Residences, without the hotel.
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The endless round of hotels vs Airbnb continued this week, with consumer group Which? reporting that a hotel room may very well come in cheaper than a one-bedroom flat on Airbnb. In fact, their study proved just that, with a one-night stay in a hotel at an average of £101, compared with £120 across Airbnb
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It’s possible that this week many of you are reconsidering your life choices. Would it really have been so bad if you’d stuck at your holiday job in the vet’s office? Bad pay/bad scarring yes, but regular hours and puppies. September can do that to a person, no matter how many mince pies you can
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Shortly before the pandemic forced our passports into storage, we were feeling bad about travel. Flight shaming, overtourism, it was all about how we shouldn’t be roaming around, no matter how much Instagram wanted yet another photo of the Bridge of Sighs. This was forgotten with the return to travel, with thoughts of walkable streets
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