ILC has built an impressive reputation with their creatively executed events that bring together the best minds in hospitality Mews, a hospitality cloud, announced the appointment of its founder Richard Valtr to the ILC Advisory Board. As one of the most innovative and thought-provoking independent hotel communities in the world, Independent Lodging Congress is a […]
As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), German airports recorded around 155.2 million passengers in 2022. This represented an increase of 111.0% compared to 2021, which was more heavily impacted by the Corona pandemic. However, passenger traffic was still far from the pre-crisis level of 2019, when the main airports recorded an all-time high […]
Saudia, the Saudi Arabia national airline, launches “Your Ticket Your Visa” campaign. Its aim is to facilitate access to Saudi Arabia for travelers. The campaign includes a digital integration system that links transit visas to airline tickets. Saudia in collaboration with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Interior and Hajj and Umrah is offering a new […]
Travel apps have a firm place in the tourism market. Which apps are the most popular among globetrotters today? A travel world without travel apps? Hardly imaginable. They always go with you – just like your suitcase, toiletry bag, and credit card. Since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, these electronic helpers have become […]
Chinese citizens have resumed travel intensively during the Lunar New Year according to Fliggy, Alibaba Group’s online travel platform, which claims that long-haul travel bookings in China increased fivefold on the platform this holiday period with Thailand and Maldives being some of the most popular destinations for Chinese New Year Vacations. After three years without […]
How do industry experts from the fields of hospitality, tourism, futurology, urban and project development assess the likely developments in the hotel real estate market in 2023? The answers are provided by an expert survey conducted by mrp hotels. Last year, the global hotel industry was able to recover somewhat from the Corona crisis. Now […]
Today we are invaded by KPIs, ratios and data that show the hotel’s performance, revealing our strategies. They are indispensable to be able to adjust optimization, but it was not always like that. In the early days of Revenue Management at the beginning of the 21st century, we focused on obtaining any data that could […]
Last year, Mexico received 20.6 million international tourists by air, 46.3% more than in 2021 and 8.2% more than before the pandemic. Cancun airport accounted for 46% of arrivals. In 2022, more than six out of every ten tourists who visited Mexico by air came from the United States. In total, the market brought 13 […]
After the Lunar New Year (Tet) vacations, many localities reported impressive figures in terms of visitor numbers and tourism revenues. Vietnamese tourism has exploded this January, auguring a prolific year for the sector. In the first five days of the Year of the Cat 2023, Ho Chi Minh City achieved about 6.3 trillion VND (over […]
Last year, Spain received a total of 71.6 million tourists from foreign countries, which is more than double the figure of the previous year (129.5%) which was greatly affected by the pandemic, according to data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) released last week. The expenditure made by these visitors reached EUR 87,061 million, with […]