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Last month’s Arabian Hotel Investment Conference provided insights to investor sentiment, says Vision Hospitality Asset Management regional director Middle East and Asia Nigel Teasdale.
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Viability director Guy Wilkinson visits Tunisia and discovers a boutique hotel offering that juxtaposes history and hip - a phenomenon he argues the Gulf market is yet to embrace.
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The agent training seminar at Arabian Travel Market in May raised a number of important issues.
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Amid current debates on revenue management, investment opportunities, company re-engineering and streamlining services - issues mentioned repeatedly at last month's Arabian Hotel Investment Conference and Arabian Travel Market - it can be easy to neglect the most important focus of a hotel's business: the guest.
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I'm sure all of you are probably reeling from all the work this month - it's certainly been a busy few weeks for trade shows! Hopefully if you were at DEAL, AHIC, ATM or The Hotel Show, you've seen that there are still plenty of business opportunities in this region and that as an industry, we're perhaps better placed than many others to capitalise on those chances.
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It seems that the world's consumers are embracing a new kind of diet: an unhealthy one, as the credit crunch continues.
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Viability director Guy Wilkinson explains the factors owners must consider when selecting a hotel operator but says that ultimately, it all boils down to the chemistry of the partners.
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Back in the good old days, when operators were riding on the coat tails of economic boom and no one was worried about where their next customer was coming from, hiring quality staff was simply a matter of looking around at other companies and poaching their star performers.
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The lawsuit filed by Starwood against Hilton has certainly got the industry talking, says Louise Oakley.
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Many companies claim to engage and nurture their employees, but few truly understand the contribution their people can really make in brand promotion, says The Brand Union’s executive director of strategy and engagement, Michael Hughes.
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Pulitzer-prize winning American journalist Anna Quindlen once wrote: “A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.”
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I was chatting to a representative of a tourism authority whose country’s main inbound market was the Spanish.
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What do you think will happen to the cost of aviation travel in the Middle East in the coming year, will prices fall or remain stable?
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Tech guru Jitendra Jain explains why technology and marketing are a match made in heaven, as long as the right measures of both are employed.
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Hot on the heels of Earth Hour, Fairmont Dubai’s green guru, Alka Patel, provides some tips on energy-saving initiatives that will enlighten even the most environmentally-aware hoteliers.
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The credit crunch could bring the correction Dubai’s attractions sector requires, according to David Camp and Jessica Mello from Economic Research Associates.
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Despite the old adage that ‘all publicity is good publicity’, being the talk of the town is not always beneficial.
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Hotel PR and marketing communications expert Sandra J Schulze explains why establishing the Doha Chapter of the Hot Hoteliers network will help benefit Qatar’s entire hospitality sector.
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Industry commentator Guy Wilkinson explains why the functional should outweigh the aesthetic when designing a five-star hotel and says the earlier this is implemented, the better for hoteliers.
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I’m getting excited about Arabian Travel Market - and I'm not alone, says Jamie Knights.
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