Jour : 23 mai 2025
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New on the menu: Tuna Wellington and rabbit arancini
Senior Food & Beverage Editor Bret Thorn is senior food & beverage editor for Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality for Informa’s Restaurants and Food Group, with responsibility for spotting and reporting on food and beverage trends across the country for both publications as well as guiding overall F&B coverage. He is the host of…
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At the airport? 8 myths of airline retailing, plus aircraft shortages, and more
Grab the full report—Navigate the key trends inside New from McKinsey & Company This email contains information about McKinsey’s research, insights, services, or events. By opening our emails or clicking on links, you agree to our use of cookies and web tracking technology. For more information…
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Wyndham CEO Highlights Past Success During Downturns Amid Economic Uncertainty
Photo Credit: Wyndham Hotels & Resorts In recent months, economic uncertainty has impacted various businesses, including the hospitality industry. With tariffs specifically raising concerns, fears of a potential recession continue to swirl. However, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts had a record first quarter in which its global openings increased 13 percent year-over-year, and the company awarded…
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One of the most fascinating and yet hardly discussed dynamics in marketing… | Jon Ratcliffe
One of the most fascinating and yet hardly discussed dynamics in marketing today is how incredibly low video watch times are online. Social media based video (across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Youtube…) has become the largest communications channel in the world in terms of total watch time and yet, across nearly every major advertiser we speak to,…
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Booking.com “Important Notice: Termination of Partnership” Email Explained – What Travel Bloggers Need to Know – Kosupa Travel
If you’re a travel blogger or content creator who works with Booking.com, you might have recently received an email with the alarming subject line “Important Notice: Termination of Partnership” that made your heart skip a beat. I know mine did. After years of steady affiliate income from Booking.com—an essential revenue stream that has helped fund…
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🚨POWER MOVE: Google’s new agentic checkout isn’t just killing pages, it’s… | Marc Baumann | 49 comments
🚨POWER MOVE: Google’s new agentic checkout isn’t just killing pages, it’s killing entire business models. Google introduced « Shop with AI mode ». You can now shop and buy without ever visiting a retailers website. This isn’t about payments. It’s about who owns the customer. And Wall Street noticed: Shopify dropped 𝟱% within hours of the announcement.…
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Fish Food: Episode 644 – AI, and Inflection points in the creative industries
AI in the creative industry, Google I/O and AI everywhere, the difference between AI agents and Agentic AI, and a linear thinker, a design thinker and a systems thinker walk into a bar… This week’s provocation: Creative Risks, radical change – Hollywood’s transition to ‘talkies’ and AI-driven transformation AI has generated a real inflection point…
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36 | Stop chasing ubiquity
WeTransfer and the urgency of lower case b brands. Note: This is the third in a short series about the book I co-authored with WeTransfer co-founder Damian Bradfield on building a more soulful brand. Not a Playbook: The science Art of Building a Brand is available here, and — as of May 22 – on…
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Fwd: The Briefing: Altman’s Flawed io Analysis
Greetings! Is it animal, mineral or vegetable? OpenAI’s public declaration of its plan to roll out AI-specific hardware devices—as a result of its $6.5 billion purchase of Jony Ive’s startup, io—has sparked the predictable rush of people speculating on what the first such device will be. And we’re not just talking about journalists. Taiwan-based analyst…
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Kayak pivots from search to AI-driven travel assistant
The shift from browsing to delegating marks one of the most significant evolutions in digital travel since the rise of OTAs – one driven not by new interfaces, but by AI that reasons, reacts, and books May 23, 2025 As artificial intelligence reshapes industries, travel is entering a transformative era where agentic AI is set…