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VSR Announces Partnership With MeetingPackage
AUBURN, California—VSR and MeetingPackage announced a new partnership and the launch of a connectivity integration that enables advanced voice communication capabilities to interface with the MeetingPackage Meetings & Events Central Reservations System (CRS). Through this integration, MeetingPackage will leverage VSR’s VAIA Conversational AI Assistant to allow guests, planners, and meeting professionals to engage directly with…
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CHTA Highlights the Biggest Takeaways from CHIEF 2025, Signaling a New Era for Caribbean Hospitality
Barbados — The Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA) today shared the leading insights emerging from the 2025 Caribbean Hospitality Industry Exchange Forum (CHIEF), which recently took place in Barbados. CHTA also announced that CHIEF 2026 will be held November 16–18, 2026, running concurrently with Taste of the Caribbean. The annual event brought together hotel…
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Skift Global Forum East 2025: 9 Takeaways for the Future of Travel
Source: skift The 2025 Skift Global Forum East brought together the region’s most influential travel leaders at a moment when the Middle East is quickly reshaping global tourism. This year’s conversations made one point clear: the global travel landscape is tilting toward the East as the Gulf accelerates tourism growth, expands air connectivity, and attracts…
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Encapsulating the Barefoot Luxury Trend at Casa Yuma in Puerto Escondido
One of the biggest trends in hospitality right now is one that’s hard to spot in an aggregated market intelligence report. All over the world, travelers are seeking out authentic hotels that are firmly rooted in their environs and have a vibe that’s unlike any other accommodation, using the entirety of the internet and social…
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The article in The Guardian on Saturday only partly interpreted what we talked about in a great 90 minute conversation with Eamonn Forde. Basically I was saying the genie is out of the bottle. AI is… | Dave Stewart | 90 comments
The article in The Guardian on Saturday only partly interpreted what we talked about in a great 90 minute conversation with Eamonn Forde. Basically I was saying the genie is out of the bottle. AI is here, not arriving, not looming; it’s woven into every corner of the creative world. There’s no spell, no law, no wish…
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Hospitality keeps talking about growth like it’s a mystery. It isn’t. Growth comes from systems. And nobody proved that louder than Conrad Hilton. Most people think Hilton won because he had hotels.… | Scott Eddy | 29 comments
Hospitality keeps talking about growth like it’s a mystery. It isn’t. Growth comes from systems. And nobody proved that louder than Conrad Hilton. Most people think Hilton won because he had hotels. Wrong. He won because he built a machine. He walked into a small Texas town in 1919 to buy a bank. The deal…
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Liquid Death VP Andy Pearson: « Strategy is Partially Killing the Industry » | LBBOnline
Liquid Death, the billion-dollar canned water brand known for its viral stunts and dark humour is challenging the foundations of the creative industry. Speaking to Emma Sexton on ‘The Future of In-House Creative Leadership’ podcast, Andy Pearson, VP of Creative at Liquid Death, argues that traditional strategic bloat is stifling creativity, declaring controversially that strategy…
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Overrating Strategy: The Power of Intuition in B2B Marketing | Joe Lazar posted on the topic | LinkedIn
I spend a lot of time on strategy. And honestly, I think strategy can be overrated. This article on Liquid Death’s marketing approach reminded me why. Strategy can get slow and overly intellectualized. It can, at its worst, stifle creativity. And in our B2B corner of the world, it can diminish something powerful and not…
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#smarttourism #digitaltransformation #dubai #dubaiairports | Felix Shpilman | 29 comments
Dubai just did something no other global city has managed to do. It fixed the hotel check-in experience at the system level, not the hotel level. Anyone who travels frequently knows how broken hotel check-in is. You arrive exhausted, your data already sits inside multiple travel systems, yet the hotel still has no idea who…
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#smarttourism #digitaltransformation #dubai #dubaiairports | Felix Shpilman | 29 comments
Dubai just did something no other global city has managed to do. It fixed the hotel check-in experience at the system level, not the hotel level. Anyone who travels frequently knows how broken hotel check-in is. You arrive exhausted, your data already sits inside multiple travel systems, yet the hotel still has no idea who…
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