The Argentine entrepreneur has signed a partnership with international hospitality conglomerate Accor to grow his brand to around a dozen locations worldwide, including Dubai where he's currently planning his largest and most ambitious luxury development.
Even as the COVID-19 crisis crippled the global hospitality industry, Rixos Hotels had some of its properties busy and running throughout the outbreak, despite travel restrictions and country-wide lockdowns.
French hospitality giant Accor entered a new partnership with Ennismore, an innovative, independent operator, in order to form the world's leading lifestyle entity.
The Sofitel Dubai Downtown General Manager on how women can make it in a male-dominated industry, Accor's RiiSE initiative and leading through tough times.
If we go by the principle that one's actions today are a signifier of things to come, then Accor seems to be on the right track for a world after the coronavirus pandemic, given what Willis says the company has been doing through the course of this crisis.
"We've been heavily impacted over the last six months, but now is the time to look forward and take a positive position on what that future looks like."
Launched in 2016 by Gregor Amon and Kevin Czok, Hotel Data Cloud is a centralized global database for descriptive hotel content that disseminates hotels' information and pictures across all major travel websites, travel agent databases, and points of sale.
In an industry where fierce competition is the norm and customer comfort, pleasure, and contentment are key, it is imperative to invest in customer services at the highest of levels, presuming that success is your ultimate goal.
With General Manager Vipin Khattar saying that more than half of Hyatt Regency Dubai Creek Heights' business is generated from a business travel-related guest, it's pretty safe to say that this hotel knows a thing or two about catering to this particular kind of guest.
Amruda Nair, Joint Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Aiana Hotels & Resorts talks about her new enterprise, which is a joint venture with H.E. Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani, one of Qatar's leading entrepreneurs.
"We are primarily a business hotel so most of our efforts in our strategy is targeted towards the business client," explains Vincent Hoogewijs adding that 70% of the Four Seasons Amman's guest roster are visiting the Kingdom for work.
Qatar's hospitality sector is tilted towards serving the upper end of the market– more than half of the new hotels being planned over the next five years will be five star properties.
Constellation Hotels, a part of the Qatar Investment Authority, has purchased a 64% stake in the Maybourne Hotel Group that owns Claridge's, The Berkley, and The Connaught.
Swiss entrepreneur Remo Stoffel has teamed up with U.S.-based architectural and design practice Morphosis to build the 7132 Tower, a project designed to overtake the title of the world's tallest hotel.
The General Manager Caroline-Jane Houston of The Address Downtown Dubai delves on what makes the hotel great, and how they ensure the best for business travelers and leisure guests alike.
The Managing Director of the now-globally known EMKE LuLu Group didn't have a lot of infrastructure to work with when he set out to begin doing business in Abu Dhabi.