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England Room Occupancy Survey

England Room Occupancy Survey 690 360 HotelREZ
Every month VisitEngland™ publishes the England Occupancy Survey (EOS), which uses a measure of bedroom occupancy across the serviced accommodation sector – from large hotels to small B&Bs and farmhouses – and across the country. In the latest figures for 2018, room occupancy in England has increased +1% in January (65%) whilst February remained unchanged at [...]read more
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Facebook targets the travel industry

Facebook targets the travel industry 690 360 HotelREZ
It was probably only a matter of time. Facebook has made its most decisive foray into the travel industry with the launch of its ‘City Guides’ feature on its mobile app, enabling its users to contact and make reservations in a number of hotels and restaurants in a given city. Rather than doing anything particularly revolutionary, [...]read more

Outlook for 2017: Travel in Times of Global Uncertainty

Outlook for 2017: Travel in Times of Global Uncertainty 2047 1356 HotelREZ
By Mark Lewis, Founder and CEO of HotelREZ Hotels & Resorts If one thing is clear, it’s that 2016 marked the beginning of a new era of uncertainty. With political upheavals like Brexit, Donald Trump and the Turkish coup d’état, terror attacks in France and Belgium and natural disasters in Italy – many of which [...]read more
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Insights into the Indian Outbound Travel Market [e-guide]

Insights into the Indian Outbound Travel Market [e-guide] 691 361 HotelREZ
The UNWTO predicts the Indian outbound travel market will account for 50 million tourists by 2020, and its total outbound spending is expected to cross the US$28 billion mark. This, coupled with the country’s new generation of middle class tourists, set to grow even further, makes it a potential tourist goldmine for thousands of destinations [...]read more
Why Going Green means good business for Hotels

Why Going Green means Good Business for Hotels [infographic]

Why Going Green means Good Business for Hotels [infographic] 690 360 HotelREZ
Whether it is done as a way to cut utility bills and use resources more efficiently, minimize your hotel’s environmental impact or differentiate your product, taking a sustainable approach simply makes good business sense. HotelREZ Hotels & Resorts expands on the business case for sustainability in hospitality, looking more specifically at hotel operations and what [...]read more
Bleisure a growing trend in Business Travel

Bleisure: a growing trend in Business Travel

Bleisure: a growing trend in Business Travel 690 360 HotelREZ
Business travel usually means boardroom meetings, negotiations and presentations. Right? Wrong. Increasingly more and more business travellers are looking to extend their business trips, turning them into leisure breaks when, and where, possible. HotelREZ sums up important information on this growing trend affecting business travel. What is Bleisure? This is how bleisure works in a [...]read more
Outlook for 2015: The Year of the Independent Hotelier

Outlook for 2015: The Year of the Independent Hotelier

Outlook for 2015: The Year of the Independent Hotelier 690 360 HotelREZ
By Mark Lewis, Founder and CEO of HotelREZ Hotels & Resorts As is customary in the beginning of every New Year, hundreds of opinion articles and white papers, from hotel marketing trends to hospitality industry forecasts, flood the internet pouring from all angles. This year, the most cited prospects tell us: mobile is here to [...]read more
How To Market To Millennial Travellers

How To Market To Millennial Travellers [e-guide]

How To Market To Millennial Travellers [e-guide] 690 360 HotelREZ
HotelREZ Hotels & Resorts, a leading global hotel representation company, has today launched a guide for independent hoteliers explaining how they can leverage their unique hotel qualities to target the next generation of millennial travellers. A lot has been said about millennial of late. Some well known facts state millennial travellers are tech savvy, they [...]read more
International Tourism up by 5%

International Tourism up by 5%

International Tourism up by 5% 690 360 HotelREZ
Data released earlier this month by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), reveals that international travel has grown by 4.6% in the first half of 2014. Just in the first six months of the year, an estimated 517 million international tourists have crossed borders, 22 million more when compared to the same period last [...]read more
The BIG Business of Golf Tourism

The BIG Business of Golf Tourism

The BIG Business of Golf Tourism 690 360 HotelREZ
Worldwide golf holiday sales by golf tour operators have grown by more than 20% over the past two years, according to IAGTO, the global trade organisation of the golf tourism industry. Earlier this year, IAGTO’s Chief Executive Peter Walton summed up the most recent trends for Golf Tourism: “Not only has the cumulative growth in [...]read more