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10 benefits of becoming a hotel manager

eHotelier

The hotel industry is a dynamic field offering diverse roles, leadership opportunities, and the chance to enhance guest experiences.

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Ozge Kalvo takes on Olympus

Hospitality Magazine

From Ester to Baba’s Place, Ozge Kalvo has worked at some of Sydney’s most celebrated restaurants. Now, The Apollo Restaurant Group has appointed Kalvo as Head Chef of its anticipated Wunderlich Lane restaurant, Olympus. When we chat, Kalvo is in the kitchen joking with her colleagues. “Sorry, I’m moving a little bit away from the kitchen staff,” she laughs.

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Four Seasons Resort Punta Mita selected as 2025 Good Housekeeping Family Travel Award Winner

eHotelier

Four Seasons Resort Punta Mita announced today that the luxury resort in the heart of Mexico’s lush Riviera Nayarit was named as a winner in Good Housekeeping’s 2025 Family Travel Awards.

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How to Measure My Hotel Website Performance Using GA4

Soft Inn

Your hotel’s website is the heart of your digital marketing, functioning as both a virtual front desk and a booking engine. To make the most of it, you need clear insights into how visitors interact with your site, what drives bookings, and where potential guests drop off. Google Analytics 4 (GA4) introduces an advanced, event-based tracking model that gives you a more nuanced understanding of these visitor interactions than ever before.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Table for One – Elevating the Solo Dining Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

Across the globe, and largely amongst younger age groups, more and more people are choosing to go out to eat by themselves. Solo dining – a time dedicated to eating a meal alone at a sit-down restaurant – is an opportunity for diners to practice self care over a meal, whether that be by relaxing and reflecting at the end of a long day or even by engaging the mind with a book or catching up on the news.

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Running a great hotel event with the Hotel Villa Pamphili Roma

eHotelier

What makes for a great conference? With the MICE travel boom that has occurred since the pandemic subsided, it’s important for all hoteliers to sharpen their groups toolkit heading into 2025 in order to get the most out of this current experiential events boom.

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Fair Work recovers $310,000 for Adelaide hospitality workers

Hospitality Magazine

The Fair Work Ombudsman has recovered a staggering amount of money for underpaid food outlet workers in Adelaide’s west. The Ombudsman investigated 36 hospitality venues in suburbs including Bowden, Croydon, Allenby Gardens, Woodville, Grange and Flinders Park, which were selected for investigation based on a range of intelligence sources. 79 per cent of businesses had breached workplace laws varying from failing to pay penalty rates to underpaying minimum wages as well as pay slip breache

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Collaborative Success for eCommerce and Revenue Management Teams

Revfine

Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: What are the best practices for building and maintaining successful collaboration and communication between hotel eCommerce and Revenue Management teams? (Question by Aida Muñoz) Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Tamie Matthews - Sales & Marketing Consultant, RevenYou Connor Vanderholm - CEO, The post Collaborative Success for eCommerce and Revenue Management Teams appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Don’t Count Out Cash

Modern Restaurant Management

The demise of cash payments might be exaggerated as 90 percent of people select cash as their most widely used payment method and 89 percent consider the ability to pay in cash as important for their customer satisfaction, according to Why Won't Cash Just Die??? , a research report from PayComplete. Among the highlights: More than two-thirds (69 percent) sayd they always have cash on them.

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Food & Beverage Industry Report 2024

Driven by a diverse and exciting ecosystem of passionate, ambitious, and often young entrepreneurs, the Food & Beverage (F&B) sector is a highly competitive environment full of immense challenges and exciting opportunities. Expert Market’s 2024 industry report, sponsored by Toast, is informed by a survey of 522 U.S. food and beverage professionals, from restaurant owners to food service managers, providing insights into the real-time challenges and opportunities within the industry.

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Waldorf Astoria New York to Open Lex Yard in Spring 2025

Lodging Magazine

NEW YORK CITY—Waldorf Astoria New York shared details on the property’s signature restaurant, Lex Yard, helmed by Chef Partner Michael Anthony. Expected to debut in spring 2025, the two-story American Brasserie-style restaurant will combine the energy of New York and contemporary dining, including a bar and dining room for locals, residents of Waldorf Astoria New York, and guests for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

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The fresh summer menus kicking off the season

Hospitality Magazine

With summer fast approaching, Sydney’s dining scene is amping up with a host of new menus across town. Longshore, Chippendale For an inner-city restaurant, Longshore has a quintessentially laidback vibe. The restaurant is leaning into this atmosphere for summer by serving up its signature coastal flavours and native ingredients with a new spin. Highlights include briny and sweet Sydney Rock Oysters sourced from Moonlight Flat near Batemans Bay and paired with a refreshing magnolia mignonette; hi

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Avion Hospitality takes charge of two Hyatt hotels in Charleston, South Carolina

Hotel Management Network

Avion Hospitality has assumed management of two Hyatt hotels in Charleston, SC, taking a strategic move in the hospitality sector. The post Avion Hospitality takes charge of two Hyatt hotels in Charleston, South Carolina appeared first on Hotel Management Network.

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Restaurant Workforce Research: Reflecting on 2024 and Optimizing for 2025

Modern Restaurant Management

Long after the restaurant industry felt the most significant impacts of the pandemic, echoes still reverberate in the form of workforce realities and operational challenges. After millions left the industry in 2020, restaurants responded by increasing wages and leaning into incentives to attract employees back. This adaptability allowed the industry to come back even stronger, but to this day, the struggle to attract and retain a stable workforce remains.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Baymahni Resort Selects Aptech’s PVNG Accounting Solution for Seamless Financial Management Ahead of Summer 2025 Opening

Hospitality Net

Aptech, a leading provider of enterprise accounting, business intelligence, financial planning and management solutions for the hospitality industry, today announces that Baymahni Resort in the Bahamas has selected its PVNG accounting solution to manage the resort’s finances through its renovation and construction phase, as well as for ongoing operations when the property opens for reservations in summer 2025.

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Total hotel profitability as the key objective for 2025

eHotelier

The new book “Total Hotel Mogel: Essays on Hotel Profitability” focuses on giving you the tools and insights you need to help your hotel organization continue to prosper no matter what 2025 brings.

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Industry bodies unite to create RespectInHospitality

Hospitality Magazine

Hospitality and business peak industry bodies have united for the first time to release RespectInHospitality, a microsite with resources, training and templates for hospitality businesses. The peak bodies and organisations include, the Australian Hotels Association NSW, Night Time Industries Association, Independent Bars Association, Clubs NSW, Restaurant & Catering Association, Business NSW, and Hospitality Industry Insurance.

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HHP acquires Hyatt Place/Hyatt House Charleston Historic District

Hotel Business

Highline Hospitality Partners (HHP) , the hospitality investment platform launched by Highline Real Estate Partners has acquired the dual-branded Hyatt Place/Hyatt House Charleston Historic District. This acquisition marks HHP’s 13th and 14th hotels, representing the company’s first entry into the Charleston market. Located along King Street in Charleston’s Historic District, the property is surrounded by dining, entertainment and cultural attractions.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Powering the Future – Why EV Charging is a Must-Have for UK Hotels

Hotel Owner

In recent years, the hospitality sector in the UK has faced unique challenges, from adapting to shifting guest expectations to meeting heightened sustainability standards. Now, as the transportation landscape rapidly changes, a new opportunity is emerging for forward-thinking hoteliers: electric vehicle (EV) charging. With EV adoption in the UK tripling over the last three years , driven by the government’s ambitious plan to ban new ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) vehicle sales by 2030, now is

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The Power Shift: How Travelers Are Transforming the Future of Business Travel

Hospitality Net

Business travel is booming. According to the GBTA’s Business Travel Index Outlook report, business travel spending is projected to reach $1.4 trillion this year and climb to $1.8 trillion by 2027.

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SLS Playa Mujeres now open in Cancun, Mexico

eHotelier

Making its grand entrance on the palm-fringed, sugar-soft sands of Costa Mujeres, SLS’s first ever all-inclusive wonderland is bringing something fresh and fabulous to the Yucatán Peninsula with its enviable blend of extravagant style, culinary artistry and electric entertainment.

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The Best Ways to Use Mango in Home Cooking

EATER

Dilek Baykara Mangoes are great for making pickles, chutneys, curries, and so much more When I was growing up in small-town India, summers arrived in full swing with the heady scent of mango blossoms. We had two trees in our backyard that rewarded us with enough fruit to last the entire season. My mother tired herself out sorting ripe mangoes for neighbors, and then for us, chopping them into precise cubes for snacking, and pureeing some for milkshakes.

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Business Automation in Hospitality: A New World

Dive into the transformative potential of business automation within the hospitality sector. This comprehensive overview showcases how innovative technologies can streamline operations, reduce costs, and elevate guest satisfaction. Discover the advantages of integrating systems like automated check-ins, CRM, and energy management to not only save on expenses but also to provide a seamless and personalized guest experience.

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Rates Refuse to Fall: Hotel Industry Faces Uncertainty as Global and Domestic Pressures Build

Lodging Magazine

In a financial climate once thought to be trending toward lower interest rates, recent market behavior has upended expectations, revealing stubbornly high rates despite the Federal Reserve’s most recent cut. This stall has perplexed economists and business leaders alike, particularly those in interest-sensitive sectors such as hospitality. The hotel sector must brace itself for potential challenges as this financial landscape shifts due to the complex global economic environment and domest

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Two new contracts executed under Choice’s SOAR program

Hotel Business

Choice Hotels International Inc. has revealed that two new contracts have been executed as part of its Supporting Ownership Access and Representation (SOAR) program, which aims to help empower and support hotel ownership for underrepresented entrepreneurs. The new contracts—a WoodSpring Suites in Truth or Consequences, NM, and a Rodeway Inn in Effingham, IL—are part of the 17 SOAR contracts signed year-to-date.

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It’s time to embed human-centric principles in all organizations

Hospitality Net

For too long, the vast majority of humanity has been left out of the business equation, says the Dean of EHL Hospitality Business School, Dr Achim Schmitt. Now educators need to play their part in driving a new, more human-centric approach.

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Sustainability in the hospitality industry: going the extra mile

eHotelier

When sustainability becomes embedded in the culture of an organization, extraordinary behaviors follow.

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Pricing for Profit: How to Set, Negotiate, and Succeed

Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader

In today’s competitive market, pricing is more than just a number — it’s the cornerstone of profitability. The right pricing strategy ensures that you capture the true value of your offering, paving the way for sustainable growth and long-term success. Join Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader, in this exclusive session where he will explore how a well-crafted pricing approach balances customer perception with business objectives, creating a powerful tool for securing both competitive advantage a