Articles tagged “choice hotels”

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Interview: Room Key CEO on Next Phase of the Hotel Chain Joint Venture

Room Key, the joint venture by Choice Hotels, Hilton Worldwide, Hyatt, InterContinental Hotels Group, Marriott and Wyndham, hasn't set the world on fire, and doesn't appear to have had much of an impact on the chains' businesses.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

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Choice Hotels To Soon Decide Fate of Money-Losing Subsidiary

Choice Hotels had an asset, its own property management system, and decided in 2013 to offer the solution to unaffiliated hotels, but it is always a tough sell for one brand to attempt to sell services to competitors, as Choice is finding out.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

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Millennial Travelers Prefer Losing Luggage to Going Without Phones

If hoteliers needed a wakeup call about the necessity to providing free Wi-Fi to leisure travelers, then this Choice Hotels survey should be loud and clear.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

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Rebranded Cambria Hotels and Suites to Target Millennials With Redesigned Lobbies and Rooms

Will Millennials really be swayed by soft music and hotel lobby front desks that are more curvy than square? We'll reserve judgment until we see the changes in reality later this year.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

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Latin America is better than Asia for fast expansions, say hotel execs

All global players have their sights set on long-term growth in China and India, but groups should focus short-term efforts on meeting the rising demand in smaller markets of South America and Southeast Asia.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

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Choice Hotels’ big three priorities on tech: cloud, mobile, big data

Choice has been among progressive on using digital, and has recently appointed a CTO to now leverage these big three tech priorities at one of the larget hotel chains.

Skift | 11 years ago

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Inefficient shower heads at hotels are now climate change issue, SEC rules

Fascinating corporate battle that will increasingly get played out at the shareholder level, and the hospitality industry has to become more responsible or shareholders and SEC will force them to.

Skift | 11 years ago

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Choice Hotels looking at a down 2013, as profits fall 22 percent in Q1

RTT News | 11 years ago

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Choice Hotels CEO on the opportunity other brands are missing in Europe

Choice Hotels is playing its strengths by entering the European markets as most brands focus on Asia, in a strategy that could make the group one of continent’s largest players in the future.

Nadja Brandt, Bloomberg | 11 years ago

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Choice Hotels forms division to sell its technology to rivals

Officials hope the new Choice Hotels division will break out of the slow-moving hotel world, and make its mark as a technology startup. Whether creating a new division will help entice competitor chains and independents to sign on remains to be seen.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago