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OYO Rooms: India’s largest budget hotel brand built in less than 3 years!
Overview: India’s hotel industry is highly fragmented with very few brands catering to the budget travel segment and small/unorganised players accounting for lion’s share. Rising middle-class and...
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ICEHOTEL: 8th Wonder of the World?
Every year, 80 couples wed at a church made of snow and ice in the small village of Jukkasjärvi in the north of Sweden. They then proceed to spend the wedding night in a hotel room with temperature...
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Need a Hotel, Tonight?
Ever needed to book a hotel room last-minute? I never expected to on my trip to Croatia this summer, until it dawned on me that I would spend the next week of my life on a cramped yacht with no AC. I...
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Airbnb and The Sharing Economy: Creating Value for Everyone
Background: Founded in 2008, Airbnb has created an online marketplace connecting travelers to potential hosts. Today, Airbnb has over 1,500,000 host listings offered in 34,000 cities and 190+...
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Hospitality in an increasingly inhospitable world
Among the different industries involved in tourism, hospitality is particularly vulnerable to climate change given the relatively high volume of fixed assets in locations that will suffer the most from...
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Your Garden View Just Became an Ocean View: Marriott and Climate Change
The title’s not just a wisecrack – I was trying to get a rise out of you, but be sure that the tourism industry is looking for ways to do just the opposite to the world’s sea levels. Hospitality will...
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Time for Marriott to ‘Check-in’ to Climate Change
Climate change has the potential to destroy Marriott International’s business as we know it. From its resorts nestled along the beautiful white sandy beaches of the Caribbean to its majestic mountain...
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Airbnb: Using Technology to Reimagine Travel
Initially created in 2007 as a short-term solution for founder and CEO Brian Chesky to cover rent in San Francisco, Airbnb has rapidly grown over the past nine years to become the go-to online booking...
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YOTEL-ing Me Free WiFi’s as Creative as You Can Get?
Whether I am traveling for business or pleasure, I am beset by a unique feeling whenever I check in for my stay at a hotel: A sense of naive excitement and wonder, even if I have frequented the same...
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