Lufthansa Innovation Hub used artificial intelligence to analyze the major themes and topics discussed by Wall Street’s banking analysts and the top management executives of five major airlines during 60 earnings calls between 2015 and 2018.

TheBed and Breakfast Associationis supporting a petition to make bidding by OTAs on a B&B or hotel's name on search engines illegal.

There's good disruption and bad, and plenty of corporate travel buyers will argue whether the disruption in ground transportation by transportation network companies (TNCs) like Uber and Lyft has been good or bad for their travel programs.

It was a pleasure to host the more than 30 HFTP members and delegates who attended the HFTP Members’ Interest meeting at the superb Rosewood Hotel in London last week. While scheduled to begin at 6:00 p.m., it was a good sign when the attendees arrived early and stayed late.

Every month the club board, finance committee, general manager, and department heads receive copies of the club’s financial statement made up of the balance sheet and operating statement prepared by the club controller. The intent is to provide all stakeholders with a summary report of the club’s financial performance.

Of course, we are speaking of increased valuation of your company when we speak of “wealth.” Especially if you are in the early stage of growing a business, these five risks can and often do derail entrepreneurs before realizing the riches of a great exit. So, let’s examine them and mitigate them. Make you wealthy someday.

Washington has had the reputation as a good ole boys club for decades. If you weren’t in the inner circle, getting things done on Capitol Hill was an uphill battle, pun intended. However, times are changing. Not only are women taking over a larger portion of the seats at the table, a new wave of representatives is bringing about new opportunities for advancing legislation for associations.

Hotel demand continues to rise, and with it, new opportunities for both investors. According to property consultants JLL’s Hotel Investment Outlook 2019, Europe has been particularly strong, with approximately 60% of pipeline rooms under construction in Germany and the UK. In North America, while hotel performance has been increasingly steadily over the past decade, its pipeline has slowed marginally. In Asia, Africa and the Middle East, pipeline as a share of existing hotels has gone up.

Entrepreneurs and leaders of our industry are well aware of the potential in the millennial demographic. Where they are less sure-footed is around how to cash in on this segment of the market. What is going on and what is needed?

Oh, I know. When you started the business, you took investments from friends and family in small amounts just to get you started. Of course, that worked at the time. But…

In certain legacy industries, hospitality being one, it’s tempting to feel that there will be plenty of time to adapt to change, but anyone who’s been in the industry during the last 10 years knows that’s not correct. Many disrupting changes have happened a lot faster than most hoteliers and hospitality providers ever thought they would. Today, change moves even faster. More than ever, it’s important to be curious, proactive and embrace perpetual change.

Business travel management platforms Certify and Chrome River are merging in a transaction valued at more than $1 billion.

Vacation rental technology specialist BookingPal has raised $12 million in funding. The round was led by Valor Capital Group with Altabix and a “new strategic investor” also participating.

It’s a fact of life that a banker, lender or lessor will ask for a personal guarantee from the founder or entrepreneur most every time. But what if you’ve diluted your interest from 100% to something less than 50%?

The hotel industry continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. The latest figures from the UNWTO show international arrivals growing 6% in 2018 to total 1.4 billion. More people want to travel. And more investors and owners are entering the mix, hoping to turn a profit through hotel ownership and operation.

For the first time, Booking Holdings is releasing details on Booking.com’s alternative accommodations business as part of its financial report.

No matter how much success a hotel has attracting guests, there is always a need to increase online hotel ROI to earn back the time and money spent on hotel marketing. Here are six steps hoteliers can follow to boost their online ROI.

Would you like to join us at one of HFTP’s major events coming up this year and take advantage of its valuable education and networking opportunities — registration complimentary of HFTP®? Do you have an interest in sharing your experiences with other hospitality technology and finance professionals?

Zhouyou Technology has received an investment from its European partner Peakwork, in a bid to expand dynamic packaging services in China.

Our colleague Laura A. Stutz at Epstein Becker Green has a post on the Health Employment and Labor Blog that will be of interest to our readers in the hospitality industry: “Race Discrimination on the Basis of Hair Is Illegal in NYC.”

Travelport passed the $2.5 billion annual revenue mark for the first time in its history during 2018. But it will soon head back to the land of private equity ownership.

As providers of the leading Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics platform for the hospitality industry (HotelIQ), at Intelligent Hospitality we’re often asked to replicate existing reports that hotels produce manually.

I cannot tell you how many times I have seen executive summaries of business plans in which the entrepreneur seeks $5,000,000 to build the business.

Seven trending hotel news stories that will impact your hotel Revenue Strategy.

Sabre has reported revenue up 4.8% to $923.9 million and net income up almost 3% to $84.4 million in Q4 earnings. The company’s chief executive Sean Menke attributed the “strong financial performance” for the quarter and the year to the strategy it laid out at the beginning of 2018.

Expedia Group finished 2018 on the upswing, reporting double-digit growth in bookings, revenue, adjusted net income and adjusted EBITDA for the full year compared to 2017.