[ad_1] Tarsadia Capital, a 3.9 percent shareholder in Extended Stay America, plans to vote against the proposed $6 billion sale of ESA to Blackstone Real Estate Partners and Starwood Capital Group, the company announced in a letter sent Monday to fellow ESA shareholders. Hawk Ridge Capital Management, which has about a 2 percent stake in…

[ad_1] The number of corporate transient hotel requests for proposals issued through Cvent’s business transient product for 2021 declined about 35 percent year over year, Cvent officals said this month, and those clients that issued RFPs typically included fewer hotels. Several clients rolled 2020 negotiated rates into 2021, said Cvent VP of sales Janine Alsalam…

[ad_1] The Star Alliance later this year will open a management office in Singapore, its second in addition to its main office in Frankfurt. The Singapore office will focus on the alliance’s digital customer experience strategy and will “be an important dimension of positioning the alliance to deliver on its [post-Covid-19 strategy],” according to the…

[ad_1] With vaccination programs humming along, at least in the United States, and social distancing measures being relaxed, the long-awaited return of corporate travel finally appears to be on the horizon. But there won’t be a simple reversion to business as usual. Among the most significant new elements of post-pandemic travel—particularly in the first phases…

[ad_1] In what likely will be the final month during this crisis with significant year-over-year declines in the U.S. hotel industry’s key performance indicators, February’s KPIs improved month over month from January, and hotels reported lower year-over-year declines in all three metrics, according to STR.  The Covid-19 pandemic in the United States began in full…

[ad_1] Air France over the next four weeks is conducting a test of a mobile health passport founded in part by International SOS on flights to Paris from both San Francisco and Los Angeles. The carrier is trialing the ICC AOKpass app, which was developed by International SOS’s MedAire in partnership with the International Chamber…

[ad_1] Spending on U.S. business travel in 2020 totaled $103.2 billion, down 70 percent year over year, according to a new Tourism Economics analysis released Wednesday by the U.S. Travel Association. The devastation wreaked on the travel industry by the Covid-19 pandemic shows the continuing need for U.S. federal government aid to suppliers, according to…

[ad_1] Cloud hotel property management software and contactless technology company StayNTouch has partnered with Marriott International’s Design Hotels to provide PMS and guest-facing mobile technology for the brand, StayNTouch announced. The partnership gives Design Hotels’ portfolio of more than 300 properties access to StayNTouch’s cloud and contactless solutions to “simply their operations and provide an…

[ad_1] About three-quarters of corporate travel buyers and procurement professionals surveyed this month by the Global Business Travel Association project their organizations will resume non-essential domestic business travel sometime this year, if they haven’t already.  About 60 percent of the approximately 302 respondents to the GBTA survey, which was conducted online March 8-13, indicated they…

[ad_1] Sonesta International Hotels Corp. has completed its acquisition of Red Lion Hotels parent RLH Corp., the company announced. As a result, Sonesta now has approximately 1,200 locations and more than 100,000 guest rooms across a portfolio of 15 brands, according to the company. In addition, Sonesta announced that industry veteran Keith Pierce will join…