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Deloitte

How Too Much Reliance On Technology Can Ruin Hospitality for Good

2021-07-18 by Phil Butler

Porto Bay Rio

The COVID-19 pandemic has not changed everything. Hospitality will always be about people, and experiences. The front desk must stay.

Tags: American Hotel & Lodging Association, Binu Mathews, Chip Rogers, concierge, Deloitte, desk clerk, front desk, guest preferences, hospitality trends, HospitalityNet, hotel marketing, hotel tech, Hotrec, IDS Next, Magnani Caruso Dutton, marketing, OpenKey, tech, Vikram Oberoi

Resilient Business Ecosystems: The Only Vaccine for Travel & Hospitality

2020-08-24 by Phil Butler

COVID alternative

The only way to weather the COVID-19 storm is to be lean, efficient, and flexible in the short and long term.

Tags: COVID-19, Deloitte, Doug Satzman, Greece COVID, Greek hotels, hotel business, hotels, investing, lean business, Liberty International Airport, Magnuson Hotels, pandemic economics, RevitUP, RevPAR, ROAS, Sevi Boutique Hotel, Tom Magnuson, XpresCheck, XpresSpa Group

Deloitte Tags Guy Langford as Leader of US Travel, Hospitality & Leisure Practice

2014-05-12 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Guy Langford

Guy Langford succeeds Adam Weissenberg as Vice-Chairman of Deloitte, according to a press release by the firm today. Deloitte LLP, and leader of the Travel, Hospitality & Leisure in the US, serves about 80 percent of all Fortune 500 travel.

Tags: business travel, Deloitte, Fortune travel, people moves

OTAs and the Offer Hotels Can’t Refuse

2011-11-21 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Mobster

An article by Hotel News Now Editorial Director Jeff Higley last Thursday may just be the bugle call for a coming battle between OTAs and their benefactors, hoteliers. Higley’s report from the 23rd Deloitte European Hotel Investment Conference shined a bright light on growing friction between third party distribution agents, and the service providers they are supposed to help.

Tags: billboard effect, booking commissions, commissions, Deloitte, Deloitte European Hotel Investment Conference, Expedia, high commissions, Hotel News Now, IHG, Jeff Higley, OTA commissions, paying commissions, Richard Solomons

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When the Water Runs Out, the Illusion Runs With It

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An official document confirms what many feared: water and sewage capacity in Crete cannot support new large hotel developments.

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Why Cretans Start the Year in the Sea

2025-12-28 By Manuel Santos

Why Cretans welcome the New Year in the sea. A look at the New Year’s Dive tradition in Crete, where it happens, and how to take part safely.

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A Vasilopita with a Sacred Purpose Near Heraklion

2025-12-27 By Iorgos Pappas

A charitable Vasilopita event will take place on January 4, 2026, near Heraklion, supporting the completion of the Church of Saints Parthenios and Evmenios.

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Rethymno Farmers Turn Protest Into a Community Table

2025-12-27 By Victoria Udrea

Livestock farmers in Rethymno staged a symbolic protest by boiling and sharing meat with citizens, and donating over one ton of meat to local soup kitchens.

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Interactive Kallikantzaroi Children’s Performance in Neapoli on December 30

2025-12-27 By Argophilia Travel News

Interactive Kallikantzaroi performance by Katsimihas brothers’ story will take place at the Municipal Garden of Neapoli on December 30.

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