As opções de cidades perto de Vancouver para você visitar e estender seu tempo de estadia pela costa oeste da América do Norte. Vancouver é uma das cidades do Canadá que mais atraem os turistas e o que não falta nela são atrações para você desfrutar ao máximo o que de melhor a cidade tem …
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O Buquebus é a forma mais rápida e bonita de fazer a travessia do Uruguai para a Argentina ou da Argentina para o Uruguai. Eu fiz essa travessia na minha ultima visita ao Uruguai – em janeiro de 2020 – e posso garantir que é um passeio muito legal; o Buquebus é super bem equipado, sendo …
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A grande variedade de restaurantes em Vancouver promete agradar todos os bolsos e todos os paladares, uma vez que é possível encontrar pratos de diversas culinárias com os mais variados preços. Durante a minha viagem ao Canadá, conheci alguns deles e posso garantir que é possível encontrar restaurantes baratos em Vancouver, com opções deliciosas por …
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Visitar para Buenos Aires com crianças pode ser uma aventura e tanto, pois geralmente os pequenos não têm muita paciência para “turistar”. Por isso, neste artigo trago dicas de lugares que certamente os pequenos vão adorar na capital da Argentina. Minha experiência em Buenos Aires em família foi bem positiva; no meu caso viajei com …
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Conhecer as trilhas em Florianópolis é uma ótima maneira de interagir com a natureza e conhecer melhor a capital de Santa Catarina. Morar em Florianópolis é um privilégio, principalmente para aqueles que amam passeios meio a natureza, assim como eu; certamente aqueles que não perdem a oportunidade de se aventurar vão amar. A Ilha da …
Artigo publicado primeiro no site: R7.com Crisis Alert Company Finds Niche in Hospitality - Nicole Carlino | Hotel Business ATLANTA—While much of the industry’s focus is on the impacts of COVID-19—and strategies, procedures and products to put in place to mitigate concerns—the problems the industry faced before the pandemic are still there. Namely, concerns about employee safety and the implementation of panic-button devices to improve security. Centegix, an IoT company with experience in the K-12 education sector, has recently expanded to hotels, offering up its CrisisAlert solution specifically tailored to hospitality environments. “Our mission is to innovate technology to save and enrich lives,” said Brent Cobb, president, Centegix. “Hospitality industry executives approached us because the panic-button solutions protecting hotel staff were all unproven, mobile phone app-based solutions. Those executives had seen every solution on the market, heard about CrisisAlert, and asked us to consider entering a major brand’s panic-button selection process. We entered late, displaced the market leader, and were selected to start deploying our technology in Q4 2019. We quickly realized that the hospitality market was a great extension for our platform. The solution has already been used to save lives. Cobb noted that there are several factors hoteliers should look for in an alert solution: It should provide total property coverage; it should deliver the precise location of the individual requesting help; it should be discrete and easy to use; it should be a managed platform; and it should be easy to install. “Many solutions in the marketplace rely on cellular technology,” he added.” However, cellular coverage is not available in many rooms, and rarely available in maid closets, stairwells, back-office area, or elevators. If you are in the business of protecting people, you need to be certain your technology can be used anywhere on the property, both inside buildings and in outdoor areas. Our platform ensures every square inch of the property is covered so that a staff member with one of our badges can ‘push button, get help’ anywhere on the property.” And precision is key. “Cellular and WiFi-based technologies are not able to deliver room-level location accuracy,” he said. “Our technology platform includes locating devices that provide precise room-level location information and within 10 feet in all spaces.” CrisisAlert is an incident alerting solution that protects housekeeping staff by empowering anyone with a CrisisAlert badge to discreetly signal for help. It offers complete site coverage, precise location for responders, SaaS-based software that is automatically updated, completely managed service with proactive monitoring for all devices, and full 911 integration with the flexibility to notify local responders (hotel staff or local security). This last feature was driven by feedback from hotel operators. In addition, the analytics dashboard gives property management real-time access to alert data, including alert type and resolution status that provides actionable insights that can be used to drive business decisions. “The platform we deploy for hospitality is very similar to the one we deploy in the education sector, except the requirement for campus-wide alerts is largely reduced,” Cobb said. “Hotels do not have protocols to ‘lockdown’ a site. Rather, their priority is support for their staff. Our platform has an alert called ‘staff alert’ that provides an immediate response to an individual. This alert type represents more than 90% of the use of our solution in the education sector, and it is a perfect fit for hospitality.” He noted that there are several ways this technology will evolve. “We are launching walkie-talkie (digital text to voice) integration. This will allow hospitality operators to leverage existing investments,” he said. Additionally, video integration is on the horizon. “We know customers will need to provide video feeds for law enforcement, and we are working on video integration where it has been deployed in hotels,” he said. And, from an asset management standpoint, Cobb added, “Our solution can be utilized by hotels to locate meal carts, beverage carts, luggage carts, shuttles, and other assets for management and planning purposes.” Crisis Alert Company Finds Niche in Hospitality - Nicole Carlino appeared first on Hotel Business | Hotel Business - The leading source of hospitality news for owners, developers, designers, brokers, brands, management companies, lenders, REITs & asset managers. Texto fonte original: hotelbusiness.com A combinação pode parecer estranha, afinal leite e laranja não são ingredientes que juntos pareçam fazer qualquer sentido numa bebida, mas este refresco tradicional Dominicano, delicioso e nutritivo, com um nome poético — Morir Soñando pode ser traduzido literalmente por "morrer sonhando" — é uma verdadeira surpresa! É uma bebida de preparação simples, mas que requer alguns cuidados. Ter todos os ingredientes bem frios antes de os misturar é o truque. INGREDIENTES: 4 chávenas de leite evaporado frio (encontram à venda na Auchan). Atenção que leite evaporado não é o mesmo que leite condensado. Pode substituir o leite evaporado por leite de âmendoa. PREPARAÇÃO: Adicione o açúcar ao leite a gosto. Misture o extrato de baunilha. Adicione o gelo e mexa. Por fim junte o sumo de laranja e misture tudo muito bem. Sirva imediatamente. NOTA: Quem é vegan, pode usar leite de amêndoa em vez de leite evaporado, o sabor é diferente, mas fica delicioso na mesma. Artigo original publicado em The Travellight World Wyndham Extends Fee Relief Measures - Hotel Business | Hotel Business PARSIPPANY, NJ—Wyndham Hotels & Resorts will be extending fee relief measures for its franchisees through June 2020. The extended relief includes Revenue Management Service, Loyalty Retraining, MOP and Quality Inspection fees for an additional 30 days. The company is also postponing its 2021 Global Conference to help relieve franchisees of event-related fees. Wyndham took the first steps back in March, when it implemented a series of significant relief measures to help franchisees through the first 90 days of the pandemic, including the deferral of all fees accruing for the months of March, April and May 2020 to September 1, 2020. In addition to these fee relief extensions, other components of Wyndham’s recovery assistance planning include providing access to difficult-to-source hospital grade cleaning and PPE products at cost through its Count on Us initiative; enacting flexible booking policies and loyalty benefits for travelers; and honoring #EverydayHeroes with loyalty status and special rates.
Wyndham Extends Fee Relief Measures - Hotel Business appeared first on Hotel Business | Hotel Business - The leading source of hospitality news for owners, developers, designers, brokers, brands, management companies, lenders, REITs & asset managers. Texto fonte original: hotelbusiness.com HotStats: Second Wave of Coronavirus Drowns APAC Hotel Profitability - Hotel Business | Hotel Business INTERNATIONAL REPORT—Asia-Pacific had to contend with round two of the coronavirus in April. A second wave of cases, in areas such as Singapore and Hong Kong, resulted in a new ramp up of containment measures. The result was a 124.1% YOY plunge in GOPPAR to a historical low of -$13.92 for the region. Demand contraction remained the main factor behind this grim performance. Occupancy in April was down by 52.9 percentage points compared to the same time a year ago, and average rate declined by 39%, resulting in a RevPAR falling 83.8% YOY. With other revenue centers virtually closed, there was nothing to compensate for the rooms slump, and TRevPAR fell by 83.3% YOY, hitting its lowest level on record. Expenses across the board also continued to fall in April. Total labor costs were slashed by 49.5% YOY, led by cuts in rooms (down 53.3% YOY) and F&B (down 51.3%). Overhead costs followed suit, falling by 51.3% as credit card commissions evaporated and utility expenses decreased by 54.0% YOY. In all, profit conversion in APAC was recorded at -50.9% of total revenue, 86.2 percentage points below April of 2019. The silver lining is that month after month hoteliers in the region have become more efficient at minimizing the impact of revenue decreases on their bottom-lines. The flex percentage is an indicator that measures how much of each dollar lost in revenue the operation is able to retain in its profit as a result of cost-saving efforts. The higher the flex percentage, the lower the translation of revenue contractions into profit declines. In APAC, flex has been consistently increasing month after month, from 21.5% in January to 47.4% in April. This increased operational efficiency will be the cornerstone of profit recovery once countries start to re-open and travel resumes. Profit & Loss Performance Indicators – APAC (in USD)
Singapore Despite a second wave of confirmed cases, Singapore was the best-performing market in the region. After recording a negative GOPPAR value in March, profit-per-room jumped to $31.37 in April. And although this number is still 68.6% lower compared to 2019, it is a green shoot pointing toward recovery. The Singapore government identified citizens, permanent residents and long-term pass holders returning to the country from abroad as the major source of the resurgence in coronavirus cases. Subsequently, it instituted a mandatory 14-day quarantine for this type of inbound travelers as a way of containing the spread. Consequently, hotels across Singapore were turned into quarantine facilities to accommodate the heightened need for isolation quarters. The government-led demand fueled occupancy in the market, which, albeit 32.0 percentage points down YOY, reached its highest level since January at 53.1%. Average rate was down 64.8% YOY, as luxury properties, such as Conrad Centennial Singapore, InterContinental Singapore and Grand Park Orchard, closed to the general public and sold their rooms exclusively to the government. As a result, April RevPAR recorded a 78.0% YOY drop. With little contribution from ancillary revenue, TRevPAR was down 74.7% YOY, but showed a marked deceleration on its way down when looked at on a month-over-month basis. February and March results recorded 46.0% and 49.6% MOM TRevPAR contractions respectively, but in April the MOM fall was 16.8%. Singaporean hoteliers were also able to slash labor costs in April, the result of a government assistance program that paid local employees up to 75% of their salaries. Total hotel labor costs plunged by 86.9% YOY as a result, playing a huge role in the market’s profit margin. In the face of this unprecedented crisis, hotels in Singapore recorded a healthy 45.3% profit conversion of total revenue in April, placing 8.8 percentage points below the same month of the previous year. Profit & Loss Performance Indicators – Singapore (in USD)
Hong Kong Hong Kong also saw a new surge of coronavirus cases as a result of repatriated citizens, spurring a series of containment measures that included the closure of bars and all nonessential businesses, the prohibition of dine-in services at restaurants and increased travel restrictions. This further eroded profitability in a market that was already in recession since the start of political protests in June of 2019. GOPPAR in April recorded a 149.9% YOY decline, marking a new all-time low. According to the Hong Kong Tourism Board, the market saw barely 4,100 arrivals in April, compared to the 5.57 million in the same month of 2019. Occupancy nosedived by 74.3 percentage points YOY, to 12.1%, and average rate followed with a 51.1% fall, resulting in a 93.1% YOY plunge in RevPAR and an 87.2% drop in TRevPAR. Cost-saving efforts fell short in the face of such a massive revenue contraction. Total labor costs were cut by 21.5% YOY, focused mainly on operated departments such as rooms (down 20.9% YOY) and F&B (down 22.7% YOY). Overhead expenses were also down by 38.8% YOY, fueled by an 88% cut in credit card commissions and a 78.7% decline in sales & marketing expenses. Consequently, profit conversion in Hong Kong was recorded at -157.2% of total revenue in April, 197.5 percentage points below the same month of 2019. Profit & Loss Performance Indicators – Hong Kong (in USD)
HotStats: Second Wave of Coronavirus Drowns APAC Hotel Profitability - Hotel Business appeared first on Hotel Business | Hotel Business - The leading source of hospitality news for owners, developers, designers, brokers, brands, management companies, lenders, REITs & asset managers. Texto fonte original: hotelbusiness.com A Trio of Hotel Renovations - Hotel Business | Hotel Business INTERNATIONAL REPORT—Properties here and abroad are reimagining their spaces, updating amenities and adding dining outlets for guests: Town and Country Hotel in San Diego to Debut Updates this Summer Quality Inn & Suites Garden of the Gods Completes Renovation in Colorado Springs Monteverdi Tuscany Reveals Expansion Plan and Reopening Date A Trio of Hotel Renovations - Hotel Business appeared first on Hotel Business | Hotel Business - The leading source of hospitality news for owners, developers, designers, brokers, brands, management companies, lenders, REITs & asset managers. Texto fonte original: hotelbusiness.com |
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