• Whitney Spratt on the Power of Customer-Driven Innovation at Tripleseat
    Saturday, July 12, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    Whitney Spratt, General Manager of the Hotels Division at Tripleseat, sat down with us at HITEC 2025 to share how technology can unlock growth, improve guest experiences, and preserve the soul of hospitality.
  • Lighting Up Hospitality with AI
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    If you’re in hotel media and communications—part storyteller, part strategist, part brand builder—you likely thrive when 1000 things come at you at once. The work spans digital campaigns, brand storytelling, content creation, social...
  • Innovating Hospitality: Recap of the E20X 2025 Finalists
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    Since Cogwheel first participated in the pitch at E20X in 2022, the Cogwheel team has made it a tradition to follow the promising startups showcased each year. E20X (Entrepreneur 20X), hosted during HITEC, is known for spotlighting the...
  • IDS Next: First Global Hospitality ERP to Deploy Autonomous AI Support
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    IDS Next, a global leader in hospitality technology, has collaborated with Salesforce, the world’s #1 AI CRM, to transform customer support by deploying Agentforce, Salesforce’s autonomous AI agent. With this integration, IDS Next...
  • IDS Next Completes 50+ Hotel Installations in Saudi Arabia
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — Global enterprise hospitality technology leader IDS Next has successfully crossed the 50+ hotel installations milestone across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for its enterprise hospitality technology solutions.
  • Real hoteliers, real results: How properties around the world are turning cart abandonment into profit
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    Last week’s cart abandonment recovery playbook outlined strategies that you could deploy at your properties. But as any hotelier will tell you, there’s a difference between theory and reality — especially when you’re trying to hit your...
  • Why It’s Time for Boutique Hotels to Flip the Tech Stack
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    Independent hoteliers are bombarded daily with technology vendors pitching miracle solutions. Everywhere you turn, there’s another acronym, another platform, another promise to "transform" your property—if only you buy their product first.
  • Agilysys VP Tim Hansen on 19% Growth, Tech Consolidation, and the Magic of Human Hospitality
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    Tim Hansen, Vice President of Sales – Hotels & Resorts at Agilysys, joined us at HITEC 2025 to talk about the company’s impressive growth, the evolution of tech stacks in hospitality, and the delicate balance between automation and human...
  • Gold key cards - tangible reflection of your golden standard of service
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    Does your menu feature a golden cappuccino? Are your interiors adorned with gold leaf?
  • From Dream to Departure: What Drives Travelers to Book
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    When you dream about your next big adventure, what transforms that daydream into action? What takes you from “That would be amazing, someday” to “Let’s book it now”? Maybe it’s a stunning photo on social media that sparks your...
  • Interview with Ryan King (Shiji Group): Why Experience Is the New Currency
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    At HITEC 2025 in Indianapolis, we sat down with Ryan King, Senior Vice President for the Americas at Shiji Group, to unpack how hotels can measure, interpret, and act on guest experience data. Ryan explained why reputation now depends as...
  • The CMO vs CFO Budget battle
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    Recently I was reading some McKinsey and Google studies about “the effectiveness of marketing” and CMO/CEO issues. It’s a recurring boardroom drama: CMOs defending budgets while CFOs quietly (or not-so-quietly) ask for cuts. And it’s...
  • How to transform your hotel’s marketing with storytelling
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    Let’s be honest, a lot of hotel marketing sounds the same these days: “Luxury rooms”, “Friendly staff”, “Perfect location”, “Nestled”. Yawn! In the modern world, where copy-and-paste templates and AI-generated copy are everywhere, it’s...
  • Booking.Yeehaw! Riding the Booking.com Ranking Reshuffle Rodeo
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    The guest review score is a critical KPI for accommodation providers, influencing everything from OTA visibility to guest trust. So when Booking.com announced a major update to how these scores are calculated, the hospitality industry...
  • onefinestay launches Partner Portal to exclusively service global travel advisors
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    onefinestay, the leading luxury private rental brand, has built its first online portal creating a seamless new process for the 30,000 global travel advisors it works with. The Partner Portal gives advisors exclusive access to search,...
  • Minor Hotels Introduces Four Hotel Brands in Strategic Portfolio Expansion
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    Minor Hotels, a leading global hotel owner and operator with more than 560 properties across 57 countries, announces the strategic expansion of its brand portfolio with the addition of four new hotel brands, including the group’s first...
  • Preferred NextGen Leadership Council Celebrates Milestone First Year, Uniting Tomorrow’s Stars of the MICE Industry
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    Preferred Hotels & Resorts, the world’s largest independent hotel brand, is proud to celebrate the first anniversary of the Preferred NextGen Leadership Council (PNLC), a forward-thinking initiative offering insights into the future of...
  • Connecting the Dots: Shiji’s Approach to Seamless Data
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    Hotel technology can get complicated. If I had to explain why this is to a kid or a golden retriever, I would say it’s because we used the best tools at our disposal at the time, stitching things together as best we could over years or...
  • Hospitality is not an island
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    For a long time, accommodation, which evolved into hospitality, was a key component of the travel chain. It was an essential link, certainly, but it came at the end of the transportation chain and served as the starting point for the...
  • IDeaS Accelerates Expansion in Saudi Arabia with Elaf Group Partnership
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    IDeaS, a SAS company and the world’s leading provider of hospitality revenue management software and services, has announced a new partnership with Elaf Group, a leading hotel group in Saudi Arabia, for the implementation of IDeaS’ G3...
  • The Land Paradox: How Financial Stress is Creating Tomorrow’s Development Goldmine
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    Today’s challenging capital environment has created an unexpected opportunity: a surge in land offerings for ground-up hotel and resort development. While sellers may face financial pressures that drive these offerings, buyers confront...
  • The Shadow Contagion - How Banned Emotions Spread Through Your Organisation
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    Every workplace has an official emotional policy and an underground emotional reality. What if the emotions you’re not allowed to have at work are the ones actually making the decisions?
  • Winning the click: Best practices for hoteliers to design irresistible display ads
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    In today’s digital world, your potential guests are just a click away, but so is every other hotel. With travelers being bombarded by distractions across the web, your hotel display ads need more than just beautiful photos and a catchy...
  • Helix Hospitality Announces the Acquisition of Element by Westin - Bentonville, AR
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    Helix Hospitality, a Chicago-based hotel investment and management company, is proud to announce the acquisition of Element by Westin - Bentonville, located at 3401 Medlin Lane in Bentonville, Arkansas. The acquisition continues their...
  • Unlock a world of fun with GCSTIMES wooden key cards for kids!
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Hospitality Net Industry News - Caribbean
    Wooden key cards are not your average swipe‑and‑go—think of them as tiny treasure maps just inviting your little guests to dive in!
  • Raft ride on Jamaica's Martha Brae River makes for a relaxing escape
    Saturday, November 11, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    Bamboo rafting on the Jamaica river is an immersion into Mother Nature's therapeutic side.
  • Corrected: Intrepid rolls out new Cuba tours, including three cycling itineraries
    Friday, November 10, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    It also added to its Premium category with the new Premium Cuba trip, which takes travelers on a roundtrip tour from Havana, visiting Vinales, Cinefuegos and Trinidad along the way.
  • Unique Vacations' Gary Sadler offers a breakfast toast to advisors
    Saturday, November 4, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    In an often light-hearted address the exec with Sandals' sales and marketing arm thanked travel advisors for "believing in us as an organization and trusting us as a brand."
  • Fire causes damage at Four Seasons Resort Nevis
    Friday, November 3, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    The resort's Pro Shop and Fitness Centre suffered damage in the Oct. 31 blaze, but no one was hurt, and guestrooms, restaurants, pools and beach areas remain open.
  • Royal's Jason Liberty pumps up private islands at CruiseWorld
    Thursday, November 2, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    The Royal Caribbean Group CEO said advisors can expect more private-island-only sailings in the future.
  • Hyatt says Cancun demand cooled in Q3
    Thursday, November 2, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    The company said Cancun, a "go-to market" during the pandemic, has returned to "more regular seasonal patterns" -- although Hyatt cited tremendously strong demand heading into the holidays.
  • Norwegian Cruise Line reveals name, sailings for its first Prima Plus ship
    Thursday, November 2, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    The 3,571-passenger Norwegian Aqua will debut in April 2025 with seven-day Caribbean sailings from Port Canaveral and a number of new onboard experiences.
  • A Michelin-starred chef's fresh take on Puerto Rican cuisine
    Tuesday, October 31, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    I spoke with Juan Jose Cuevas, executive chef at San Juan's Condado Vanderbilt hotel, who is considered a leader in local sourcing and the farm-to-table movement on the island.
  • Events on tap to celebrate Ritz-Carlton Aruba's 10th anniversary
    Tuesday, October 31, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    Among the events are several that are free to all guests and one that's for Marriott Bonvoy members only.
  • Wellness package at Dominica's Coulibri Ridge promises 'Immersive Serenity'
    Tuesday, October 31, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    The seven-night Immersive Serenity package includes spa, movement and mindfulness activities and incorporates the island's sulphur springs and waterfalls.
  • Renovations at Dominica's Fort Young Hotel include two new types of rooms
    Tuesday, October 31, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    Fort Mountain View and Fort Ocean View rooms have been added in the historical section of the Fort Young Hotel & Dive Resort, in the capital city of Roseau.
  • Spirit to fly daily Fort Lauderdale-St. Maarten nonstops
    Tuesday, October 31, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    The flights will depart late morning from Fort Lauderdale, arriving at St. Maarten's Princess Juliana Airport at 2:55 p.m.
  • Dominican Republic unveils winter ad campaign: 'Change the Season'
    Monday, October 30, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    The campaign comes on the heels of record tourism growth for the Dominican Republic in 2023, much of which has been driven by U.S. travelers.
  • Pool party at Grand Palladium Jamaica Resort & Spa
    Saturday, October 28, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    You don't have to look very far if you're in the mood for a dip at the family-friendly, all-inclusive resort.
  • Hurricane Norma weakens but is still Category 3 as it threatens Mexico
    Thursday, October 19, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    The storm is forecast to reach Los Cabos and its twin resort towns of San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas by Saturday.
  • Sandals brings off-property dining program to Nassau resort
    Thursday, October 19, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    The Sandals Royal Bahamian offers eligible guests a voucher to dine at a participating restaurant outside the resort.
  • Carnival Miracle will sail in Europe in summer 2025
    Tuesday, October 17, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    The 2,124-passenger ship will depart from three homeports: Lisbon, Dover (London) and Civitavecchia (Rome).
  • BVI Food Fete becomes a year-round celebration
    Monday, October 16, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    The Food Fete, which includes the Taste of Tortola and Taste of Virgin Gorda festivals, had traditionally been a monthlong event held each November.
  • Sandals Dunn's River reflects an evolving brand
    Sunday, October 15, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    Sandals executive chairman Adam Stewart calls the transformed Jamaica resort "Sandals 2.0," fueled by the imagination and innovation of his late father, Butch.
  • Coconut Bay Beach Resort reopens after a September spruce-up
    Saturday, October 14, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    During the St. Lucia resort's annual closure, it built a new wedding gazebo and doubled the Sanctuary Spa cabanas.
  • Island Routes offers booking incentives for travel advisors
    Friday, October 13, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    Bonus commissions for booking the company's new Private & Bespoke Collections products and a contest to win a $5,000 Island Routes experience are being offered to agents.
  • Grand Bahama Shipyard spending $600 million on floating drydocks
    Thursday, October 12, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    The drydock yard, jointly owned by Carnival Corp. and Royal Caribbean Group, called the project "transformational."
  • Bahia Principe all-inclusives in the Dominican Republic offer new dining options
    Thursday, October 5, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    The Bahia Principe Grand Cayacoa and Bahia Principe Grand Samana are accommodating guests who would like to dine outside the resorts.
  • An unusual Four Seasons backstory
    Wednesday, October 4, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    When Four Seasons Resort Dominican Republic at Tropicalia opens in 2026, it will be only one milestone in what owner Adriana Cisneros envisions will take another 40 years to complete.
  • Exploring the Dominican Republic is about to get easier
    Tuesday, October 3, 2023 from Travel Weekly Caribbean News
    Officials in the Dominican Republic have announced the creation of a rail line that will connect Punta Cana with the capital city of Santo Domingo and other points in the country.
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