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Hotelsmag.com
By: Kathakali Nandi
The American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) has sued the Biden administration over what it calls a franchise-model destroying regulation.
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Lodgingmagazine.com
eTip announced it added instant cashless tip payouts for restaurant workers to its platform. With this new feature, eTip allows food service establishments to provide real-time, cashless tip payouts directly to their employees’ existing bank accounts.
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Costar.com
Hotel News Now
By: Sean McCracken
It'd be virtually impossible for any company to maintain the growth trajectory of Sonesta Hotels International in the past few years.
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Hotel News Now
By: Lodging Staff
WASHINGTON—American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) President and CEO Chip Rogers spoke after the National Labor Relations Board issued a final regulation expanding the “joint-employer standard” under the National Labor Relations Act. The standard is used to determine when two or more employers are jointly responsible for a shared group of workers’ essential terms and conditions of employment and thus jointly liable for violations of the National Labor Relations Act and have joint bargaining responsibilities for unionized employees. The NLRB’s expansion, effective Dec. 26, 2023, will impact business-to-business relationships in a manner that will limit opportunities for small businesses and entrepreneurs and threaten the franchising model.
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Costar.com
Hotel News Now
By: Dana Miller
As Halloween approaches, hoteliers across the globe are putting guests in a spooky state of mind through creative cocktail concoctions.
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Hotelmags.com
By: Guest Contributor - Melissa DelBuono, senior director, Travel Funders Network.
In today’s fast-evolving business landscape, one of the most significant challenges that hoteliers and those in the hospitality sector face is effectively managing the Generation Z workforce. Gen Z, born between the mid-1990s and early 2010s, represents the youngest generation to enter the workforce. They bring with them a unique set of characteristics, values and expectations that require a fresh approach to leadership and management.
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Costar.com
Hotel News Now
By: Trevor Simpson
PHOENIX — Labor woes across the hotel industry have motivated hoteliers to increase their reliance on technology such as automation and artificial intelligence to retain and improve efficiency.
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Costar.com
Hotel News Now
By: Stephanie Ricca
WASHINGTON — Branded hotel residences have long been a staple of luxury hotel development. But as demand grows for hotel-like homes, companies such as Marriott International and Hilton are expanding a unique segment: hotel-branded residential developments without the hotel.
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Costar.com
Hotel News Now
By: Sean McCracken
Even as wage growth and availability issues moderate somewhat across the hotel industry, labor continues to be a major issue, highlighted by the wave of strikes in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
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Costar.com
Hotel News Now
By: Laura Koss-Feder
As the weather cools down in the Northern Hemisphere, the action in hotel kitchens is heating up and hoteliers are trying out new menu items in food and beverage to entice guests.
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