Once again, I get carried away with a response to a blog post. I am sure this counts as real business right? Newsweek’s Budget Travel has a great article about TripAdvisor trying to deal with the long coming revelation that many of their users and reviews are not legitimate. This is, frankly, a huge blow to the site, and should pose a happy problem in it’s early adolescence as they deal with all the changes that come along with growing into adulthood. Frankly, I am thrilled that this may provoke User Generated Content sites to seek the same verification model other sites have.
The Story of the In-Room Phone, & the future of on property telephony
These conversations about archaic forms of communication will fall to the wayside during the tremendous fervour for hotels’ future comm abilities, where we will have to adopt a more pro-active and less wary view of technology, so the hospitality industry can be carried forward by technology and the advent of 2.0 – at the intersection of commerce and the community that is selling your brand.
IT BUDGETS – Hotel IT questions, and a couple answers about PMS
Someone had asked what systems of PMS are out there… and where you start. Frankly, researching, engaging, and dealing with the endless sales negotiations is daunting, and tiring. I still don’t get
Eco-Builds, LEED compliancy, Development Ethics (and a Mr. Tom Sargent)
[Ed Note: as of 2015 most links are dead, other than the 1st one] You know, I really admire Tom Sargent [Immediately jump to Perspectives article in Contract Design Magazine *HERE*]. I have known a
It’s not a movement anymore; Green & Leed is just the way we do business now.
“The point system creates perverse incentives to design around the checklist rather than to build the greenest building possible.”