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How Hospitality Hiring Trends Can Improve Your Hotel Experience

Smart Meetings

Planners can expect a more automated lobby in the future, hopefully reducing delays. AI can add a personal touch to the impersonal automated check in, too, when it gives you recommendations and makes plans like a human concierge. Some locations have gone as far as to install check in kiosks in their lobbies. Flexible Schedules.

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Marriott Takes a Giant Leap for the Planet, Commits to ‘Net Zero’ by 2050

Smart Meetings

In a press release, the company lists possible steps it will take, including use of renewable energy, building electrification to maximize renewable electricity, more energy-efficient building standards and installation of automation systems and energy efficiency upgrades (for example, smart thermostats).

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The Great Resignation: Labor Shortages In Hospitality & Events

Endless Events

When an employer pays you that wage, they say to you: ‘I would pay you less if I could, but the government won’t let me – that’s how little I think of it’ Minimum wage means: ‘I’m legally obligated to give you this much money and not any less. And those people are treated poorly, to say the least.

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Choice Hotels International 2022 Environmental, Social and Governance Report: Building a Better Tomorrow, Today

Travel Daily News

– From innovative technology to conserve energy and water to even more ambitious diversity goals for hotel ownership, the 2022 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report released by Choice Hotels International, Inc. ROCKVILLE, MD.

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15 Best Business Travel Cities for Spring 2025 (Expert-Picked)

Traveler's Q

Washington DC: Political Power Center Image Source: The Coalition for Government Procurement Washington DC is a vital business travel destination where policy, politics, and spring celebrations join together. The Garden Club of America Amphitheater accommodates 250 attendees and features coconut palm trees and oolitic Florida limestone.

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2020 Event Tech Trends That Will Shape The Year

Endless Events

This coming decade will be… One of the greatest technology trends will be the implementation of artificial intelligence” “And this covers a really wide range of fields from artificial, from facial recognition to chatbots to marketing automation to”, he continues. “The list goes on and on. Corbin’s Take.

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3 Ways for Event Planners to Strategically Incorporate AI

Convene by PCMA

Enlist your technology solution provider/s for advice and help with the ROI assumptions, and for further automating the processes that will move the needle the most. Nearly one-third believe that federal or state government should be responsible for assuring the safe use of emerging technology and AI in the workplace and economy.

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