On April 26, the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration and Center for Hospitality Research hosted “The Next 100 Years: Innovators and Disruptors Shaping the Future of Hospitality,” a webinar facilitated by Women Leading Travel & Hospitality’s vice president of brand strategy, Hannah DeMaio. Joining DeMaio to speak on the difficulties the...
Talent recruitment and retainment is harder than ever in the post-pandemic world of work. Why? In part, it’s because people who understand the future of travel and hospitality are in such high demand. Your competitors are trying to woo the same people you are, and if you don’t offer the right role, compensation, benefits, training, development...
No other industry has been as affected by the COVID-19 pandemic as travel and hospitality. In fact, since 2020, the United Nations has determined that the pandemic has caused the industry about $1 trillion in losses and 100 million jobs worldwide. This has caused many businesses to close entirely. Fortunately, though, this year marks a...
Once upon a time BC (Before COVID), and back in the day, otherwise known as the 80s, I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar. I had just graduated college and had no idea what I wanted to do for a career, but there was one thing I knew for certain: my life’s...
There’s a group of industry leaders convening in Dallas next month who all have something unique in common: shared experiences of what it’s like to be a woman leading a team during one of the most profound periods that the travel and hospitality industries has ever experienced. During Women Leading Travel & Hospitality’s next in-person...
Ah, the elusive term … “dream job.” We hear it so often growing up and throughout our careers. So much so that many of us aim our sights on giant lofty goals and then get frustrated and disillusioned when life doesn’t pan out the way we imagined. Is it any surprise that more than 60...
Although I wasn’t able to attend in person, I had the privilege of listening to the CEO panel recording from the She Has a Deal event a couple of weeks ago. Tracy Prigmore, founder of She Has a Deal, launched the organization with the goal of increasing the number of women hotel owners and developers....
Amy Faber is director, business support services for meetings and incentives at Signet Jewelers. She has over 15 years of progressive experience in developing and executing large-scale internal and external business events and conferences in person and virtual. Amy is also a Women Leading Travel & Hospitality member! In this member spotlight, we asked her a...
Loyalty is a key priority for travel and aviation companies. It’s more imperative now than ever to incentivize travelers by offering awards and vouchers for loyalty program members. These were key themes at the April 21 Travel Loyalty Summit hosted by Skift. Wouter Geerts, Skift’s director of research data products, joined the event to discuss...
Following a vote by the AAHOA board of directors, Laura Lee Blake, Esq., will be the new president and CEO of AAHOA, the nation’s largest hotel owners association, effective May 16. Blake will succeed Ken Greene, who served in the role for a short time in 2021 and part of 2022. Blake has been an...
