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Tata Group hotel subsidiary launches first Indian homestay chain

By ASAP Newsdesk On 29th July 2019 · Add Comment · In Airbnb, APAC, Breaking News, Global News, homestay, India
Indian Hotels Co. Ltd , owned by the Tata Group and best known for its Taj hotel brand, has launched the first branded homestay product in India, Amã Trails & Stays. Meaning “home” in Sanskrit, Amã aims to have 100 properties within the country before the end of 2020, ranging from US$100 to US$150 per [...]
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Booking Holdings shakes up senior management

By ASAP Newsdesk On 27th June 2019 · Add Comment · In booking.com, Breaking News, Insights, OTA, Trending News
Booking Holdings has overhauled some of its top management, replacing Gillian Tans as president and CEO of Booking.com with the parent company’s chief executive, Glenn Fogel and creating a new role for her as Booking.com chairwoman. It is thought this is part of a move to align the disparate brands under Booking’s umbrella, and follows [...]
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Future plans for ASAP : interview with James Foice, CEO

By ASAP Newsdesk On 18th June 2019 · Add Comment · In Airbnb, Alternative accommodation, ASAP News, Breaking News, Front Page, Research Centre, Trending News
In this first interview of a series, James Foice of ASAP outlines some of his intentions for the Association over the next months and years, and how it plans to support Members and the wider sector in making greater inroads into consumer awareness. You’ve said the Association has got plans for the coming year and [...]
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Talent development in hospitality is no longer a nice-to-have

By ASAP Newsdesk On 7th June 2019 · Add Comment · In Breaking News, Insights, Trending News
With the travel industry accounting for a tenth of all jobs worldwide, forecast to rise to one in nine and total over 400 million jobs by 2028, Benoît-Etienne Domenget, CEO of Sommet Education Hospitality, says that hospitality professionals need both hard and soft skills. Employers in the industry need to reconsider their approach to talent [...]
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Former senior vice president of retail at Apple appointed to Airbnb board

By ASAP Newsdesk On 17th May 2019 · Add Comment · In Airbnb, Appointments, Breaking News, Insights, Trending News
Ahead of its IPO, expected in the next twelve months, Airbnb has made yet an addition to its board of directors, appointing Angela Ahrendts,  the former senior vice president of retail at Apple,  as its third independent non-affiliated board member. She joined Apple in 2014 after eight years as CEO of Burberry. Read more:
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Navigating the Noise Episode 9: Buildings of the Future

By ASAP Newsdesk On 1st March 2019 · Add Comment · In ASAP News, Cheval Collection, CHPA, Front Page, The Ascott Ltd, Trending News
ASAP is sponsoring the CHPA’s podcast series, Navigating The Noise, featuring futurist Brian David Johnson. Episode 9 has been released, examining the buildings of the future and how we live, work and play in them, which has importance for the corporate housing/serviced accommodations industry. In this podcast, Brian David Johnson and Mary Ann Passi, CEO [...]
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James Foice heretostay.tv interview, on global accreditation for extended stay

By ASAP Newsdesk On 20th February 2019 · Add Comment · In ASAP News, ASAP Quality Accreditation, Breaking News, Trending News
James Foice, CEO of the Association of Serviced Apartment Providers, was interviewed by Glenn Haussman on Heretostay.tv (powered by BridgeStreet.com, @BridgeStreetApt) at the CHPA 2019 conference. He speaks about why, and how, international trade associations representing the extended stay industry such as CHPA and ASAP, are coming together to introduce new global accreditation to protect [...]
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We live – and operate – in interesting times

By ASAP Newsdesk On 13th February 2019 · Add Comment · In booking.com, Breaking News, google, Hospitality, Insights, Instagram, OTA, Trending News, Tripadvisor
Sharing whatever we’re doing, seeing, experiencing, has become the norm in life. The ease with which we can post instantly on social media can lead to a blurring between our own lives and those of complete strangers. I write this on the day after the notorious drugs lord ‘El Chapo’ was sentenced in court – [...]
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Cycas appoints Matt Luscombe as its first CEO

By ASAP Newsdesk On 12th February 2019 · Add Comment · In Appointments, ASAP Members, Breaking News, Cycas Hosptality, EMEA, Front Page, Global News, Trending News
ASAP Member Cycas Hospitality has announced the appointment of former IHG senior leader Matt Luscombe as Chief Executive Officer, to help triple its European portfolio to 10,000 rooms by 2022. Matt brings almost 20 years’ ‘hospitality and consumer experience, including ten senior leadership positions at IHG, most recently as Chief Commercial Officer for Europe, where he worked [...]
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Airbnb hire signals move towards transportation

By ASAP Newsdesk On 11th February 2019 · Add Comment · In Airbnb, Insights, Trending News
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky has previously hinted that the company might consider “Airbnb Flights”, but it was unclear whether this might be a new airline, a booking engine or a metasearch platform. Now it has hired aviation industry veteran Fred Reid, founding CEO of Virgin America among others, to be its first global head of transportation. [...]
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