Latest Contributed Articles

• What happens when performance marketing caps?
  By Martin Soler, Partner at Soler & Associates
• The keys to successfully positioning your hotel brand
  By RJ Friedlander, CEO of ReviewPro
• The datafication of hospitality: Three reasons to start looking into data science
  By Meng-Mei (Maggie) Chen, Assistant Professor at Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne and Alessandro Inversini, Associate Professor in Marketing at Ecole hoteliere de Lausanne
• Digital marketing & revenue management: Powerful partners in profitability
  By Tammy Farley, President & Co-Founder, The Rainmaker Group
• Nobody told you there’d be days like these
  By Matthias Huettebraeuker, Brand Strategist
• Get off the social media merry-go-round with social commerce
  By Hilary Murphy, Associate Dean and Full Professor of Digital Marketing at Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne and Alessandro Inversini, Associate Professor in Marketing at Ecole hoteliere de Lausanne
• Hotel brand building in a digital age
  By David Turnbull, Hospitality Entrepreneur , Founding Partner at Techtalk.travel
• Eleven questions for citizenM CMO Robin Chadha | Interview by Martin Soler
  By Robin Chadha,
• Yes, clicks and conversions are important, but don’t forget about brand marketing
  By Daniel E. Craig, Founder, Reknown
• Independent hotels: An action plan to win the direct booking
  By Max Starkov, Adjunct Professor NYU Tisch Center for Hospitality, Founder & Director at HEBS Digital

Partners of Hotel Yearbook

Special Series

• Visioning The Post-COVID-19 Era in Guest-Facing Technology
  By Markus Boberg, Global President Hospitality at ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions
• Bridging the Gap Between Guest Facing and Operations Technology in Hotels
  By Alex Shashou, President & co-founder of ALICE
• Fulfilling Guest Needs in a Post-COVID and Guest Room-Centric Era
  By Pierre Agrario, Vice President of Account Management and Business Development at Bartech International
• Hotels Engaging In Contactless Tech Racing Ahead Of COVID Recovery Pace
  By Roy Friedman, Founder and CEO of EasyWay
• Why Guest-Room Tablets Are The Future Of In-Room Tech In The Hotel Room
  By Moritz von Petersdorff-Campen, Founder and Managing Director, SuitePad GmbH
• The future is touchless. What future?
  By Eugene Jones, CEO at RoomOrders, Inc.
• In a Mobile-Everything World, the Post-COVID Future Is Bright for Guest Tech
  By Robert Stevenson, CEO of INTELITY
• Setting a Course for Enhanced Guest Satisfaction and Safety in the Post-COVID Era
  By Gary Patrick, CEO at Hotel Internet Services
• The Power of Guest Choice
  By Don DeMarinis, Senior Vice President Sales, Americas
• Access Control Technology Will Help Reopen The Doors
  By Steve Burk, Marketing Director, SALTO Systems

Foresight and Innovation

The Hotel Yearbook is a family of publications that call upon a wide-ranging group of senior executives, analysts, consultants and opinion leaders from all over the world to ask, "What lies ahead for the global hotel industry?"

In The Hotel Yearbook - whether it is the highly respected annual edition or any of the special editions focusing on such critically important themes as technology, talent development, or the digital world - our forward-looking contributors share with you the key trends and developments that they believe could have an impact on the performance of the hotel industry in the future.

If you are working in the hotel business, the result is a comprehensive and truly fascinating compendium of trends and factors that could affect your business soon. And the new and innovative ideas that could fuel its growth in the years to come.

Woody Wade - Publisher Hotel Yearbook