Jeff Guignard of ABLE BC can’t visit members as he usually does in spring and summer; he’s come up with Virtual Happy Hours to help connect. Everyone is looking to Saskatchewan as the first province to loosen…
EDMONTON — During a week when oil prices plummeted into negative territory and Calgary cancelled this year’s iconic stampede, CLN spoke with Dave Kaiser, president and CEO of the Alberta Hotel & Lodging Association,…
As president and CEO of the Hotel Association of Canada, Susie Grynol is at the eye of the hurricane that is COVID-19 and its devastating effect on Canadian hotels.
NEW YORK — Most hotels don’t have a playbook for how to pause operations or recommission properties after a partial or temporary closure. An operating platform called Alice offers ways to bring order and standardization…
HALIFAX, N.S., RIDGEFIELD, Conn. — New Castle Hotels & Resorts (NCH) is among countless small businesses across this nation and the world that have experienced a rapid and steep decline in business as a result of…
HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. — Amid all the depressing statistics about Canadian hotel performance, Jan Freitag, senior vice-president, Lodging Insights, STR, reported that the base occupancy in Canada was “surprisingly…
HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. — The shocking statistics just keep rolling in. In comparison with the week of 31 March through 6 April 2019, the industry reported the following: Occupancy: -79.0 per cent to 12.8 per cent Average…
Toronto paints the town purple. Blue Mountain’s retro pond skim. Home Inn Express Medicine Hat welcomes front line. A new home for Centennial’s food. Westin and Sutton Place Edmonton light up with valentines.
If we learned anything from the financial crisis, it was that communicating with your lending institution is essential during these difficult times, say Steve Hedington and Salim Gulamani of Clifton Blake Asset…
Canadian Lodging News interviewed Ingrid Jarrett, president and CEO of the British Columbia Hotel Association about the COVID-19 pandemic. “Not one area in British Columbia has been left unscathed by Covid-19,” she told…
