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What’s the world's largest and longest-running hospitality technology event?That would be HITEC – or for those with more time – The Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference. It brings together hospitality's absolute best from around the globe, which naturally includes Mews. Mews will be at stand 1445 to talk how great hospitality tech can transform your business.Want to have a chat with the partnership team? Just pop by the stand or you can schedule a time slotSee you there! 🤙 

This month marks Earth Day 🌏. We’d love to hear about how you are aiding sustainability in your property. Tell us your story and for every post in the below thread, Mews and Hotels for Trees will plant a tree on your behalf. 🌳 Here are some stories of how other Mews customers are delivering their vision of sustainability:  The Emerald Stay team believes that the future of travel will be more human, local, and carbon mindful – all driven by great tech and innovation. That’s why every employee, including the founder, took part in a sustainability workshop that educates companies on the science behind climate change and empowers them to act.  The team replaced single-use items with sustainable products across all properties and partnered with Sadhana Forest, a volunteer-based organization focused on reforestation. How does it work? After calculating carbon emissions, Emerald Stay matches the cost to offset and help rehabilitate nature. All these eco-conscious efforts are supervised by a

Celebrating World Book Day - what would you recommend? April 23rd is World Book Day. 📚 On this annual celebration of books and authors, I thought this community forum would be a great place to share our own recommendations of the great books we are reading, favorite books from the past, what book has had most impact on your life, etc.To kick things off, here’s some book reviews from our key speakers at Unfold 23: Richard Valtr, Founder, Mews:“Artificial Intelligence Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell. It's very readable and it gives you a really good insight into both the history of artificial intelligence and essentially where most of the world is.With all the fuss and hype around ChatGPT, it's important for most people to understand how some of these large language models have come to dominate our thinking about AI. Most people have the mindset of it being like Skynet and it's going to do all of its thinking for us, whereas what people are missing is the idea of how worki

Mews’ founder Richard talks of how hotels can and need to capitalise on their real estate to keep ahead.@community, would be great to hear how you’re innovating in this regard and what results you’re seeing from it. Who wants to kick us off by posting a comment below?  Hotels are eating real estate: the future of mixed-use spaces and service-driven propertyby Richard Valtr   In 2011, Marc Andreessen's landmark essay, Software is Eating the World, boldly proclaimed that every company would eventually become a software company. Fast forward to 2023, and the world of real estate is undergoing a similar transformation, with hotels at the helm.  The future of real estate will be characterized by mixed-use spaces and a service-driven approach, with every property incorporating elements of hospitality to meet the evolving needs of occupants and visitors.  The rise of mixed-use real estate Mixed-use real estate has been steadily gaining traction for years, combining residential, commercial, an

Mews’ Richard Valtr talks about new definitions of success in digital transformation in this year’s Hopsitality Yearbook:Hospitality industry insiders must think holistically about their properties and favilities, redefine metrics of success and create a new standard of excellence. Instead of treating their businesses as simply rooms, Valtr suggests operators should think creatively about generating new and ancillary revenue streams, such as memberships to restaurants, services, parking spaces, and fitness areas. Incentivizing guests to stay on-site is key to capturing their full spend, offering grab-and-go meals, co-working spaces, networking events, gym access, and memberships.Read the full article here The insights showcased in this year’s yearbook are derived from 55+ contributing authors, including notable industry thought leaders Michael Levie, Matthias Huettebraeuker, Markus, Venzin, Floor Bleeker, Willy Legrand, and many others. Key contributing organizations include EHL Busine

Last month, we released the 2022 H2 data dive - a thorough report on the trends recorded for the last 6 months and glimpses of what is to come in 2023. What the data says about occupancy:Year-on-year, single night stays have decreased by 3% and 3-7 night stays have increased by the same amount. During most of H1, apartments has a clear occupancy lead over hotels and hostelsDownload the report to see more trends in other areas such as rate types, RevPAR and chargebacks.Mews 2022 H2 Data Dive

Unfold is an annual hospitality tech forum hosted and curated by Mews. The fourth edition will bring together hundreds of the industry's most inspiring innovators, visionaries and thinkers to the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam.This year's theme: The New Standard in Hospitality.When is it? Tuesday 4th AprilFeatured speakers include:Charlie McGregor, Founder and CEO, The Social Hub Kari Anna Fiskvik, Vice President of Technology, Nordic Choice Hotels Matt Welle, CEO, Mews Richard Valtr, Founder, Mews James Bishop, VP, Ecosystems & Strategic Partnerships, SiteMinder James Lemon, Travel, Transport and Leisure Lead, Stripe See the full speaker list here Book your ticket today!  

This is a day in the Mews history books and you might have already seen the announcement but just in case you missed it:Mews closes $185 Million in fundraising to transform the hospitality industry for brands and their guests. 🥂🎉 The Series C fundraising brings the total amount raised to date to over $225 million. Latest funding led by Kinnevik and Goldman Sachs Asset Management; Akhil Chainwala from Kinnevik and Kirk Lepke from Goldman Sachs to join the board. Funding will be used to accelerate product innovation, global expansion and consolidation through its Mews Ventures arm. Take a look at the press release here and read what Richard has to say on the news here.More coverage here (that we haven’t written ourselves!) if you want to check it out:BloombergTech CrunchSkiftAnd, finally, in Richards words:All aboard the Mews rocket ship. 🚀

Skift.com, a trusted online publisher of hotel news, interviewed Andrea Grigg, who leads the global asset management practice at JLL’s Hotels & Hospitality Group, which manages about 90 hotel assets worth more than $6.8 billion.This is an interesting read on her insights of what’s to come in 2023 for the industry:“If all the clouds on the horizon come together and make a storm, your team needs to be able to adapt,” Grigg said.She notes that hotels can respond well by flexing up and down in rate and operational costs and how to keep labour costs in check.Read this article, published 7th Nov 2022

Snapchat! I have to say, I’ve never used it - I believe it’s something for the youngsters.But this articles looks into Snapchat as a valuable tool for hospitality marketing, especially if your clientele errs towards the Z-gen demographic.‘’Snapchat is a highly visual platform; hotels with beautiful amenities and eye-catching rooms can really stand out with high-quality photos and videos.’’Read more in this article from Hotel Tech Report, published 12th Oct 2022 Community question: Is anyone in this community using Snapchat successfully to drive brand awareness?