August, 2015 - HospitalityLawyer.com®

10 Gadgets to Help You Travel

by Alison Crabb in Technology, Travel. Posted August 4, 2015

Dr. Livingstone cut his way across the jungles of Africa with little more than a shotgun and a shaving kit. You probably ought not to try and sneak a rifle through the airport, but here are some more modern travel gadgets that will come in handy for a boys’ adventure. If you have any other ...

Crackdown On Offshore Tax Evasion Not Slowing Down

by Robert Alter in Legal. Posted August 4, 2015

The Department of Justice Tax Division and the IRS have been ramping up an intense crackdown on offshore tax evasion, and the IRS’ reduced resources due to new budget cuts is having no effect on IRS enforcement initiatives in this area The Government’s reach has extended far beyond Switzerland (where it is pursuing criminal investigations ...

The Ridesharing Economy: Uber and Lyft Business Travel

by Mark Dauner in Travel. Posted August 4, 2015

Ridesharing Most everyone, by now, has heard of Uber and Lyft. In theory, the transportation services they provide make total sense from a consumer, employee and employer standpoint. A customer takes out his or her phone, loads the app, requests a ride and within minutes he or she is in a car on the way to the destination. There’s no doubt ...

Qantas Still the World’s Safest Airline

by Theodore Koumelis in Travel. Posted August 4, 2015

AirlineRatings.com the world’s only safety and product rating website has announced its top ten safest airlines for 2013 from the 448 it monitors. Top of the list is Qantas which has a fatality free record in the jet era (since 1951). Making up the top ten with seven stars for safety and in- flight product are ...

Risk Angles – Third-Party Risk

by Kristian Park in Hotel Development. Posted August 4, 2015

The use of third parties is nothing new — companies have worked with suppliers, outsourcers, licensees, agents, and the like for years. What has changed, however, is the frequency and scale of third-party use and the regulatory focus on how organizations are managing third parties to address the inherent risks. Kristian Park, partner and leader ...

Legally Speaking: Avoiding Bath Fall Liability

by Karen Morris in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Legal, Lodging, Safety & Security. Posted August 3, 2015

Some issues in hotel law come and go. Falls in slippery bathtubs have a sticking quality. Liability in this type of lawsuit can be avoided but it takes some attention to those porcelain bastions of cleanliness. In the typical case a guest is showering, loses his balance and falls. Because floors and walls surrounding showers are ...

Hotel Booking Fraud Increasing. What You Can Do

by Mark Dauner in Lodging. Posted August 3, 2015

Vacation travelers are always on the hunt for the best deal – particularly when it comes to hotels. For business travelers, the concept of open booking has been very popular in the last few years as travelers look to make choices outside of their company’s traditional managed travel program. With the prevalence of mobile online ...

Ensuring Worker Safety Abroad

by Petra Risk Solutions in Travel. Posted August 3, 2015

Ensuring Worker Safety Abroad: Although kidnapping of Americans abroad gets all the publicity, other risks await business travelers. Here’s what a business manager needs to know before sending an employee overseas. Before Traveling Research. Before a trip abroad, travelers should gain a general understanding of the country’s cultural, economic and political situation. The U.S. State Department issues Consular Information Sheets for every country of the world with ...

Clamping Down on “Apartment-Sharing” Website AirBNB

by Malcolm Seymour in Lodging, Travel. Posted August 3, 2015

New York State Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, has made waves in recent months by subpoenaing the popular “apartment-sharing” website AirBNB for information on more than 15,000 of the website’s hosts in New York City. The subpoenas were issued as part of Schneiderman’s campaign to enforce a 2010 New York law that took effect last year, clamping down ...

Global Equal Employment Opportunity Toolkit

by Don Dowling in Human Resources. Posted August 3, 2015

A one-size-fits-all American-style approach to EEO compliance does not work globally because American laws on discrimination, harassment and diversity are unique in the world. Internationally, though, discrimination and harassment laws vary widely and in many countries diversity is not an issue. These differences complicate the EEO initiatives that American multinationals would otherwise launch globally. This toolkit will address the broad scope of global discrimination programs. ...

Monthly Archives: August 2015 ( Page 5 )