2015 - HospitalityLawyer.com®

Travel, Hospitality, & Leisure Industry: 2015 Outlook

by Guy Langford in Lodging. Posted April 29, 2015

Backed by the current growth momentum, Travel, Hospitality, & Leisure (THL) companies are heading strong into 2015. Amid pent-up demand, it’s important that companies leverage technology to effectively respond to newer forms of competition and a globe-trotting wired customer. Guy Langford, Vice Chairman and U.S. Travel, Hospitality and Leisure leader, Deloitte LLP, shares his thoughts ...

Preparing Today for Future Cyber Risks

by Alvarez & Marsal in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Safety & Security, Technology. Posted April 29, 2015

While companies around the world are experiencing numerous benefits from online transactions and interactions, the accompanying risks remain less visible. Cyber threats continue to evolve and rapidly expand, in terms of sophistication, complexity and the scale of their consequences. Lone hackers have been replaced by well-funded and organized cyber-crime networks, state-backed groups, terrorist organizations, and ...

Google Flights and Google Hotels: Friend or Foe to Airlines and Hoteliers?

by Ryan Rudnansky in Travel. Posted April 24, 2015

The latest update to the Google Flights price comparison tool, as well as the introduction of Google Hotels, has the world buzzing, with many praising the user experience. The flexibility of Google Flights is unprecedented in terms of providing the cheapest and best flight routes available to a specific or general destination. It includes filters ...

Recent Development in FTC vs. Wyndham Underscore Importance of Cybersecurity Vigilance in the Hospitality Industry

by Post & Schell in Legal, Technology. Posted April 23, 2015

On Friday, March 27, the parties in FTC vs. Wyndham – a key data security case with the potential to deeply impact the hospitality industry’s cyber-security practices – filed special supplemental briefs that the Third Circuit Court of Appeals requested during oral arguments earlier in the month. A key question at issue in the case: is the industry ...

Public-Private Partnerships and the Hospitality Industry

by Lawrence Bartelemucci in Hotel Development, Human Resources, Lodging. Posted April 10, 2015

Public-private partnerships (P3s) are not a new phenomenon, but they are an expanding and increasingly necessary one. As local governments compete with each other for tourism dollars and a finicky and demanding workforce, the hospitality industry has become a focus of potential P3s as a way to revitalize fatigued districts and compete with the city ...

Don’t Forget Copiers, Scanners and Fax Machines in Your Data Security Program

by Benjamin Lambiotte in Legal, Safety & Security, Technology. Posted March 23, 2015

Current generation multifunction printer/scanner/copier devices are convenient, inexpensive, and very popular. Often overlooked is the fact that most modern printers, copiers, and scanners have many of the same attributes of computers, and are just as vulnerable to the same kind of cyber exploits and attacks as computers. A truly comprehensive data security and privacy risk ...

Importance of Business Income From Dependent Properties Coverage

by Jared Zola in Insurance & Loss Prevention. Posted March 18, 2015

On February 11, 2014, John Henitz and I spoke on a panel at the @Hospitality_Law 2014 Conference discussing maximizing coverage for large property and business interruption claims. We presented a hypothetical scenario in which Acme Hospitality is a full service Real Estate company that owns several hotels, including one in Galveston, Texas that a hurricane ...

DOL Issues Final Rule Providing FMLA Rights to All Workers in Legal Same-Sex Marriages

by Victoria Zeller in Human Resources. Posted March 16, 2015

The Department of Labor issued its Final Rule on Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) rights on February 25, joining the Internal Revenue Service in adopting the “place of celebration”/“state of celebration” test. By virtue of this change, FMLA rights now extend to all workers in legal same-sex marriages regardless of the law of the state ...

How Does the NLRB’s Ruling on Non-Business Use of Email Affect Your Business?

by Victoria Slade in Human Resources. Posted March 4, 2015

As you may have heard, the NLRB recently ruled that employees who are given access to their employer’s email system for their jobs must be permitted to use that email system during nonworking time to engage in protected activity, such as forming a union or discussing terms and conditions of employment. This ruling applies to ...

Yikes! Ransomware Could Take Over Your Hard Drive

by Peter Vogel in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Travel. Posted March 3, 2015

Once data is held for ransom, there’s no guaranteed way to reclaim it — not even payment. Ransomware’s victims typically are those with the least protection. To avoid becoming a target, install strong security tools on your computer and mobile devices, back up data to a reliable cloud service, keep passwords in a secure location, ...

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