2015 - HospitalityLawyer.com®

Are Asian Airlines Safe?

by Rich Thomaselli in Safety & Security, Travel. Posted October 26, 2015

A close look at the records shows most have sterling safety and service standards The World’s Best Airline has some of the industry’s most modern wide-body aircraft. The World’s Best Airline has nearly 90 new aircraft on order, an invoice that will total more than $200 billion when it’s all said and done. The World’s ...

Report Reveals Some Salary Trends among General Counsel, In-House Lawyers

by Ed Silverstein in Legal. Posted October 22, 2015

The inside counsel market seems to be pretty stable, according to Major, Lindsey & Africa’s Miriam Frank. There are a few notable insights into the market for general counsel and in-house attorneys from a recent report released by Major, Lindsey & Africa. “The [inside counsel] market seems to be pretty stable,” Miriam Frank, vice president ...

Restaurant industry leader Danny Meyer ends tipping. Who will follow?

by Maura Judkis in Food & Beverage, Human Resources. Posted October 15, 2015

If you happen to have a late-November reservation at the Modern, Danny Meyer’s two-Michelin-star restaurant in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, here’s some good news: When the bill comes, you’ll no longer have to do any fuzzy math on a full stomach and a few glasses of champagne. Meyer, head of the Union Square ...

Five Evolving Issues Confronting Employers in the Hospitality Industry

by Jeffrey Ruzal in Human Resources, Legal. Posted October 14, 2015

As the hospitality industry continues to grow and expand, one common goal is to provide all-inclusive experiences for visitors and patrons. Unfortunately, given the breadth of the goods and services offered to the public and the workforce employed to supply these experiences, the hospitality industry is also providing plaintiffs’ attorneys and government regulators with their ...

Case Study: Should a Hotelier Invest in a New Kind of Online Travel Agency?

by Chekitan Dev in Travel. Posted October 14, 2015

Lotta Tindal, the chief marketing officer for the Dutch hospitality group Ervaring Hotels & Resorts, hadn’t wanted to come to the presentation, but Gerard Bakker, Ervaring’s CFO, had twisted her arm. “These things are nothing more than glorified sales pitches,” she whispered to him. “Stop acting like a teenager,” he joked. “I’m trying to pay ...

Credit Card Fraud Liability Shift is Here

by Benjamin Lambiotte in Technology. Posted October 14, 2015

Most credit and debit cards in the U.S., and the point of sale terminals and ATMs that read them, still use “magnetic stripe” technology. Magnetic stripes are obsolete and relatively insecure, allowing fraudulent practices such as “skimming” (acquiring cardholder and account data by “reading” the strip, and then making fraudulent transactions or counterfeit cards). Magnetic ...

Amtrak says to suspend national rail service without safety extension: letter

by Thomson Reuters in Legal, Technology, Travel. Posted October 8, 2015

Amtrak has told U.S. lawmakers that it will suspend service on its national network in mid-December unless Congress extends a Dec. 31 deadline for implementing advanced safety technology, according to an Oct. 5 letter from Amtrak reviewed by Reuters. The letter, addressed to Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, says service ...

Europe’s Migrant Crisis Sparks Fear of Radicalized Presence

by Security Strategies Today in Safety & Security, Travel. Posted October 2, 2015

With arrivals at more than half-million strong and growing, is ISIS exploiting the crisis to gain a tactical advantage? With staggering speed, the migration crisis in Europe has grown in 2015 from a steady trickle of families huddled in rickety boats to the largest refugee crisis on the continent since World War II. So far, ...

A Guest, Tenant or Transient Guest…that is the question!

by Stephen Barth in Legal. Posted October 1, 2015

In the lodging area, a guest can be classified as being either a transient guest i.e., a customer who rents property for a relatively short period of time with no intent of establishing permanent residency, or a tenant who rents real property for an extended period of time with the intent of establishing permanent residency. ...

Long Term Hotel Guests Might Not Be So Easy to Remove

by Eckert Seamans in Legal. Posted September 28, 2015

co-authored by Sandy Garfinkel and Eric J. Zagrocki Hotel owners and operators may be surprised to learn that that under many states’ laws, hotel guests who stay for lengthy amounts of time may be deemed to have become tenants rather than hotel guests. These hotel companies may be in for a surprise if it ever becomes necessary to ...

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