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The New Hospitality Balancing Act: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence While Showing Care for Your Guests

Hospitality is all about people: making them feel welcome, comfortable, and appreciated. Excellent guest experiences often center around attentive service and a personal touch. So what would happen if some of that human element were augmented by artificial intelligence – or replaced by it? Would it improve service, or make it feel robotic? In this ...
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How to Safely Respond to Medical Episodes in a Hotel

At some point in their careers, hotel employees may be required to respond to a medical episode in one of the following circumstances: For the non-medical career professional, responding to a medical episode may be unnerving. The COVID-19 pandemic has added to the growing list of concerns of first responders along with the fear of ...
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Are You Properly Paying Your Bell Staff? 5 Top Questions for Hotels that Take a Tip Credit

Hotel staff often include a mix of tipped and non-tipped jobs, but following wage and hour rules isn’t always easy, particularly if employees perform a variety of tasks. Some workers — such as servers and bartenders — may neatly fit into the “tipped employee” category, but you may have more difficulty determining whether other workers ...
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Hotel Guest Privacy & Security: The “Keys” of a Secure Guest Experience

Moderated by Stephen Barth, this recorded presentation features a discussion about the crucial matter of key security and control in the hotel industry. Gain insights from Brad Bonnell, Principal at Hotel Security Group; Paul Frederik, President of Hospitality Security Advisors; Salvatore Caccavale, Principal at Global Hospitality Security Solutions; and Vince Vittatoe, CEO of Vittatoe Consulting. ...
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Fentanyl in Hotels

Drug overdoses are a significant problem in the United States, killing more than 107,000 people in 2021. Of those deaths, two-thirds were caused by fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine. While fentanyl is commonly used to manage severe pain, it is also abused, often added to heroin to ...
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Addictive Prescription drugs With Warning Labels.

Fentanyl in Hotels

Moderated by Stephen Barth, this recorded presentation features a discussion about fentanyl in the hospitality industry. Gain insights from Brad Bonnell, Principal at Hotel Security Group; Sherri Foster, Director of Safety & Security at Extended Stay America Management; Salvatore Caccavale, Principal at Global Hospitality Security Solutions; and Marshall Gilinsky, Shareholder at Anderson Kill. The presentation ...
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Hotel Safety and Security Risks to Owners, Operators & Insurance

The extent of liability to the owner, operator, and insurer of a hotel for any injury to a guest on the premises must always be determined on a case-by-case and state-by-state basis. However, there are some general principles that can be helpful in mitigating risk for each of the aforementioned parties when a guest is ...
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Branded Residence in Egypt Legal Framework

Introduction Egypt’s real estate market has been witnessing a great development during the last few years. New types of investment are increasingly evolving; among them is the branded residence associated with rental pool arrangements. In this type of investment, a luxury brand name of a hotel is licensed for use on a residential development. The ...
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Key Considerations for a Hotel Contemplating to House Healthcare Workers And/Or Transitioning into a Temporary Healthcare Facility

Every hotel owner or manager is in a different situation, however the one common denominator for the hospitality & leisure industry, is the epic negative impact this epidemic has had on the travel industry, with less people flying for both business and leisure, which has resulted in the vast majority of hotels across top 25 ...
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