Tueday 30 June, 2020 TOP STORY IHM launches ENGAGE corporate travel webinar series UK: International Hospitality Media (IHM) is launching a series of webinars in the run up to the third ENGAGE corporate travel buyer forum. LATEST NEWS If you missed our last newsletter....check out the stories below
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• One of the topics for our Urban Living webinar series will be the future of distribution (on July 29, sign up here), a subject which is often dominated by the OTA versus direct booking argument.
It's intriguing to see a new provider about to launch in New York City which is defiantly sticking to the direct-only school of thought. Dwell Optimal will launch later this summer in Manhattan, and hopes to expand to Austin, San Francisco and Chicago by the end of 2020.
The business was founded by Craig James, who spent five years living in corporate serviced apartments while working in the finance industry in Hong Kong, an experience which inspired the company launch: "You didn't have to deal with utilities, cable, all the monotonies of setting up your own unit, and it had a lifestyle equation that made sense," says James.
"Others are advertising inventory on OTAs," James added. "We don't do that. If you go to our
At a time when the future of business travel is looking extremely hard to predict, it's a brave venture to launch, but James has a great insight to his target customer's perspective, and I wish him every success.
• The next in our Urban Living webinar series takes place tomorrow, July 1st at 14:00 BST, when we will be discussing hotel funding and investment.
Joining me for the discussion will be:
Click here to register for the no cost webinar - we have more than 330 investors, lenders, hoteliers and suppliers signed up to date.
Future topics include:
If you are interested in being a guest speaker in any of the webinars, please contact george@internationalhositality.media
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