By Jessica Litman April 28, 2020 at 10:45 am Editor’s note: This article was originally published on March 16, 2020. US Patent and Trademark Office v Booking.com raises the question of whether a company can create a registrable trademark by combining a generic non-protectable term with a generic top-level domain …
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Trustdata Releases Report on China’s Online Hotel Booking Industry
According to the report, the tourism market in China is booming like from China GDP per capita exceeded 10,000 USD and its national tourists have exceeded 6 billion individual trips in 2019. Compared with 20 a few years ago, total domestic tourism expenditure in China increased by 20.5 times for …
Read More »Marcus Hotels & Resorts announces updates to its current operations – Hotel-Online
Marcus Hotels & Resorts Announces Updates to Current Operations Marcus Hotels and Resorts | April 09, 2020 MILWAUKEE – Marcus Hotels & Resorts®, a division of The Marcus company (NYSE: MCS), is temporarily closing additional properties in its portfolio. This decision includes all of the following Company-owned hotels that are …
Read More »How to make working from home work for you – hotel-online
By Béatrice Venturini From a no-no to the new normal In his TED Talk 2017, British economist Nicholas Bloom jokes about how his mission to encourage Work from Home (WFH) initially met with derogatory remarks such as “to escape from the house”, ” work abroad ” or simply, “To be …
Read More »An initial checklist for temporary hotel closures – Hotel-Online
Alex Sogno | April 06, 2020 Through Alex sogno During the COVID-19 crisis, many hotels will unfortunately have to shut down their operations and temporarily close. This may be out of necessity if your forecast suggests that the losses incurred at these low occupancy levels are not sustainable. While closing …
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