Celebrating 10 Years, HFTP Opens Applications for Entrepreneur 20X 2025

Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®) is pleased to celebrate a decade of its premier hospitality technology start-up pitch competition, Entrepreneur 20X (E20X), first held at HITEC 2015 in Austin, Texas. For its 10th year, E20X 2025 will be at HITEC 2025 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Applications to compete are now...

Raines Expands Southeast Presence with Addition of Fairfield Inn & Suites Whitsett Greensboro East in Whitsett, NC

Raines, a leading hospitality management, development, and investment organization, has added Fairfield Inn & Suites Whitsett Greensboro East in Whitsett, NC, to its management portfolio. This is the third hotel that Raines is managing for Wilmington, NC-based developer Clarendon Properties.Located along I-40/I-85 at 3020 Hendren Rd, Whitsett, NC 27377, Fairfield...

Templeton Garden, Miiro’s New London Property

Slated to open in April of 2025, Templeton Garden is located in a rare oasis of the cosmopolitan capital. The 156-room property is situated in leafy, historic Earl’s Court. Once a rural idyll, this neighborhood evolved into one of the capital’s most well-connected hubs, which Beatrix Potter, Alfred Hitchcock, and...

U.S. hotel results for week ending 25 January

As expected with the MLK Day holiday, the U.S. hotel industry reported mixed year-over-year comparisons, according to CoStar’s latest data through 25 January. CoStar is a leading provider of online real estate marketplaces, information and analytics in the property markets.

Don’t Make a Mythstake: Ten Business Myths You Can’t Believe

Some very popular business sayings are potentially detrimental to your organization. I recently wrote an article in my weekly Forbes.com column titled The Five Business Myths You Can’t Believe. It met with plenty of positive feedback, so I’m going to share those five myths with you, plus five more. I’ve...

AI search is eating the world’s organic traffic

HubSpot’s organic traffic has experienced a pretty scary decline, losing 75% of its traffic in 2024. For a company that built an SEO empire from 5 million to 10 million visits in just two years, this kind of plunge—from 10 million to 2.5 million—deserves attention.