Hoteliers face stress, program offers help
LIKE MANY IN the hotel industry, Silpa Patel grew up in the business, the child of hard-working immigrant parents. And, also like many in...
Houston hotelier learns valuable lessons from various challenges
WHEN HOUSTON HOTELIER Dina Patel looks back over the past year, she’ll have carved another notch in a long timeline of changes. Most were...
‘A Busy 10 Years’ for Once-Troubled Red Roof
AT FIRST SKIM, an article about the opening of Red Roof’s first soft-branded hotel in downtown Chicago may read like a typical story about...
Windy City Debut
THE ST. CLAIR Hotel celebrated its hard opening on Oct. 1 in downtown Chicago. The 208-room hotel is a former Red Roof Inn which...
New Opportunity in Extended Stay
RED ROOF IN AUGUST announced its entry into the extended-stay business with the launch of HomeTowne Studios by Red Roof.The economy segmented brand joins...
Asian American hoteliers raise the Red Roof
ASIAN AMERICANS COMPRISE most Red Roof’s franchisees. A few years ago, after launching its strategy to grow aggressively by franchising, the company turned to...
‘Step Up or Step Out’
ZINA PATEL OWNS and operates The Red Roof Inn in Bakersfield, California, which upgraded in 2016 with the brand’s NextGen redesign. Zina and her...
High-Premium Partners
RAJEEV SAXENA IS not trained in hotel management, but he and his business partner, Suresh Patel, for several years made a successful go of...
IDeaS Revenue Solutions rolls out first voice-based rate-management program
WHILE CONSUMERS AND third-party vendors might be going gaga over guest-facing voice technology, other companies are exploring how to use voice to streamline hotel...
Voice of the Future
SEEMS LIKE EVERYBODY involved in hotel technology these days is talking about voice. And the more people talk, the more they learn. Just like...
