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Travel Market Report
When the American Hotel & Lodging Association asked its members what they see on the horizon for 2017, 8,000 hotels responded. The results of the 2016 Lodging Survey, conducted by industry data provider STR, were released recently.
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IFMA's FMJ magazine
In part, organizational culture can loosely be defined as the way in which associates, leaders and groups behave and interact with each other. This can be extended to organizational policies and how they are enforced. It is this culture, along with organizational size, that greatly influences how organizations structure, utilize and optimize the FM function.
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Clean Link
A report, recently posted on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), finds that "climate change may worsen existing indoor environmental problems and indoor air quality (IAQ)."
One reason for this is the fact that we spend 90 percent of our time in an indoor environment such as a school, office, factory, or home. However, most of these buildings were built to meet environmental conditions at the time of construction, conditions that are changing rapidly due to climate change.
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Hotel Management
Daniel Marre thinks hospitality is in a strange place. Marre is partner and firm wide co-chair of international law firm Perkins Coie's leisure practice, and he is currently working with the developers of three hotels, two of which are in Chicago and one in Miami. All three are in the midst of renovations and rebrandings, but according to Marre they may be among the first of the last for some time.
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Hotel Management
Data theft is today's headline grabber with regards to hotel security, but the business of physically protecting guests, and your property, deserves just as much attention. HOTEL MANAGEMENT spoke with Hedgie Bartol, business development manager at security company Axis Communications, to discuss five mistakes hotels make when protecting themselves using cameras and other security tools.
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BOMI International via FMLink
Sometimes, paint may not cover as well as expected, or it may pose potential hazards. Property and facilities managers must be aware of and account for the potential problems that cause paint failures and hazards.
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Hotel Management
Renovations are a critical part of a hotel's life cycle. And in the towers of hotel business power, executives are accustomed to the process. But there are many folks at the property level who've never been exposed to a sweeping renovation.
That can cause operational and customer complications if not managed properly. Since I have never been through a hotel renovation either, I became curious about the strategies that should be in place to minimize disruptions and boost business once the last coat of paint dries.
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Proud Green Building
With winter on the way, frozen cooling tower valves and pipe leaks are likely to wreak havoc on commercial property water usage.
"As temperatures dropped below zero last year, we began receiving dozens of calls from property managers about their cooling tower's solenoid valve freezing in the fill position and water continuously flowing out," said David Taylor, senior vice president of WaterSignal, an Atlanta-based green technology company focused on water conversation and leak detection.
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Energy Manager Today
The emergence of electric vehicles (EVs) will impact energy and facility managers, who will be called on to provide the electricity to recharge employees' and, perhaps, guests' vehicles while they are in the building.
Things are progressing slowly. But EVs are on the road to becoming as common as gas-fueled vehicles.
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Skift
The world's largest hotel company is taking a cue from social media's "like" buttons.
Marriott Hotels has turned its 446-room hotel in the city center of Charlotte, North Carolina, into a lodging laboratory where the company will test new amenities, designs and procedures out on guests.
Around the hotel, Marriott installed 19 black and red "like" buttons about the size of hockey pucks, so that guests can press one when they are pleased with facilities such as the fitness center, restaurant, and rooms.
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