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NHS staff praise NHS Homes scheme and share their stories
Reading Time: 4 minutesUK: Staff who have used the NHS Homes scheme, which was launched by the short-term accommodation sector to offer free homes and amenities to NHS key workers, have expressed their gratitude and homeowners have explained why they have offered their properties to the programme. The scheme now has over 2,500 properties available for use across the […]
TurnKey Vacation Rentals facing class action lawsuit
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: American property management firm TurnKey Vacation Rentals is facing a class action lawsuit due to its return policy in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The suit was filed in West Texas federal district court and is currently representing at least 50 renters. According to lead counsel Joe Sauder, the lawsuit’s intention is to […]
KAYAK and OpenTable cuts to affect 400 employees
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Booking Holdings brands, KAYAK and OpenTable, have announced that 400 employees will be affected by layoffs, furloughs or reductions in their working hours, in an email obtained by Skift. The CEO of both brands, Steve Hafner, attributed the cuts to the drops in revenue caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, and told staff they had […]
Airbnb scraps apartment suite plans at Rockefeller Center
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: A year to the day after acquiring ten floors at 75 Rockefeller Plaza in New York to operate “high-end apartment-style suites with a diverse mix of amenities”, Airbnb is cancelling its agreement with landlords RXR Realty at the proposed development. Owing to to fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, plans to create 200 luxury hotel rooms […]
TripAdvisor to lay off close to 25 per cent of its global workforce
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS: Online travel company TripAdvisor is to lay off 900 employees — accounting for almost 25 per cent of its global workforce — in a “significant” cost-cutting exercise, CEO and co-founder, Stephen Kaufer, revealed in a company blog post. In light of the coronavirus pandemic, TripAdvisor is making 600 of its employees in the United […]
New hospitality tracker sees first quarter sales drop by 21.3 per cent
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: The UK hospitality sector saw sales decline by 21.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2020, as the country and the industry moved into Covid-19 lockdown, figures from the newly launched UKHospitality Quarterly Tracker reveal. In the most comprehensive analysis of the UK hospitality market ever undertaken, combining data from all sub-segments of hospitality, […]