7 Hotels Opened in 2016 Throughout Orange County
Orange County has seen a recent spike in hotel growth throughout 2016, so what does 2017 have in store for us? Hotel development in Orange County saw another year of growth and development as many properties opened their doors, changed hands in ownership, or underwent massive renovations in order to become appealing once again. Seven…
Read Article →Construction in Downtown LA Is Largest in a Century
Despite the downtown construction boom as of late, the pace of development citywide still lags behind of what history shows. The towering Metropolis complex and the Wilshire Grand have changed the Downtown LA skyline considerably–both of those buildings are nearly complete. There are plenty of other major projects on the way and the pace of…
Read Article →Amazon & Wynn Las Vegas Equip Rooms with Echo
The future is now, and hotels are embracing it by bringing voice-activated Echo into each of its rooms, allowing guests to use their voice to control the room. Wynn Las Vegas and Amazon have announced they plan to equip all 4,748 rooms at the Wynn Las Vegas with Amazon Echo, Amazon’s hand-free voice-controlled speaker. The…
Read Article →Interim Venue to Replace Irvine Meadows
A new music center will be constructed to bring a sense of outdoors back into music venues. FivePoint Communities Management Inc. in Aliso Viejo said that part of the property owned by them would be available for the construction of a great “interim amphitheater,” pending–of course–approval by the city of Irvine. FivePoint partnered with Live…
Read Article →How to Reduce and Avoid Hospitality Loss
The traveling and hospitality industries are a rather high-risk business due to the risk they run of succumbing to fraud. Hospitality industries run the risk of fraud because of factors like high average ticket amounts and long fulfillment time horizons compound with high average chargeback rates in order to create above average losses to fraud….
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