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Croatian island to get new boutique hotel in 2018
Croatia: A boutique hotel with a rooftop infinity pool is to be built on the island of Krk next year.
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New owner for Wellington's Ohtel
New Zealand: Village Accommodation Group has completed the acquisition of the Ohtel on Wellington's Oriental Parade.
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• The latest stats showing that Airbnb now gets more web traffic than any hotel site or OTA are truly sobering for anybody in the hospitality industry.
I can still remember just a few years ago when the majority of a hotel conference audience, when asked for a show of hands, hadn't even heard of Airbnb. And even now I occasionally hear owners or operators saying that Airbnb isn't a threat to them. For those people I have just three words. Yes it is.
Airbnb now has more visitors to its site than Booking.com, Hotels.com, Marriott or Hilton. And its visitor numbers for Q1 2017 were up 31 per cent - nearly a third - on the same period the previous year.
It is not sitting on its laurels either, constantly launching new initiatives to gain market share in every element of the travel sector, whether that be by beefing up its business travel offer or forming alliances with national tourist boards.
In my opinion, Airbnb has been the single biggest disruptive influence on the travel industry in the last 50 years and hoteliers need to get their heads out of the sand and look at how they can best work alongside the sharing economy platforms.
Boutique Hotel News was delighted to attend the recent Phocuswright Europe conference in Amsterdam. Click here to see a video interview with Airbnb's managing director EMEA, Olivier Gremillon.
We'd like to hear from hoteliers with experience of listing rooms on Airbnb and similar for a future article on Boutique Hotel News. If you'd like to contribute, please email george@boutiquehotelnews.com.
George Sell, editor, Boutique Hotel News
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| Event review: 2017 Boutique and Lifestyle Hotel Summit
BHN looks at the highlights and key learnings from the 2017 Boutique and Lifestyle Hotel Summit.
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| Castle Leslie Estate - growing a heritage hotel business
This month, Castle Leslie Estate in Co. Monaghan, Ireland, celebrates its 25th anniversary. Fionnuala Bland looks at the changes it has seen in a quarter of a century.
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