HANYC Names ICE Official Education Partner
As part of the partnership, ICE will offer three scholarships for its Hospitality & Hotel Management program and one scholarship for the Culinary Arts program annually. America’s oldest hotel...
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The Latest Hotel Technology Trends
Take the history of hotel keys. First, they were actual mechanical keys, then they eventually became credit-card-like keys that needed to be swiped or inserted, and now they’re usually the same kind...
Hotels Go Even Greener with Eco-Friendly Strides
Single-use plastics are defined by the United Nations Environment Program as “waste products of a throwaway culture that treats plastic as a disposable material rather than a valuable resource,” which...
This Hospitality Grad Manages a Castle Hotel
In Japan, he gained experience in human resources, marketing and operations with a hospitality company called Hirakawa Shoji Co Ltd. and was a general manager at Sankara Hotel & Spa for a year. When...
Hospitality Careers Offer Suite Perks
Several ICE alumni have found careers in hotels — some as chefs and others in hotel dining management and concierge services — that offer rich rewards. For starters, hotel careers reportedly offer...
Lyon Porter’s Top Hospitality Management Tips
On opening Urban Cowboy: I was in real estate, and I’d always wanted to develop my own building. You live in buildings in New York — a lot of them are very sterile and don’t have much soul to the...
The World’s First Vegan Hotel Suite is Here
Veganism is more than a plant-based diet; it’s become well known and accepted as an entire lifestyle free of animal ingredients, products, byproducts or testing. According to GlobalData.com, the...
2019 Hotel Trend Predictions
Laura shares the scoop on hotel trends for 2019, from ditching fussy room gadgets to the hotel version of a West Elm. Hotels Partnering with Lifestyle Brands Laura says that hotels are now being tied...
Restaurant Design Advice from a Los Angeles Expert
“Restaurants are tough business models,” Alexis explains. She goes through a process of discovery to determine what is at the core ⎯ as she describes it, the deep essence and ethos ⎯ of each brand...
A Hotel GM’s Hospitality Career Advice
Tourism, Travel & Hospitality Management students gleaned these insightful tips for success from Marlene's life story of leaving school at age 16, advancing at a bank in Australia and eventually...
Life as a New York City Concierge
“The most valuable lesson was how the hospitality industry is forever changing due to globalization and technology, with trends like ecotravel,” Ritin adds. “We should always be up-to-date with trends...
A Week of Eats in LA
Day 1 We start at the beach in Santa Monica, getting in late afternoon and heading straight to the pool for Bloody Marys and salads. Shutters On the Beach is the place to stay. It’s right on the beach...