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Changed Your Hotel Name? How to Thoroughly Update Your Brand Online. Oct 5, 2012: When changing your hotel name, performing a full-on web overhaul is a must to avoid harming your site performance, web traffic, and overall revenue. There are many critical steps to follow when changing your hotel’s name. Before you do, notify your internet marketing agency of the upcoming name change and coordinate with them so that they can perform a smooth transition online.

Managing On the Edge of Chaos Oct 2, 2012: Change becomes chaotic when employees see and hear two or more different change methods and messages. A leader may attempt to adopt new thinking supported by the influx of new knowledge while the behavior of management may be delivering a totally different message and the same old methods. The newly empowered change agents (employees) equipped with new tools and new methods find themselves stuck in the middle of conflict between the new and the old methods and messages. This conflict throws the organization off balance and into chaos.

5 Reasons You Need an Advisory Board From Day One Sep 29, 2012: Before you have a company--or even a fully-formed idea--you can benefit from a formal or informal board of advisors. Observation from Hospitalityeducators.com - this is especially true in all types ands sizes of hotels and hospitality businesses.

Hotel Lock Firm's Security Fix Requires Hardware Changes For Millions Of Keycard Locks Sep 21, 2012: Hotel Lock Firm's Security Fix Requires Hardware Changes For Millions Of Keycard Locks

Good news for the security of hotels and travelers: Onity, whose keycard locks can be found on at least four million rooms around the world, has a plan to fix a security flaw that could allow hackers to insert a homemade device into its keycard locks and open them in seconds.
The bad news: the fix requires hardware changes to every affected lock. And for hotels who want more than a bandaid-style repair, Onity wants its customers to pay for it.

2012 Global Congress in Travel: Best Practices and Safety Solutions for Lodging Operators Sep 20, 2012

Hospitality Tip of the Week: Innovation strategy key for future success Sep 11, 2012: Insights from HospitalityEducators.com

A fundamental first step is to understand what innovation means. One way of defining it is the formula:

Innovation = Ideation + Implementation

Terrorism and Premises Liability for Hotels Sep 10, 2012: The Shadow of 9/11: Terrorism and Premises Liability for Hotels
The tragedies of September 11, 2001 generated numerous Congressional initiatives designed to prevent the recurrence of such devastating terrorist activity. However, most of these new laws and their attendant regulations have been directed toward better airport and aircraft security through the federalization of airport passenger and baggage screeners and increased aircraft security measures, but there are no new specific federal requirements for hotels.

What color is your hotel? Sep 7, 2012: What color is the threat level at your hotel? When an attack is highly likely, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has various rankings including ‘Elevated’ – Yellow, while the UK’s MI5 could declare a ‘Severe’ warning on such an occasion.

Hotel restructuring, workouts, receiverships and bankruptcy. The art of heavy lifting. Sep 3, 2012: Because bankruptcy lawyers tend to stay out of the limelight, we were pleased when my partner, Bob Kaplan -- a superb bankruptcy lawyer and a senior member of the Global Hospitality Group® -- was featured in the recent Northern California Super Lawyers® Magazine. Bob is the kind of lawyer who gets the best results for his clients in the least possible time, and he is not the kind of lawyer to toot his own horn. However, the work he does for our clients is critical to their success, and the expertise he brings to a troubled hotel can add significant value for all players.