Operations

First Impressions Are Where Brand Becomes Behaviour

By Marta Maluquer | Feb 26, 2026

Designing the Guest Journey When you bring a hotel or brand to life, designing the guest journey determines whether aspiration ...

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Crafting Consistent Hotel Arrival Experiences

By Lisa Zoretich | Feb 20, 2026

You Don’t Get a Second First Impression The hotel arrival experience sets the emotional tone for the entire stay. You ...

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Enhancing Hotel Guest Experience Through Pre-Arrival Personalization

By Lisa Zoretich | Feb 13, 2026

Aligning Teams, Systems, and Insight Before the Guest Walks Through the Door Hotel pre-arrival personalisation begins the moment a reservation ...

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Why User Acceptance Testing Matters for Hotels

By Lisa Zoretich | Feb 10, 2026

Why operations must help shape the systems they will use every day User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is where system decisions ...

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Brand Leadership – How the GM Protects the Brand

By Linda Griffin | Feb 5, 2026

The GM as the Point of Truth The brand is not protected in boardrooms or creative presentations. It is protected ...

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AI-Powered SOPs: Balancing Speed and Expertise

By Lisa Zoretich | Jan 30, 2026

Turning generated SOPs into standards that teams can actually use AI has transformed how quickly teams can produce SOPs. With ...

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Hotel SOP Design: Balancing Detail and Frontline Judgment

By Lisa Zoretich | Jan 26, 2026

Creating procedures that guide action without killing ownership Standard Operating Procedures divide opinion across the industry.Some teams view SOPs as ...

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Mastering SOP Development and Training Timing

By Lisa Zoretich | Jan 20, 2026

How to plan realistic timelines for SOP development and hotel training material Hotel projects often underestimate the time required to ...

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Turning Vision into Daily Reality

By Lisa Zoretich | Jan 16, 2026

From Brand Promises to Real Guest Experiences Great brands grow from daily actions, not boardrooms.As we begin 2026, I am ...

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Importance of Motivational Shift Briefings

By Lisa Zoretich | Jan 25, 2021

I have sat in 1000’s of shift briefings, and I cannot tell you how often not only was I bored ...