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🌊 Marrakech tops KAYAK.fr's autumn travel trends for French travelers, followed by Bangkok and Tokyo. International flight prices have dropped by an average of 9% this autumn compared to last year. Optimal booking period is September 16-22, 2024, for international flights and November 18-24 for domestic flights. The data reflects preferences for the Toussaint school holidays (October 19 - November 3). Bali also makes the top 10.

📅 CCI Paris Ile-de-France will hold the "Recruteur.e.s, faites pas genre!" conference on October 1, 2024, from 6 PM to 8 PM, focusing on promoting diversity in the professional world. The event is part of "15 jours pour l’emploi en Ile-de-France" and aims to encourage companies toward better gender diversity, a key factor for performance and innovation. Former minister Elisabeth Moreno will deliver a keynote address. The conference will cover the significance of diversity for company performance, recruitment challenges, the impact on brand image, and strategies to promote diversity and combat stereotypes.

🏃 SNCF, the French railway operator, is accelerating its immersion domain by launching a tender for custom VR application development, to begin in March 2025. Five years after starting its AR/VR lab in 2019, SNCF seeks a provider to create VR apps for training, industrial metaverse, and augmented reality-assisted maintenance. Submissions for the tender, open to SMEs, are due by October 3, 2024, with 10-15 candidates to be shortlisted.

📈 During the IFTM Top Resa 2024 event, Genial's Co-founder and CEO, Erwan Simon, was interviewed. Genial, a company specializing in artificial intelligence, won a start-up contest and will be supported by Orchestra in the upcoming months, also anticipating a fundraising event.

🍴 Renowned Michelin-starred Chef Thierry Marx curates the menu at Maison Delano Paris's new restaurant, "Delano Café by Thierry Marx," situated in the historical Faubourg Saint-Honoré district. The eatery offers a thoughtful and simplified gourmet experience, set in a Mediterranean-inspired decor that evokes an eternal summer vibe. The café provides a cozy and intimate setting, extending its warm ambiance amidst the vibrant Parisian atmosphere, serving French cuisine with Mediterranean influences throughout the day.

🏠 On September 17, GHR attended a meeting with Hervé de Lépinau, deputy of Vaucluse (RN), concerning the tourism section of the 2025 Finance Bill. GHR advocated for Atout France's focus on promotion rather than regulation of hotels. The group opposed any new taxes on the sector and requested the continuation of tip exemption, in effect since 2022. GHR also sought to maintain the tax regime for furnished tourist rentals and proposed VAT collection on such rentals, potentially generating €1.6 billion annually.

💰 Jean Patrick Thiry, Fondateur de Blue sarl, explique l'importance du Revenue Management pour augmenter le chiffre d'affaires par chambre disponible (RevPAR). Un établissement appliquant ces stratégies peut réaliser une augmentation de chiffre d'affaires d'au moins 10%. La clé est d'adapter le prix aux variations journalières de la demande, en utilisant des KPI comme le RevPAR et en prenant en compte le coût marginal par chambre et le tarif minimum. WuBook's Zak, un logiciel de gestion hôtelière, peut se connecter via API à des programmes de Revenue Management et permet une segmentation tarifaire.

🏠 At IFTM 2024, CEO Clément Vergnolle and Marketing Director David Ferreira of Slotr showcased blockchain experiments with vacation rental stakeholders and territories, highlighting the technology's potential to revolutionize the sector by enabling the resale of overnight stays through "tokenization.

🏂 Sunweb, European ski tour operator, reports a 5% increase in winter holiday bookings for the 2024-2025 season compared to last year, with significant growth in the Belgian and British markets. French destinations like La Plagne and Les Arcs in Paradiski are most popular, followed by Maurienne resorts such as Valloire, Saint-François-Longchamp, and Les Sybelles. The Southern Alps areas, including Les 2 Alpes and the Dévoluy massif, also show strong dynamics.

🏨 Hotel Management Agreements (HMAs) now average 17.4 years as of 2024, up by four years since 2005. Based on a JLL and Baker McKenzie survey covering about 400 HMAs over 20 years, including 145 contracts from 2018-2023, the Maldives and Japan average 26 and 23 years respectively, while Australia's average is 15. Base management fees dropped from 1.7% to 1.6% of revenue, but sales and marketing costs are rising, with more operators charging 3% or more of total revenue. Performance termination clauses are included in 93% of contracts.