Tag: travelers inn & suites

Inside UXUA Hotel’s Experimental Food Lab in Brazil

When you book a luxury stay on the coast of Brazil, you might be expecting a sprawling resort with seaside Champagne service. What you’ll find at UXUA Casa Hotel & Spa is a decidedly different experience, but instead, something much more rare. This boutique hotel is made up of an array of repurposed colonial casas, many of which have been part of the surrounding community for decades. Nestled right in the heart of Trancoso, a beach town in the state of Bahia, some of the houses are directly on the grassy square that acts as the center for local nightlife.… Read More

The Impact of Local Community Engagement on Hotel Food & Beverage Revenue and Diversification Strategy

A priority of hotels worldwide is, quite naturally, attracting and catering to the needs of guests. Seldom do hotels invest heavily in strategies to cater to non-guests. However, according to Dr Sung Gyun Mun, Dr Linda Woo of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a co-author, hotels’ food and beverage (F&B) departments can bring in big money by attracting customers from local communities – not just tourists. With important implications for businesses in the post-COVID-19 era of tourism recovery, the authors suggest that hotels may be able to use their F&B… Read More

NSW pub Gerogery Hotel responds to troll’s vile Google review

A country pub has been praised for its response to a ‘pathetic keyboard warrior’ who left a vile review online. Gerogery Hotel, in the rural NSW town of Gerogery, 20 minutes north of Albury, received a one-star review from a man named Robert who blasted the pub for serving a large meal to an “obese” customer last week. The meal, which consisted of 1kg of steak, 500g of chips and four servings of salad was served to pubgoer James Steer as part of the pub’s popular meal “challenges”, where customers test themselves to see if they can eat a large… Read More

Inside Fort Worth’s fancy Bowie House: How’s the food?

Bowie House, a new Auberge Resorts hotel in North Texas, feels specifically suited for Fort Worth. But make it fancy. Some of the beef at the hotel restaurant Bricks and Horses comes from the 6666 Ranch about 200 miles away, which Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan recently acquired. Fort Worth-raised Sheridan’s fingerprints are all over this town, whether his team is filming a scene locally or purchasing property, like the famous Cattlemen’s Steak House in the Stockyards, which he now co-owns. So of course Fort Worth’s Auberge property would sell Sheridan’s certified Angus prime beef. Further, the hotel is owned by… Read More