Covid-19 updates

Top 10 upcoming Hotel in Rwanda

kunle

The industry etimate half of the planned Hotel development in Africa will not open in 2020 [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Top-10-Hotel-Projects-002.pdf" download="Download" ]

A long slow recovery for the hospitality industry

kunle

An interview with Obinna Emelike of Businessday Newspaper, Trevor Ward, Managing Director, W Hospitality Group, x-rays the industry’s current position, the impact, trends, recovery among other related issues. [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Hotel-002.pdf" download="Download" ]

Using This Moment to Improve City Life Dialogue Blog Research Insight Gensler

kunle

Gensler.com’s article on using the moment to improve city life, by Nate Cherry. [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Using-This-Moment-to-Improve-City-Life-_-Dialogue-Blog-_-Research-Insight-_-Gensler.pdf" download="Download" ]

STR webinar on the performance of hotels in the MEA region.

kunle

These are the slides presented by STR at their webinar on 25th March 2020 on the performance of hotels in the MEA region. [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/STR-COVID-19-MEA-Webinar-25.3.2020.pdf" download="Download" ]

Safeguarding lives and our livelihood by McKinsey

kunle

Safeguarding our lives and livelihood: The imperative of our time by McKinsey & Company [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Safeguarding-lives-and-our-livelihood-by-McKinsey.pdf" download="Download" ]

NIGERIA - Implementation Guidance For Lock-down Policy - FRG

kunle

The federal government of Nigeria as part of the measures in place to limit the spread of COVID-19 gave an order effective 30 March 2020 at 23:00h that all organizations and businesses should shutdown operation, with a few exemptions such as organisations offering essential services. [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/NIGERIA-IMPLEMENTATION-GUIDANCE-FOR-LOCKDOWN-POLICY-FRG.pdf" download="Download" ]

McKinsey Scenarios

kunle

McKinsey’s COVID-19 scenarios for economic recovery, including in Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya. [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/McKinsey-Scenarios.pdf" download="Download" ]

How to navigate corona virus disruption in travel By Gino Engels Hospitality Net

kunle

Hospitality.net on how to navigate COVID-19 disruption in travel, by Gino Engels [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/How-to-navigate-coronavirus-disruption-in-travel-_-By-Gino-Engels-Hospitality-Net.pdf" download="Download" ]

How the World Will Look After the Coronavirus Pandemic -

kunle

Brian Stauffer’s article giving an insight on how the world will look after the COVID-19 pandemic for foreign policy, including short pieces from 9 foreign policy commentators [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/How-the-World-Will-Look-After-the-Coronavirus-Pandemic-foreignpolicy.com_.pdf" download="Download" ]

Travel Insight Report by MMGY Global

kunle

COVID-19 Travel Insights Report by MMGY Global. [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/MMGYGlobal-Travel-Insights-Week-2-March-30-2020.pdf" download="Download" ]

BVA BDRC and Alligator Digital Consumer Reaction COVID-19 Week 4

kunle

BVA BDR and ALLIGATOR tracked UK consumers’ sentiment in the travel, leisure and hospitality sector on the impact of COVID-19. The research is carried out weekly, this survey was published on 17 April 2020. [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/BVA-BDRC-and-Alligator-Digital-Consumer-Reaction-COVID-19-Week-4.pdf" download="Download" ]

The Central Bank of Nigeria Proposed Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

kunle

Olaniwun Ajayi, a Nigerian law firm, provides a summary of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Proposed Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic, April 2020 [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/The-Central-Bank-of-Nigerias-Proposed-Policy-Responses-to-the-COVID-19-Pandemic.pdf" download="Download" ]

The Economics of a Pandemic - London Business School March 2020

kunle

The economics of a pandemic: The case of COVID-19 by London Business School. March 2020. [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/The-Economics-of-a-Pandemic-London-Business-School-March-2020.pdf" download="Download" ]

STR Industry Update

kunle

STR share their views on the global impact of COVID-19 and possible recovery cycles and forecasts for the hotel market with a focus on Europe [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/STR-Industry-Update-22-April.pdf" download="Download" ]

STEARS Data- COVID 19 Data Report

kunle

Stears Data article on the impact of COVID-19 on the Nigerian economy March 2020 [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/STEARS-DATA-Covid-19-Data-Report.pdf" download="Download" ]

Restaurants of The Future - A Hong Kong Experience

kunle

Andrew Genung, Creator of Family Meal newsletter based in Hong Kong, uses a recent experience of dining out in Hong Kong as a model of what “Eating Out in the Future” might look like in America [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Restaurants-of-The-Future-A-Hong-Kong-Experience.pdf" download="Download" ]

Restaurant and Bar Survival

kunle

Hospitality.net’s article on how Restaurants & Bars can survive the COVID-19 pandemic by Helen Rande. [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Restaurant-and-Bar-Survival.pdf" download="Download" ]

Managing Hotel Revenue

kunle

IDEA published this article on COVID-19: Managing hotel revenue amid demand uncertainty. [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Managing-Hotel-Revenue.pdf" download="Download" ]

How Coronavirus Will Forever Change Airlines and the Way We Fly

kunle

Bloomberg provides several possible scenarios of how the COVID-19 pandemic could permanently change airline operations and the way we fly [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/How-Coronavirus-Will-Forever-Change-Airlines-and-the-Way-We-Fly.pdf" download="Download" ]

Hotel Re-Opening Planning – Start Now by Howard Field

kunle

Howard Field, writing in Hospitality Net, provides a detailed checklist every hotel should include in their Post COVID-19 re-opening plan [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Hotel-Re-Opening-Planning-–-Start-Now-by-Howard-Field-–-Hospitality-Net.pdf" download="Download" ]

Executives and Boards, Avoid These Missteps in a Crisis

kunle

This Harvard Business Review article describes what strategies executives and boards should adopt and steps to be avoided in a crisis situation [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Executives-and-Boards-Avoid-These-Missteps-in-a-Crisis.pdf" download="Download" ]

Evolution of the Hotel Experience, in a New World & Key Areas for Hoteliers to Integrate Now - By Kelly Gardner

kunle

Hotel News Resource summarises Kelly Gardner’s insight on the current and future of the hotel industry and new concepts that hotels can adapt to serve guests post COVID-19 [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Evolution-of-the-Hotel-Experience-in-a-New-World-Key-Areas-for-Hoteliers-to-Integrate-Now-By-Kelly-Gardner.pdf" download="Download" ]

Delta Air Lines CEO-Don't Count on Airlines to Recover for 3 Years

kunle

Skift , US based media company, summarises the impact of COVID-19 on Delta Airlines operations and its top management’s views on the airline’s recovery timeline and possible changes to its business model [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Delta-Air-Lines-CEO_-Dont-Count-on-Airlines-to-Recover-for-3-Years.pdf" download="Download" ]

COVID-19 creates demand for extended-stay sector - SAN

kunle

Serviced Apartment News reveals that extended-stay properties are faring better than full-service hotels, with COVID-19 generating new sources of long stay demand from key workers [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/COVID-19-creates-demand-for-extended-stay-sector-SAN.pdf" download="Download" ]

Consumer Behaviour During Lockdown - Insights From China

kunle

Fitch Solutions look at consumer behaviour under lockdown, with a detailed analysis of the experiences in China [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Consumer-Behaviour-During-Lockdown-Insights-From-China.pdf" download="Download" ]

CERC Psychology of a Crisis

kunle

“Psychology of a Crisis” by the USA Department of Health and Human Services (Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. 2019 Update) describes how people process information differently during a crisis, the mental states and behaviours that tend to emerge in crises, how psychological effects are different in each phase of a crisis, and how to […]

A 5-Day Plan to Keep Your Company Afloat

kunle

A 5-Day plan to keep your company afloat. An article by Steve Blank of Stanford University (and others) [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/A-5-Day-Plan-to-Keep-Your-Company-Afloat.pdf" download="Download" ]

Trust will drive future demand - Puneet Chhatwal, Indian Hotels

kunle

David Keen and Catherine Monthienvichienchai of QUO speak to Puneet Chhatwal, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of The Indian Hotels Company (IHCL), to understand his thoughts on the future of travel. [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Trust-will-drive-future-demand-Puneet-Chhatwal-Indian-Hotels-1.pdf" download="Download" ]

A Sustainable Exit Strategy Managing Uncertainty Minimising Harm - Tony Blair Institute

kunle

The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change analyses the COVID-19 situation in Europe, in particular the UK. They also compare containment of the pandemic in Europe and East Asia [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/A-Sustainable-Exit-Strategy-Managing-Uncertainty-Minimising-Harm-Tony-Blair-Institute.pdf" download="Download" ]

OG Power Public Defender Handwashing Station

kunle

OG Power have developed a hand-washing station which “provides centralized, large scale hand washing capacity for temporary handwashing stations”. [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/OG-Power-Public-Defender-Handwashing-Station.pdf" download="Download" ]

How Blackstone's Earlier Hilton Investment Will Guide Its Hotel Strategy in This Crisis

kunle

This Skift article talks about how Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, is using the hotel industry’s last downturn as an example for how to weather the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.[googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/How-Blackstones-Earlier-Hilton-Investment-Will-Guide-Its-Hotel-Strategy-in-This-Crisis.pdf" download="Download" ]

Crisis Management: Lead Your Business Through the Coronavirus Crisis

kunle

In this February 2020 article, Harvard Business Review authors describe how to lead businesses through the COVID-19 crisis. [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/HBR-Crisis_Management.pdf" download="Download" ]

Hotel Investment Sentiment Survey by Colliers International

kunle

Colliers International presents the results of a survey of hotel owners and developers in the Middle East and North Africa into their responses to and expectations following the COVID-19 crisis.[googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Colliers-Survey-Summary-16-April-2020.pdf" download="Download" ]

Letter of permit

kunle

The Manufacturer Association of Nigeria (MAN) letter of exemption from the COVID- 19 lockdown from the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Investment [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/LETTER-OF-PERMIT.pdf.pdf" download="Download" ]

What life will be like as we lift Covid-19 lockdown - four scenarios

kunle

Biznews have provided this article from the point of view of Clem Sunter, Scenario Planner and Strategist based in South Africa[googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Clem-Sunter_-What-life-will-be-like-as-we-lift-Covid-19-lockdown-four-scenarios-BizNews-1.pdf" download="Download" ]

Sentiment in the travel, leisure and hospitality sector on the impact of COVID-19

kunle

BVA BDR and ALLIGATOR tracked UK consumers’ sentiment in the travel, leisure and hospitality sector on the impact of COVID-19. The research is carried out weekly, this survey was published on 3 April 2020.[googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/BVA-BDRC-Covid-19-Week-2-Report.pdf" download="Download" ]

Legal Implications of COVID-19

kunle

Goldsmith Solicitors published this article on Nigerian Corporate Law: The legal and regulatory impacts of COVID-19 outbreak on local businesses [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Legal-Implications-of-COVID-19.pdf" download="Download" ]

Analysis of Issues Shaping Africa’s Economic Future

kunle

The World Bank Group in its monthly Africa Pulse publication assess the economic impact of COVID-19 and policy responses in sub-Saharan Africa. [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/An-Analysis-of-Issues-Shaping-Africa’s-Economic-Future.pdf" download="Download" ]

Airlines brace for severe turbulence

kunle

McKinsey & Company have provided this article the options available to airlines as they emerge from the COVID-19 crisis [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Airlines-brace-for-severe-turbulence.pdf" download="Download" ]

How business leaders can plan for the next normal _ McKinsey

kunle

McKinsey & Company in this document highlighted seven key elements for business leaders to consider post COVID-19. [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/How-business-leaders-can-plan-for-the-next-normal-_-McKinsey.pdf" download="Download" ]

Americans stuck at home during COVID-19 and how they have found a new way to occupy their free time.

kunle

The Chief Assignment Editor of eturbonews.com did research on Americans stuck at home during COVID-19 and how they have found a new way to occupy their free time. [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Stuck-at-home-during-COVID-19-pandemic-America-gets-cooking.pdf" download="Download" ]

Asia’s Hotels Warming Up to Automation Thanks to Growing Social Distancing Norms

kunle

Skift have provided this presentation from the point of view of Hotels Chains in Asia, looking at the options available to them and the operators they work with [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Asia’s-Hotels-Warming-Up-to-Automation-Thanks-to-Growing-Social-Distancing-Norms.pdf" download="Download" ]

Building a recovery plan for the SA tourism sector

kunle

Dr Andrew Golding in this article published by Bizcommunity.com gives an insight on South African (SA) tourism and their plans post COVID-19. He explains the changes that will occur and the government’s plan to salvage the situation by hosting webinars geared towards finding solutions and courses of action. [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Building-a-recovery-plan-for-the-SA-tourism-sector.pdf" download="Download" ]

Coronavirus and Hotel Lockdowns

kunle

Bizcommunity.com through Dr Andrew Golding’s perception looks into hotel owners and operator’s revenue and how they are managing cost during this COVID-19 lockdown. [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Coronavirus-and-hotel-lockdowns_-Who-foots-the-bill-when-hotels-are-placed-under-quarantine_.pdf" download="Download" ]

COVID-19- NEW NIGERIA

kunle

The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria provides measures to be taken to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 and how it will harness the opportunity for economic growth [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/COVID-19-NEW-NIGERIA.pdf" download="Download" ]

COVID-19 Impacts of Global Passport strength

kunle

Bizcommunity.com on COVID-19 impacts on global passport strength with Dr Andrew Golding. [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Covid-19-impacts-global-passport-strength.pdf" download="Download" ]

Hotel Management Housekeeping Guidebook

kunle

The hotel management housekeeping guidebook gives guidelines on how to operate during this pandemic whilst keeping guests and employees safe [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/HM_Housekeeping-Guidebook4.9.pdf" download="Download" ]

Restaurant Food Trends in a Post-Coronavirus World

kunle

e-Turbo News have provided this article on restaurant trends post-COVID -19. [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Restaurant-Food-Trends-in-a-Post-Coronavirus-World-1.pdf" download="Download" ]

Destination International Coronavirus Webinar Master Deck

kunle

Destinations International have provided this presentation from the point of view of Destination Managers in the USA, and the options available to them and the operators they work with. [googlepdf url="http://r4d.ce1.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Destinations-International-Coronavirus-Webinar-Master-Deck-1.pdf" download="Download" ]