Thursday, 18 February 2021 15:58
Cover star Ashish Chopra, CEO at Delhi Duty Free Services, and Stefan Patermann, CEO at Retail inMotion are among the video interviewees this edition.
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Domestic travel will continue to aid recovery for hotels in 2021: JLL
Indiaâs hospitality industry witnessed a decline of 54.9% in Revenue Per Available Room (RevPAR) during January to December (CY 2020) as compared to CY 2019, according to JLLâs Hotel Momentum India (HMI) Q4 2020, a quarterly hospitality sector monitor. With the revival of domestic travel, emergence of recovery indicators has come to the rescue of the sector.
The recovery of the sector has been primarily driven by leisure ârevenge travelâ during weekends, festival season, weddings and demand of food & beverage.
Total number of signings in Q4 2020 stood at 45 hotels comprising of 4,326 keys, recording a decline of 43.6%, compared to the same period last year. International operators dominated signings over domestic operators with the ratio of 57:43 in terms of inventory volume.
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Julie Gibb joined Sim Local as Chief Technology Officer in 2017, at a pivotal point in the company’s technology journey. She leads a team responsible for the technology services that underpin Sim Local’s retail business and retail channels across the globe. Gibb has played a crucial role in the development of the next generation UNITE platform, which leverages Sim Local’s retail business insights and cloud native to offer a digital eSIM technology solution for various enterprises.
What was your first job? I worked as a Project Manager at Nortel Networks straight out of university in 1995, where I was responsible for the phased expansion of International Operators fixed line networks across Europe. My first graduate role was a great introduction to the world of working within a multinational and taught me about working with multi-cultural teams across geographies. I was lucky to have entered the telecoms sector at a time of deregulation and was expo