Wiley Hospitality Consulting

06/02/2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/business/airbnb-brian-chesky.html?unlocked_article_code=1.m1A.GRjK.gr1keYhL5lU4&smid=url-share

The home-sharing app recently added car rentals, groceries and — perhaps most surprisingly — hotels. Brian Chesky, the co-founder and chief executive, is always thinking about how to redesign it.

06/01/2026

We live in a world that often treats success as a finite resource. From our earliest days in school, we are ranked, graded, and compared.

05/26/2026

Medical experts weigh in on how much extra water you need when traveling to hot countries, and it's more complicated than you might think. https://cntraveler.visitlink.me/PPrI7x

05/26/2026

Blaming AI for strategic mistakes will lead to cultural issues down the line.

05/26/2026

05/12/2026

https://apple.news/AsNxVhxHNQcOaHNXHa1Ph5A

U.S. hotels say the promised economic boon from the World Cup hasn’t materialized yet for them. The American Hotel & Lodging Association recently released a report that found room bookings are lighter than expected in most of the 11 U.S. host cities with roughly a month to go before the start of t...

05/03/2026

United Airlines dangled a tantalizing offer a day before my flight to San Francisco. Pay $939 to jump from seat 35C in economy to 4D in its plush Polaris business-class cabin. The asking price a couple of days earlier was a staggering $8,000.

This was an 11-hour daytime flight and the unofficial upgrade bar for many frequent fliers is $100 per hour. So I bit.

Champagne, an ice-cream-sundae cart and Saks Fifth Avenue bedding were scrumptious. Miserable Wi-Fi was a big downer.

Read more from travel columnist Dawn Gilbertson: 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/4dhiFmH

05/03/2026

Colorado has led the US on legislation that ensures people can fix their stuff. Manufacturers tried to claw back that control but ultimately failed—for now.