Week of December 29, 2016

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NEWS FROM AROUND THE WEB

How Hotels Are Starting to Imitate Airbnb Over the years, Airbnb and the hotel industry have largely maintained a nonaggression pact. The incumbents tended to pooh-pooh the potential threat posed by the upstart… (Forbes.com) Read More

Get That Life: How I Became the CEO of SoulCycle Melanie Whelan, 39, was drawn to the hospitality industry at an early age, playing hotel with her sister and checking her into a pretend front desk as if she were a guest. (Cosmopolitan) Read More

2017 Wellness Trends: From 'Silence' to 'Beyond the 1%' Wellness trends for 2017 and beyond have a “get real” quality (not the “charcoal is the new kale” variety), according to the 500-plus wellness experts from 46 nations who recently gathered for the Global Wellness Summit. (Hotels) Read More

How COBRA Intersects with Medicare and Retiree Health Plans Today, we’re going to look at Medicare entitlement in the context of retiree health plans—as well as what happens to participants in your retiree plan if you decide to eliminate this coverage. (HR Daily Advisor) Read More

Being Your Best Self If you ask the average person they will tell you that they are genuinely good…there in lies the problem. People believe they are better without any proof. (HospitalityNet) Read More

Unions Attempt to Save the Overtime Rules In a last-ditch effort to preserve the defense of the rule, the Texas AFL-CIO has asked the district court to allow it to join the suit. While DOL has represented the group’s interests so far, it said, that is unlikely to continue. (HR Daily Advisor) Read More

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