In The News: William F. Harrah College of Hospitality

Fodorś Travel

Feeling frustrated with tipping? You’re not the only one. “The guilt I’m wracked with when I have to hit that tipping button everywhere I go now is stressful, and I feel like I’m responsible for their livelihood when all I want to do is get a burrito bowl”

Travel + Leisure

For some reason, hotel shampoo just hits different. Perhaps it's the unique scent, the branding, or just the fact that it comes in those teeny, tiny bottles you can't find anywhere else. If you put a bottle or two in your bag when you leave to take home with you, you're not alone.

Fox 8

The Nevada Hotel & Lodging Foundation awarded scholarships tonight totaling over $37,000 to eight local University of Nevada-Las Vegas students at a ceremony at the William F. Harrah College of Hospitality.

The Week

Did your invitation to King Charles III's coronation get lost in the mail? You can still celebrate on your own.

CNN

There’s good news on the inflation front: Annual price growth fell to its lowest pace in nearly two years, the Commerce Department reported Friday.

San Francisco Chronicle

If the Oakland A’s leave for a new Las Vegas ballpark, they would join a rising tide of migration from the Bay Area to Sin City that includes residents and remote tech workers, ex-San Francisco-based conventions as well as the baseball team’s former Coliseum roommates, the now Las Vegas Raiders.

Las Vegas Review Journal

D’Shante Styles got a taxi to the Silverton, where police said he had the driver wait outside while he robbed the casino cage, went back outside and had the taxi drive him away.

New York Times

In the age of tip fatigue, many are bewildered by how much to tip in hotels and restaurants and on guided tours. Customs in foreign countries complicate the picture. Here’s some advice from experts.

WalletHub

The best hotel credit cards help travelers maximize their free reward nights, either at a popular hotel chain such as Marriott or Hilton, or at any hotel. Qualifying for one of the best hotel credit card offers tied to a major hotel chain requires good or excellent credit, as offers for people with lower scores don’t tend to be as attractive. The best hotel credit cards for bad credit or fair credit are just the best general-purpose rewards cards for people with such scores.

CoStar

Online travel agencies are taking back some of the distribution market share they lost to hotel chains during the years leading up to the pandemic, as companies such as Expedia Group and Priceline parent Booking Holdings have ramped up marketing investment and product improvements to sell more room nights to prospective U.S. lodging guests.

Las Vegas Weekly

One of ChatGPT’s selling points is its easy facility with blog entries, term papers and the like; the copy it generates is good enough to have taken some freelance writing gigs away from friends of mine. 

Batch USA

Hotel amenity gifts are a great way to create unique experiences for guests. They can be used to show appreciation for their loyalty, reward them for their patronage, and make them feel special. Thoughtful gift selection is key to making sure that the hotel gifts are well received and appreciated. With the right product selection, these thoughtful gifts can be used to create lasting memories and build relationships with customers.