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Sean O'Neill

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  • Senior Hospitality Editor, Skift
Washington, D.C.
As seen in: Skift, Medium, BBC, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Finance Canada, Flipboard, Lonely Planet, Yahoo Sports Canada, Yahoo, Condé Nast Traveler, EIN News and
Covers:  hotel companies
Doesn't Cover: consumer gadgets
Senior hospitality editor at @Skift, reporting on hotels /🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈/ so@skift.com or DM for Signal.

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Today: Senior hospitality editor at Skift.com

Formerly:
columnist and blog contributor, BBC.com.
Contributing editor at Budget Travel magazine's website. Reporter and editor at Tnooz. Contributor to other publications, such as Conde Nast Traveler's website.

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How The Boca Raton Fared After Dropping the Waldorf Astoria Name

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By Sean O'Neill Verified
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When The Boca Raton took down its Waldorf Astoria branding in 2021, it walked away from the machinery big hotel groups say properties can't live without. The 200-acre Florida resort lost Hilton's loyalty program, the reservations and property-management tech, the group sales force, and nearly all of the historical guest records. MSD Partners, the investment firm of Dell Technologies founder Michael Dell (now BDT & MSD Partners), had bought the resort from Blackstone in 2019 for $875 million.
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Minor Delays Plan for $1 Billion Hotel REIT

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By Sean O'Neill Verified
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Skift Take Minor International is postponing its plan to float a real estate investment trust (REIT) with some of its hotels. A hoped-for Mideast ceasefire might reduce investor worries about inflation and make hotels more attractive as investments. Minor International said Thursday that it would delay a planned launch of a hotel real-estate investment trust (REIT) on the Singapore stock exchange because of unfavorable market conditions.
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Accor’s Fix for Corporate Travel’s Most Tedious Ritual: Rates That Don’t Vanish

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By Sean O'Neill Verified
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Skift Take Hotel groups and corporate clients burn months every year haggling over room rates that often fail to show up when employees actually book. Accor is leaning on automation to help fix this. Corporate travel buyers and hotel groups spend months every year negotiating discounted room rates. But then many employees don't book on the screens their companies want them to use to book their business trips.
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