I think that in the corporate offices of hotel groups, understanding the possibilities of Heart-Based Hospitality may be another generation away. I say this because after contacting the Board Members of over 70 hotel groups for over 3 years in a row there seems to be a refusal to even consider that there could be…
1. What Is Heart-Based Perception? In modern-day society, especially in the Western world, if you were to ask someone to point to the place in their body where their consciousness is located and their decisions are made, they would most likely point to their head. Our indigenous ancestors, however, would respond to the same question by…
On a bright spring day, Schlitz is leading Teena and J.D. Miller down a path to the laboratory at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, north of San Francisco. Schlitz is the president of the institute, which conducts research on consciousness and spirituality. The Millers have been married a decade and their affection is palpable —…
While I know in my heart that the hotel industry globally will inevitably abandon its infatuation with the ever so limited concept of SOP-Customer Satisfaction and change wholeheartedly to Heart-Based Hospitality, I feel sad that it will take many years for the change to come about; sad because mankind will be stuck with the current,…
WPBakery Page Builder Mr. Hoplamazian seems to have realised that generally speaking in the hotel industry, hospitality has lost its way, and he is trying to restore it to its essence. But in its essential form, hospitality is a spiritual path trodden with practical feet, and whose adornment is the spiritual core values of Loving…
I think that the trend towards introducing more and more technology into hotels reflects how the hotel industry has lost its way, and how it is searching with some desperation to infuse hospitality with what hoteliers feel instinctively is missing. What is missing is the spiritual essence of hospitality, namely loving-kindness and compassion, and the…
No disrespect intended, but hotel group CEOs are missing the irony of their prophecies about the “Next Big Thing”. They are all looking outwards for physical, tangible things – things which they can buy – and which they think or hope will change the hospitality experience. They have worked through more than one repeat-cycle of…
When a hotel group CEO leaves a hotel company, the tendency nowadays is to measure a CEO’s legacy essentially by how much bigger he made the company in size, and by how much the share value rose. Should we not also be judging the CEO’s legacy by asking how much the CEO made the company…
A man called Dr. Vladimir Poponin conducted some experiments in the early 1990s that are very relevant to the hotel industry. His finding is called “the DNA Phantom Effect”. Before his work, science had already demonstrated that our emotions affect our DNA either positively or negatively, depending on the nature (vibration or energy) of our…