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Toronto Star
5 days ago
- Climate
- Toronto Star
CRTC to look into improving Canada's public alerting system in new consultation
Canada's telecommunications regulator is launching a consultation aimed at improving the national public alerting system that is used to warn Canadians about emergency situations such as severe weather and other concerns to public safety. A person holds a cellphone showing an emergency alert in February when Southwestern British Columbia was rocked by an earthquake, which triggered some concern about the consistency and timing of alerts sent to residents. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ian Young SLH flag wire: true flag sponsored: false article_type: : sWebsitePrimaryPublication : publications/toronto_star bHasMigratedAvatar : false :
Business Upturn
02-07-2025
- Business
- Business Upturn
Simplilearn's Learning Hub+ Gains Momentum Among Enterprises; Aims to Upskill over 50,000 Learners in 2025
One year since its inception, Simplilearn's Learning Hub+ (SLH+) has emerged as the learning library of choice for enterprises navigating the demands of AI and digital transformation. Launched with a bold vision to redefine corporate upskilling, SLH+ has proven its impact with over 25,000 licenses adopted by enterprise customers worldwide, empowering thousands of professionals with hands-on, live learning solutions in the latest digital skills. Business Wire India One year since its inception, Simplilearn's Learning Hub+ (SLH+) has emerged as the learning library of choice for enterprises navigating the demands of AI and digital transformation. Launched with a bold vision to redefine corporate upskilling, SLH+ has proven its impact with over 25,000 licenses adopted by enterprise customers worldwide, empowering thousands of professionals with hands-on, live learning solutions in the latest digital skills. As organizations prioritize workforce readiness in the digital age, Simplilearn is on track to upskill more than 50,000 professionals in 2025 through SLH+, solidifying its position as the ultimate platform for hands-on, interactive, scalable, high-impact corporate learning. Launched to address the growing demand for immersive and scalable training solutions, SLH+ offers enterprises unlimited access to 700+ live instructor-led classes per month, 550+ on-demand courses, and 100+ hands-on labs and real-world projects across key digital domains, including AI, Data science, Cloud computing, DevOps, GenAI, Cybersecurity, Project and process management, agile, six sigma and many more. This all-inclusive, subscription-based platform empowers organizations to continuously upskill and reskill their workforce in line with market dynamics. 'Simplilearn Learning Hub+ is not just a product—it's the most effective way for organizations to upskill workforce on cutting-edge digital skills', said Krishna Kumar, Founder and CEO of Simplilearn. 'With its unmatched flexibility in offering hundreds of live classes, depth of digital skills catalog, and industry relevance, SLH+ enables organizations to build future-ready talent at scale.' Since its commercial launch, SLH+ has gained strong traction, with 20 paid enterprise customers onboarded worldwide, 10,000+ learners covered, and more than 7,000 certifications earned to date. Leading enterprises such as Temenos, Carrix, Godrej Infotech, SAS Management, Dubai Islamic Bank, and Citybank leverage SLH+ to power employee learning journeys, foster digital capabilities and enhance business agility. The platform's unique value lies in its combination of live and on-demand learning, enterprise-ready features like a branded learning platform, integration capabilities, dedicated customer success support, and the ability to scale learning across multiple departments and geographies. Skills like Data and AI (30%), Cloud and DevOps (18%), and Cybersecurity (15%) have emerged as the most explored areas, in addition to AgenticAI, Agile & Scrum, Python, and PMP. This reflects the urgent demand for cutting-edge tech capabilities across sectors. With a strategic vision of reaching $100 million in B2B SaaS revenue by 2027, Simplilearn is doubling down on the success of its commercial business. The Simplilearn Learning Hub+ platform is at the core of this vision, delivering impactful, measurable outcomes and ensuring employees stay relevant in today's fast-changing business environment. Disclaimer: The above press release comes to you under an arrangement with Business Wire India. Business Upturn take no editorial responsibility for the same. Ahmedabad Plane Crash
Hospitality Net
09-06-2025
- Business
- Hospitality Net
Why Hotels Should Adopt a Multi-Channel Digital Approach in 2025 and Beyond
The hospitality industry and the macro environment have been more volatile in the last few years than at any time in the past 10-15 years. I anticipate this will continue due to inflation, higher capital costs, fluctuating demand, disruptions from AI, tariff woes, etc. This is why I think hotels should adopt a digital approach of multichannel distribution for both S&M and branding control, as well as scaling and capital levers. Here's the breakdown: 1. Direct It's 2025. Every hotel should have its own direct channel, period. It means having your own differentiated content and voice, guest data (first-party), and a higher margin on the bottom line. It also means more control and flexibility over your sales and marketing strategies. For example, hotels may get less budgeted traffic from OTAs than expected, as OTAs have their own priorities (the 'black box' algorithms). With the direct channel, hotels can strategically promote special offers. More importantly, a hotel can leverage the direct channel to build a brand and stand out from the competition in the long term. A brand well built sells itself and fosters deeper, longer-lasting relationships with customers. The biggest advantage of merchants on Amazon is the brand (and trust) built off Amazon. Similarly, hotels branded thoughtfully may potentially be invited to well-established branded hotel networks to further grow on steroids. Just like how Trailborn partnered with Marriott or Small Luxury Hotels (SLH) partnered with Hilton in 2024. They were win-win situations. Source: Travel Media Group 2. OTA OTAs emerged from the ashes of the dot-com bubble as their business model proved valid and sustainable. Their growth accelerated further after 9/11 and 2008 as hotels turned to OTAs during uncertain times for risk and cash flow management, reaping the benefits of "free" marketing without upfront spending. Hotels, as high-asset investments, naturally lean toward opening up more inventory to OTAs to save on overhead in order to survive first in a macro environment with uncertainty or even headwinds. In 2025 and the foreseeable future, with tighter liquidity and more expensive capital, OTAs provide a solid cushion to scale with a controlled cash flow. OTAs can also help hotels reach a specific psychological segment of travelers that hotels can't reach from their direct channels. This segment of travelers tends to be loyal to the OTA brands and prioritize an intuitive, convenient, and smooth end-to-end 'pipe' experience over price and other factors, just like Amazon shoppers. Therefore, for this 'OTA-minded' segment, OTAs can be a great referral or acquisition channel with reasonable CAC (customer acquisition costs). Hotels should strategically convert those guests into long-term repeat customers who book direct by building a deeper relationship with top-notch in-stay and post-stay 'room delivery' services. The old dichotomy of 'direct vs. OTA' is giving way to a more strategic and nuanced approach where both channels play a role in a comprehensive distribution strategy. Source: Travel Media Group 3. Metasearch (mainly Google Hotels) On the direct side, hotels had been losing some share to OTAs because an individual property's website simply couldn't meet travelers' lodging 'discovery' needs the way OTAs could. Metasearch, especially Google Hotels, has been playing a critical role as a lodging aggregator but still allows travelers to book direct, levelling the playing field between direct and OTAs. As an SEM/SEO consultant in the hospitality industry, I vividly remember how groundbreaking it was when Google introduced the 'local 3-Pack' directly in search results nearly a decade ago. Since then, when travelers search for hotel-related queries on Google, they see a map-style feature displaying the top hotel listings instead of 10 blue links. Clicking on these listings directs them to Google Hotels, which aggregates price, inventory, location, brands, everything. It was a game changer because it perfectly dovetailed Google's search and metasearch platforms and better aligned with travelers' lodging search behaviors. The cherry on top is that hotels can now list their sites on Google Hotels for free, leveraging the Free Booking Link (FBL) feature rolled out in 2021 to capture direct bookings. Source: Travel Media Group 4. Marriott and Hilton are evolving into end-to-end distribution channels In fact, I think that's a huge trend that's transforming the industry. By the end of 2024, Marriott and Hilton had worldwide property counts of more than 9,000 and 8,000, respectively, reflecting CAGRs of 4.9% and 6.3% over the past five years. They also both reached 200+ million global loyalty members—a remarkable increase of 43% and 94% from 2019. Acquisitions and strategic partnerships, alongside natural room growth, will continue to supercharge Marriott's and Hilton's portfolio growth in an efficient, scalable, and adaptable way. I believe that by continuing to expand their branded hotel networks, they will reach a point where network effects will emerge further to enhance the intuitiveness and convenience of this 'end-to-end' booking experience, starting and completing a booking journey directly within the Marriott and Hilton apps. Branded and even boutique hotels should make their scaling and growth decisions with these two 'emerging' distribution channels in mind. About Travel Media Group (TMG) Travel Media Group (TMG) is a hospitality marketing partner for brands, hotel management groups, and individual properties. Services include custom social media marketing, professional review response, online reputation management, and more. TMG is responsible for elevating our hotel partners' online presence while helping hotels manage real-time guest feedback. Travel Media Group is a business that is a part of the Dominion Enterprises Family.
