Dear Round-Up Readers,

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If you're a regular Round-Up reader you know I was at ILTM this past week. My favorite part of ILTM was meeting "herteliers" IRL!! It was amazing to have the opportunity to chat with Crystal Vinisse Thomas from Hyatt, I ran into Anne Golden from Pan Pacific at the Nice airport, met Carmen Otero, Director of Sales and Marketing, Sofitel Legend Santa Clara Cartagena, and had a quick one-on-one with Marlene Poynder, GM of The Carlyle to get her insights on the conference. Check out my recap of key takeaways from ILTM, it was the biggest gathering in its 21-year history with more than 1,800 exhibitors and 1,800 buyers from 77 countries.

Also, we're doing a GIVEAWAY! Thanks to Pushkin Press we'll be giving away six copies of Hotel Splendide!!  Find out more on Instagram this week!

Now, on to news from the week!

Business, Women, and Random Trends: 
 

• Investors Grow More Confident Fed Will Pull Off a Soft Landing. Good news from Wall Street, WSJ reports mutual funds and hedge funds are putting money in stocks that would benefit from slowing inflation, and falling rates.

   

• Women are Minted! US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen traveled to Texas Thursday to mark an important and historic milestone, she became the latest Treasury secretary to sign US currency and the first woman Treasury secretary to have her signature on a US banknote. US Treasurer Lynn Malerba also signed the note, marking the first time the signatures of two women are featured on US currency.

   

• Kindness doesn't get in the way of success according to a new study. You don't have to be an a-hole to do well in business or other highly competitive walks of life! While you can't be a winner simply through being kind of course – you need motivation, dedication and skill too – but there's more and more evidence that showing some kindness as you pursue your goal is no barrier to success.

• How to Navigate Gifting Season While Keeping Your Cool It's that time of year and the New York Times comes through with sound advice.

Travel & Hospitality news:
 

• Who Wants to Be a Thrillionaire? For the .01 percent, a vacation isn’t truly luxurious unless it involves adventure—and possibly danger. Read more on extreme travel in Air Mail.

   

• Gross-out marketing 101: Why the ew-factor works. Playfully disgusting food combos are giving legacy food brands an energy boost. Mac and Cheese ice cream anyone?

• Lots of Luxury Travel News Broke at ILTM: Read more in Luxury Travel Advisor where I've written several columns (different from what I share on hertelier below).

On hertelier this week:

Big welcome to our new subscribers! The story in Forbes, How Women Are Changing The Hotel Industry, keeps bringing new readers! Super excited to have you here. It's been "tech week," so let's beam ourselves in!
 

• Check-In with Kendra Plummer, Winner of the ISHC Lori Raleigh Award

  We check in with the Elise Capital founder on her recent award from ISHC, her career, and what's next in hotel investment.

• Three Books Perfect for "Herteliers" this Holiday Season Three carefully curated books that make for perfect gifts for women (or anyone) in hospitality!

• What's Up with the Proliferation of New HR Buzzwords? Trending HR buzzwords have our heads spinning. Columnist Nancy Mendelson unpacks (oops...another buzzword.)

• Luxury Travel Is Booming and 5 Other Takeaways from ILTM Key trends and takeaways from the largest ILTM ever in Cannes!

Listen UP: podcasts to download now!
 

• The Value of Interruptions with Janis Burl on Simon Sinek's "A Bit of Optimism" Janis Burl is the architect of the viral Instagram for the TSA, yes the TSA! She shares how she took this dull government agency to Insta fame.

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Have a great week!

Em