Hyatt and Parks Hospitality Holdings will open two all-inclusive luxury resorts in Mexico in H2 2026: the 148-room Park Hyatt Riviera Maya and the 301-room Grand Hyatt Los Cabos.
WTTC's Hotel Sustainability Basics, adopted by 8,000+ hotels in 85 countries, will become an independent third-party certification aligned with EU green claims rules and the GSTC Accreditation Framework.
HOSPA has published a practical guide on the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023, covering troncs, written policies, record keeping, tax, VAT, and agency worker inclusion for UK hospitality operators.
WTTC warns that raising Barcelona's cruise tourist tax risks reducing visitor spend, cutting jobs, and eroding the city's edge over rival Mediterranean ports.
An Oxford Economics study for AHLA and CHLA finds San Francisco hotels generated $12B in economic impact in 2025, supporting nearly 50,000 jobs and $2B in tax revenue, with ADRs at 92% of 2019 levels.
Roch Capital's renovation of Hampton Inn Jacksonville Beach Oceanfront, running March to August 2026, overhauls public areas, bars, dining, and meeting spaces with a coastal design theme managed by Newport Hospitality Group.
Expedia Group and Censuswide surveyed 1,500 hotel decision makers across six markets, finding fully connected properties are 1.6x more likely to report improved occupancy, ADR, or RevPAR than basic-connectivity peers.
Pablo Delgado argues that AI assistants are not simply adding another channel to hotel distribution — they are compressing the entire travel funnel into a single conversation, potentially owning discovery, consideration, and transaction in one pass. The hotels that wait for certainty before adapting, he warns, risk repeating the same mistake they made when OTAs arrived.
The Standard, Brussels becomes the first Hyatt-affiliated hotel in Belgium, allowing World of Hyatt members to earn and redeem points at nearly the full Standard portfolio.
Hilton named 30 global team members as recipients of its 2026 Thrive Sabbatical and Thrive Reset programs, offering up to one month of paid leave and grants of up to $5,000 for personal growth, caregiving, or community impact.
IHG's four new signings in Italy include a dual-branded Crowne Plaza and Staybridge Suites in Milan, a Hotel Indigo in Alberobello, and a Garner in Turin, bringing its Italian portfolio past 50 open and pipeline properties.
IHG Hotels & Resorts (IHG), one of the world’s leading hotel companies, announces the signing of InterContinental Vilamoura – Algarve in Vilamoura, Portugal, in partnership with HDP Algarve SA. The signing reinforces the continued appeal of the Algarve as a top luxury resort destination in Southern Europe and marks the fourth InterContinental property in Portugal, further strengthening IHG’s leading Luxury & Lifestyle presence in the country.
GAIN Advisors and Crowdpowder will offer hospitality and travel tech startups a structured route to raise EUR 350K to EUR 5M per round via community-based equity campaigns across the UK, EU, and Canada.
The article argues that luxury is shifting from exclusivity and possession toward regeneration and meaning, with destination-led resorts and wellness concepts at the forefront of this transformation.
Blacksand and Marriott will develop 10 hotels with 1,300+ rooms across Saudi Arabia by 2030, spanning luxury to extended-stay brands, with 6,000+ jobs created and 60% allocated to Saudi nationals.
Hidden operational costs from scheduling lag, cross-department misalignment, and management coordination fatigue compound daily, often invisible in traditional retrospective reporting.
Six hospitality groups across five continents share how Cloudbeds' multi-property platform helped them unify operations, automate pricing, and scale portfolios without adding operational complexity.
A leadership consultant argues that adapting to disruption requires actively reworking familiar strategies, citing a hospitality client turnaround built on improved communication, accountability, and proactive leadership.
Ira Vouk challenges the industry's comfortable assumption that agentic AI is still a distant, chatbot-adjacent phenomenon. The real disruption, she argues, is not travelers talking to AI assistants, it is machines negotiating directly with machines, and a hospitality infrastructure built entirely around human browsing behavior that is nowhere near ready for it.
OTA CEOs at Booking Holdings and Expedia have publicly positioned their companies to own the conversion layer of AI-driven travel discovery, while hotels invest in eligibility infrastructure that feeds demand into OTA-controlled funnels.
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