How AI is Powering Efficiency and Imagination in Hospitality Design
Lisa A. Haude, Principal-Interior Designer at Studio RYS, shows how AI is becoming a practical creative partner in the studio. She describes using AI to speed up drafting, modeling, admin work, and BIM based visualisation, letting designers test more ideas, reduce errors, and give clients richer, real time ways to see and shape a project. Her main point is that AI should stay in the background as a tool for precision and sustainability insight,...
Technology has long been a powerful disruptor in design, often for the better. Advancements in drafting and modeling software have elevated our capabilities as architects and interior designers. Yet with rapid change, we must carefully evaluate the level of disruption we invite into our processes. Some innovations are transformative, while others, like the introduction of AI, require deeper thought, testing, and measured implementation.
In our practice, we’re exploring AI tools to streamline production tasks like drafting, modeling, and administrative support. The goal is simple: enhance efficiency and quality so our teams can focus on what they love most—design and storytelling. Through these integrations, we can rapidly explore concepts, visualize environments, and harness advanced data analytics. The speed at which information can now be collected and processed amplifies our capacity to curate and refine spaces with greater intention.
The Hotel Yearbook 2026 - Annual Edition
The hotel industry in 2026 finds itself at the meeting point of powerful, converging forces: rapid technological progress, climate urgency, shifting guest expectations, labour market disruption and economic realignment. This edition of The HOTEL Yearbook looks at how hotel organisations respond, not by choosing one direction over another, but by designing integrated strategies that combine digital and human, global and local, automation and empathy. A large share of this year’s contributions focuses in particular on artificial intelligence and its growing influence across almost every segment of hospitality, confirming AI as one of the defining themes of this moment. Bringing together expert voices from around the world, the publication explores strategy, technology, sustainability, finance, asset management, food and beverage, human resources, design and more, all through the lens of intentional hybridity in an age of convergence. The message is clear: in 2026, hybridity is no longer optional; it is strategic, and it will be the leaders who approach it with real intention who shape the future of our industry.