WTTC, JATA and Tourism EXPO Japan signed an MOU to boost collaboration, as Japan's travel sector hit $343.1B in GDP contribution and ranked 7th globally for international visitor spending.
KKR has sold 16 Four Points Flex by Sheraton hotels across 11 Japanese cities to an unnamed global institutional investor, following a renovation and repositioning program launched after its 2024 acquisition from Unizo Holdings.
Indian Hotels Company (IHCL), India’s largest hospitality company, today announced the opening of Ginger Jorhat, Club Road in Assam. Located in the heart of the city, the hotel offers seamless access to key commercial hubs, making it an ideal choice for business and leisure travellers.
Shambhala Hills has signed a membership agreement with Wyndham Hotels & Resorts to develop Nivara Resort & Spa Udaipur, a Registry Collection Hotel, bringing a new luxury hospitality experience to one of Rajasthan’s most celebrated destinations.
A focus on employee well-being can translate to reduced turnover and burnout. Middle management needs to be provided training and education as well as experiences that enables them to be continually learning and growing. Managers and front-line leaders need knowledge, experiential learning opportunities, application practice time plus learning tools that focus on decision making to help create better work environments.
Supervisors and department heads are the bridge between executives and frontline employees. They may indeed be the most consequential leadership layer because they must translate policies, staffing decisions, service standards, and culture into actual workplace practices.
This is what happens when organisations treat people as numbers on a spreadsheet. Line and middle managers absorb some of the most demanding aspects of hospitality work: pressure from senior leaders and owners, the emotional needs of their teams, and the expectations, and sometimes unacceptable behaviour of customers.Good hospitality companies do exist, and many understand this reality.
Indian Hotels Company (IHCL), India’s largest hospitality company, today announced the opening of Ginger Goa, Arpora.
Mulpha Australia acquires a one-third stake in the 781-room Novotel and ibis Sydney Darling Harbour alongside Sun Hung Kai Co. and Wentworth Capital, with Accor continuing as operator.
IHG becomes Official Hotel Partner of Rugby World Cup 2027 in Australia, leveraging its 160M+ member loyalty program and existing rugby relationships to drive accommodation demand and brand awareness.
Reeco names Lauren Lontine as VP of Sales to lead sales and customer success as the AI-powered procure-to-pay platform enters a new phase of growth.
Gekko Group appoints two Strategic Hotel Account Managers to drive direct hotel contracting across six European markets: UK, Benelux, DACH, Spain, Italy, and Portugal.
Capstone applies hotel-style demand forecasting and opportunity cost analysis to event space, helping commercial teams evaluate group business value and displacement effects in real time.
HBX Group expands its 25-year North America relationship with Virtuoso to a global scale, giving 20,000+ luxury travel advisors worldwide access to Bedsonline's full accommodation, mobility, and experiences portfolio.
Blastness clients can now list hotel inventory on ChatGPT and Claude via DirectBooker, with commission below one-third of typical OTA rates and no setup or fixed fees.
Cloudbeds integrates with Klook to let hotels across Asia Pacific tap into a travel ecosystem spanning experiences, transport, and attractions alongside accommodation bookings.
The article applies the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi to hotel design, arguing that imperfection, age, and natural materials can create a richer guest experience than conventional luxury perfection.
Venuelocity launched vProposal, a mobile-optimized proposal platform that integrates with CRM and catering systems to help hotel sales teams create visual, data-synced group sales proposals.
Suan Dusit Arun, Bangkok's largest public rooftop park atop Dusit Central Park, attracted over 951,000 visitors in its first year while recording measurable cooling, air quality, and stormwater benefits.
Hilton (NYSE: HLT) today announced the signing of Hilton Garden Inn Visakhapatnam Yendada World Trade Centre (WTC), in partnership with BVM Energy and Residency Private Limited, a Kapil Group company. Expected to open in 2032, the hotel will mark Hilton’s entry into Visakhapatnam, expanding the company’s presence in Andhra Pradesh. Popularly known as the ‘Jewel of the East Coast’, Visakhapatnam represents a dynamic market where business and leisure travel increasingly intersect, making Hilton Garden Inn’s offering particularly well suited to evolving traveler needs.
Frasers Hospitality launches Fraser Suites Reserve, a luxury serviced living brand debuting with a 255-room Bangkok property at One Bangkok tower, opening December 2026.
Four Seasons Hotel Singapore unveils its newly launched Three-Bedroom Premier Suite, a generous residential style retreat designed for families and friends seeking the comfort, flexibility and thoughtful service of a home away from home in the heart of Singapore.
OUTRIGGER Maldives Maafushivaru GM John Allanson outlines how the 81-villa resort has built structured wellness programs, including holistic fitness and healing retreat packages in 3-, 5-, and 7-night formats.
Indian Hotels Company (IHCL), India’s largest hospitality company, today announced the signing of a Taj hotel in Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu. This is a greenfield project.
The Ascott Limited (Ascott), a Singapore-headquartered global hospitality company wholly owned by CapitaLand Investment (CLI) has signed a hotel management agreement with KDI Group to launch lyf Nha Trang, marking another important milestone in the long-standing partnership between the two companies.
Fliggy's open-source "flyai" travel skill is now live in Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO and Honor native skill stores, enabling AI-driven bookings without a user ever opening the Fliggy app, just as Chinese AI orders surged 800% during Spring Festival.
YOTEL, the global hospitality brand known for its design-led, tech-enabled hotels, is set to make its debut in Thailand with the opening of YOTEL Bangkok Sukhumvit in October. The cutting-edge 250-key property is located within the impressive Cloud 11 development, which is a brand new creative landmark in Bangkok’s South Sukhumvit district, in the south-east of the city.
Artotel Group CEO backed plans to convert four West Java sports complexes into integrated sport tourism and wellness destinations, speaking at Indonesia Sports Summit 2026.
Minor Hotels, a leading global hotel owner and operator, has signed a management agreement with Trading Construction Works Organization to operate Avani+ Hanoi, a 310-key hotel in Hanoi’s Bach Mai Ward.
A good website/ digital marketing, a decent loyalty offer, and a solid booking engine are essential for all hotels to keep a meaningful share of guest relationships. The role of the OTA should be to bring new guests to a hotel.
The debate suffers from oversimplification. First-party data is strictly contextual to the operational stage being executed—no single entity holds complete ownership.Digital Discovery & Booking: OTAs capture top-of-funnel acquisition data for indirect channels.
It is neither myth nor luxury; it is the precondition for controlling a hotel's own commercial destiny.The "myth" argument conflates two failures. Yes, most hoteliers have underinvested in direct channels for decades, and that failure lies with the industry, not the OTAs.