Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR, “Marriott”) today announced the opening of its 10,000th property globally, the JW Marriott Ranthambore Resort & Spa, marking a historic milestone for the company as it approaches its 100th anniversary.
Accor and Fijian-owned Yavu Collective signed a deal to open three hotels under Sofitel, The Sebel, and TRIBE brands by 2027, adding over 370 keys to Denarau Island and Nadi.
Bold prediction: The PMS isn't going anywhere by 2030 — but it will look nothing like it does today. It becomes the heart of the hotel, connecting and coordinating most AI tools, agents and decisions running across the property.
The death of the PMS was mooted back in 2014 when I joined hospitality from airlines. 14 years later, we still have PMSes. Their primary all-in-one functions were:- Handle check-in/out- Manage room key cutting- Take payments- Set up the hotel room inventory and types- Assign a price per room- Link to selling channels like OTAs- Manage housekeeping- Manage facilities management/maintenance- Handle on-site eventsSeparate RMSes now do pricing and push rates to PMSes.
The Enterprise PMS will still be around in 2030. Every hotel needs a system of record to manage reservations, inventory, rates, guest profiles, financial transactions, and operational controls. AI doesn't remove that requirement.
C9 Hotelworks research shows Bangtao's pipeline includes 9 hotels (1,640 rooms) and 9 branded residences (1,649 units), with Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Dusit and Central Group driving a shift from beach resort to year-round lifestyle district.
IHG® Hotels & Resorts, one of the world’s leading hotel companies, has announced the signing of a management agreement with Mac View Infrabiz Private Limited for the development of Holiday Inn Mandi. The 100-key hotel will strengthen IHG’s presence in the state and support its continued expansion across high-potential commercial and transit destinations in North India.
AHOCA launched its first regional chapter outside the US in Hong Kong, aiming to connect American Chinese hotel owners with Asian hospitality leaders for cross-border investment and partnerships.
Mandarin Oriental today announces the forthcoming opening of Mandarin Oriental Makati, Manila, scheduled for late 2026.
Adelaide hotels saw ADR rise 6.6% and RevPAR gain 5.7% in May 2026, driven by the Australian Tourism Exchange, though occupancy dipped 0.9% as new supply entered the market.
Dusit International, one of Thailand’s leading hotel and property development companies, has signed a hotel management agreement with Atmosphere, a luxury real estate and hospitality development company focused on creating premium lifestyle destinations, to introduce Dusit’s upper-midscale Dusit Princess brand in the Tehri Garhwal region of Uttarakhand.
AI will not eat established hospitality tech by 2023, but it will expose how fragile much of it really is.
Generally, more people with access to AI will not mean better solutions, it will mean more noise in the market, more fragmented and badly deployed technology - just like the last decades, but at a bigger scale, and the people who suffer are hotel employees and guests. I do believe that to stand out from the pack and deliver something truly remarkable, you need genuine innovators to bring all these solutions together in a coherent ecosystem that is open, collaborative, and truly end-to-end in how we serve guests. The best technology partners will build closer partnerships at the backend layer, while hoteliers can build complete AI workflows on the frontend.
By HITEC 2030, AI will not have eaten established hospitality tech. It will have eaten the repetitive workflow layer around it. Hotels will still rely on PMS, CRS, RMS, payments, distribution, and other systems of record. Those systems are too operationally critical to disappear quickly.
2030 is a long time from now, especially in AI-years, which are only about 60 days long!If I think about the current trajectories and strategies of the bigger companies that will lead this movement, I see larger travel enterprises implementing foundational agentic backbones like Frontier from OpenAI or Claude Enterprise from Anthropic.
IHG Hotels & Resorts has signed HUALUXE Taipei in partnership with Fullon Hotels & Resorts, marking the brand’s debut in the Taiwan market and another step forward in bringing HUALUXE Hotels & Resorts to more markets around the world. Expected to open in 2026, the hotel builds on the partners’ successful collaboration on voco Chiayi and IHG’s growing presence in the Taiwan market.
JLL analysis identifies $790M in 2025 hotel transactions and $2.2B in conversion-linked deals over five years, with luxury assets outperforming and visitor arrivals forecast to reach 53.8M by 2026.
The Ascott Limited (Ascott), the lodging business unit wholly owned by CapitaLand Investment (CLI), announced today the upcoming debut of Diamond Crown Westlake by The Crest Collection in Tay Ho, Hanoi, Vietnam. The property marks a first-time collaboration between Ascott and DOJI Group, one of Vietnam’s Top 5 largest private enterprises and a pioneer in the gold, silver, and gemstone industry, with a strong presence in luxury real estate, high-end hospitality, and resort services. A flagship project for Vietnam region, Diamond Crown Westlake by The Crest Collection will sit as a new benchmark for luxury hospitality in the region as the city grows in appeal as a destination for the global-minded luxury traveller seeking culturally immersive and design-led hospitality experiences, and is poised to become a distinctive lifestyle-led luxury development that immerses guests in the culturally rich destination of Hanoi.
IHG® Hotels & Resorts, one of the world's leading hospitality companies, has announced the signing of a management agreement with Zon Hotels (Mumbai) Private Limited to develop InterContinental Mumbai Goregaon. Scheduled to open in Q1 2030, the hotel marks a significant addition to IHG's luxury portfolio in India and further strengthens its presence in Mumbai, one of the country's leading commercial and hospitality markets.
IHG Hotels & Resorts today announced the signing of Crowne Plaza Saigon Binh Duong as part of a two-hotel agreement in Vietnam with long-term partner Meraki Land, a leading real estate developer. The signing further strengthens IHG's portfolio across the country's premium segment.
IHG Hotels & Resorts today announced the signing of Regent Ho Tram as part of a two-hotel agreement in Vietnam with long-term partner Meraki Land, a leading real estate developer. The signing further strengthens IHG's portfolio across the country's luxury segment.
WTTC's 2026 EIR data shows China's T&T sector grew 9.9% to $1.8 trillion in 2025, with 68M+ international arrivals and a projected doubling to $3.5 trillion by 2036.
Annual reports are widely regarded as one of the most reliable and granular sources of sustainability information in the hospitality sector, as they combine financial disclosures with detailed non-financial data on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. They provide firm-specific insights into areas such as carbon emissions, energy use, water management, labour practices, governance structures, and strategic priorities. Increasingly aligned with regulatory requirements (e.g., CSRD in Europe) and standardised frameworks, such as ESRS, GRI and IFRS, enable comparability while retaining industry-specific nuance. As such, they offer rich, contextualised evidence for assessing how hospitality firms embed sustainability in their business models, risk management, and long-term value creation. A key challenge is improving trustworthiness, and hotel-level vs corporate-level KPIs.
I think the age of AI makes reliable sustainability resources more important, not less. AI can be very useful for summarising, analysing energy or food-waste data, comparing options, and translating complex sustainability language into operational decisions. But it should not become the source of truth. For hoteliers, the most important shift is to move from “finding information” to verifying information and turning it into measurable action.