Holiday Inn Germany launches its "Chief Holiday Officer" initiative this autumn, giving children staying at its hotels a badge and wish list to help shape the family holiday experience.
An intern at GRACE La Margna, St. Moritz examines whether commission-based upselling incentives motivate genuine service or just sales, and how to design systems that reward both.
ISHC has named Dana-Marisa Licsandru of Alvarez Marsal Corporate Finance as the 2026 Lori Raleigh Award recipient, honoring her advisory work on complex European hospitality transactions.
Eklo Hotels migrated all ten French properties to Apaleo's API-first PMS in five months, recovering over 738 hours of staff time in June 2025 alone through automated reservations, payments, and reporting.
WTTC forecasts 3.1% Travel & Tourism growth in Europe for 2026, outpacing the wider economy, as 1,000+ delegates gather in Valletta for the 26th WTTC Global Summit.
Meliá Hotels International's luxury Italian portfolio continues to grow with the opening of Residenza del Cardinale in Milan. Part of The Meliá Collection, the property marks the brand's Milanese debut joining Meliá’s other luxury properties in the city, Palazzo Cordusio Gran Meliá and ME Milan il Duca, and its sister property Tenuta di Artimino in Tuscany.
Chapitre Six, a collection of independently owned hotels across France, has officially announced its arrival in Courchevel 1850 with the opening of Bourbon Hotel on 18 December 2026. Nestled in the world-famous Golden Triangle with direct ski-in, ski-out access to Les Trois Vallées, this intimate 28-room and three-suite hideaway brings an ultra-stylish alternative to standard alpine hospitality.
Glasgow Marriott Hotel achieved 24% room service revenue growth and 23% order volume increase year-on-year after deploying IRIS mobile ordering, with 80% of room service orders now placed via the platform.
Generator acquires Novotel London Greenwich and signs a management deal to convert a Paris office building, as part of plans to double its global portfolio by 2031 under new CEO Xavier Mufraggi.
AI- and tech-powered hospitality operator Bob W has signed a long-term lease for a 285-unit aparthotel at Berlin’s Alexanderplatz, its largest property to date and the latest milestone in its expanding European footprint.
Greater Paris hotels posted RevPAR of €116 (+3.7%) in H1 2026, while investment volume hit €845M across 21 hotels, skewed by the Pullman Tour Eiffel deal.
HVS Europe's weekly bulletin covers eight hotel transactions across Germany, UK, France, and Lyon, including acquisitions by Whitbread, Patrizia, MNK Partners, and others.
Italian hotel investment hit €1.3bn in H1 2026, 53% above the 10-year average, while RevPAR grew 11.3%, ranking Italy among Europe's top performers, boosted by Milan's Winter Olympics effect.
Ask Alibaba, Not Google.200 million. That's how many AI-native orders ran through Alibaba's Qwen app during Spring Festival alone. Fliggy's AI-driven bookings jumped 800% year-over-year in that same window, with attraction-ticket conversion now matching OTAs that have run for two decades.
Google's agentic booking will flourish if its conversational AI collapses hours of travel research into simple, secure Google Pay transactions backed by major hotel and OTA partners. However, it will fizzle if consumer anxiety over high-cost bookings prevents users from trusting an AI agent without traditional visual validation, or if strict global regulations like the EU's DMA permanently limit its market footprint.
I believe “this time is different.” Both “Book on Google” and agentic booking are not MoR and instead route bookings to the end service providers (OTA or direct). So clearly, the question is why would travelers be comfortable “submitting” bookings directly to AI, but not BoG?With BoG, Google tried to close the loop and become a semi-transactional layer.
Marriott and Townhouse Hotels signed a deal to affiliate eight Dutch properties with Series by Marriott and Tribute Portfolio, marking the first Series by Marriott entry into the Netherlands.
Madrid's F1 debut drew 350,000 fans but hotels hit only ~70% occupancy, exposing how wholesale allotments, late cut-offs, and rigid rate floors blocked revenue capture despite record ADR.
Following an extensive renovation, Four Points Flex Køge is now ready to welcome guests with modernised rooms, new studio apartments with private kitchen facilities, and a new lounge that serves as the hotel’s central gathering point.
Whitbread acquires two Future Inns properties in Bristol and Plymouth for 292 rooms, with conversion to Premier Inn format targeted for completion by mid-December 2026.
Hilton (NYSE: HLT) today announced the signing of the 199-room Tempo by Hilton Munich Airport Arena, which will open on the MUNICH ARENA campus in 2029, alongside the arena itself.
Leonardo Hotels Central Europe restructures its development team to manage 28 new hotels in 2026 and ~20 acquisitions in 2027, backed by an 800M-1B euro investment partnership.