Navigating the Current: Key Takeaways from CHICOS 2025
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Navigating the Current: Key Takeaways from CHICOS 2025

Last year’s CHICOS conference focused on the Caribbean region’s record-breaking RevPAR levels and appetite for new development. This year’s CHICOS theme, “Navigating the Current,” highlighted the potential for continued growth and development in the...

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Senior Vice President and Director of South Texas
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by Shannon L. Sampson
20 November 2025HVSEvents & Conferences
Navigating the Current: Key Takeaways from CHICOS 2025
Cayuga Hospitality Consultants Panel: Modern Commercial Strategy in Tricky Times
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Cayuga Hospitality Consultants Panel: Modern Commercial Strategy in Tricky Times

During the Cayuga Hospitality Consultants Annual Conference 2025 in Scottsdale, Rick Blackburn, Founder of brn solutions and Cayuga Hospitality Consultant moderated these exceptional panelists:

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Founder of brn solutions
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by Rick Blackburn
19 November 2025Cayuga Hospitality ConsultantsEvents & Conferences
Cayuga Hospitality Consultants Panel: Modern Commercial Strategy in Tricky Times
Luxury Starts Within: People Who Make Hospitality Shine
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Luxury Starts Within: People Who Make Hospitality Shine

I recently attended the Beyond Luxury Awards at the Fairmont La Hacienda Costa del Sol which we had sponsored, the event brought together luxury hoteliers from across Spain. Over good food and conversations, something struck me: there was barely any...

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Julia Valencoso
Senior Marketing Manager, Europe, Africa, UK and Ireland, Shiji Group
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by Julia Valencoso
7 November 2025ShijiEvents & Conferences
Luxury Starts Within: People Who Make Hospitality Shine
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Infor Hospitality and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are bringing hotel leaders together for Innovation Fest 2025

The hospitality industry is entering a defining moment. After years of steady digital adoption, hotel leaders are shifting their focus from incremental efficiency to systemic innovation that connects technology, data, and human experience into a uni...

Alan Young
Alan Young
VP, Strategy | Hospitality, Infor
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by Alan Young
5 November 2025InforEvents & Conferences
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Wine and Health: Debunking the Myths and the Algorithms
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Wine and Health: Debunking the Myths and the Algorithms

This year’s “Vine to Mind” Symposium was hosted at EHL Hospitality Business School. The international event brought together statisticians, neurologists and winemakers to explore a topic that continues to spark debate across cultural and policy circ...

Philippe Masset
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Associate Professor at EHL Hospitality Business School
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by Philippe Masset and Beatrice Venturini
23 October 2025EHLEvents & Conferences
Wine and Health: Debunking the Myths and the Algorithms
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Shaping Hospitality’s Next Chapter: How Rotana’s Vision is Guiding the Future of Investment

In the lead up to the Future Hospitality Summit - FHS World 2025, taking place at Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai next week from 27-29 October, we asked several industry partners about what’s next for hospitality investment in line with this year’s event ...

Philip Barnes
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Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Rotana
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by Philip Barnes
21 October 2025The BenchEvents & Conferences
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Missed IMEX 2025? Here’s What Every Hotel Sales Leader and Meeting Planner Is Talking About
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Missed IMEX 2025? Here’s What Every Hotel Sales Leader and Meeting Planner Is Talking About

The atmosphere at last week’s IMEX America 2025 was electric! The pace of change in the meeting and hospitality industries is accelerating and forcing organizations to rethink how they sell, plan, and collaborate. The rapid rise of AI-driven tools, ...

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Mike Pavicich
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by Mike Pavicich
15 October 2025SalesAndCatering.com, LLCEvents & Conferences
Missed IMEX 2025? Here’s What Every Hotel Sales Leader and Meeting Planner Is Talking About
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How multi-typology strategy is designed to meet traveller demands

In the lead up to the Future Hospitality Summit - FHS World 2025, taking place at Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai from 27-29 October, we asked several industry partners about what’s next for hospitality investment in line with this year’s event theme: "Wh...

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Vincent Miccolis
Managing Director Middle East, Africa and Türkiye The Ascott Limited
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by Vincent Miccolis
3 October 2025The BenchEvents & Conferences
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Destination AI Conference: Cutting through “AI Slop” and Finding what Hoteliers Need to Know
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Destination AI Conference: Cutting through “AI Slop” and Finding what Hoteliers Need to Know

Stephanie Smith of Cogwheel attended the Destination AI Conference for Hoteliers in Washington DC on September 30, 2025.

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CEO & Digital Matriarch, Cogwheel Marketing
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by Stephanie Sparks Smith
3 October 2025Cogwheel Marketing & AnalyticsEvents & Conferences
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Women in Wine: Careers in the Industry
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Women in Wine: Careers in the Industry

Wine has long been perceived as a male-dominated world. For centuries, symbolic authority, from inheritance in family domains to the role of the “master winemaker”, has largely been coded as masculine. Women were present, often as vineyard workers o...

Alicia Gallais
Alicia Gallais
Assistant Professor in Wine Management at Burgundy School of Business
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by Alicia Gallais
23 September 2025EHLEvents & Conferences
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