All Latest News Filter 10 more The Hotel Yearbook If I were Minister of Food & Beverage Nico Dingemans, Founder and Managing Director, Hospitality in Health (HIH), lays out a fictional but very concrete National Sustainable Gastronomy Strategy 2026 built around ten “Ps,” linking health, environment, innovation, and social impact across... Hospitality in Health (HIH) More in this category Food and beverage The Hotel Yearbook The hidden cost of job shadowing: why hospitality must rethink training Guido Helmerhorst, Founder & Partner at ScenarioBox, argues that traditional job shadowing is a hidden tax on hospitality operations – expensive, inconsistent, and completely unmeasured – at exactly the moment the industry can least afford it. He ma... ScenarioBox More in this category Human Resources The Hotel Yearbook Top 10 Branding Trends for 2026 Sean Danson, Founder and CEO of New Pantheon, maps out ten branding shifts that will define hospitality in 2026, from regenerative hospitality and AI-as-infrastructure to immersive storyworlds and quiet, conscious luxury. He argues that the stronges... New Pantheon More in this category Brand Marketing The Hotel Yearbook Not another one Andrew Sangster, editorial director and owner of Hotel Analyst, takes a sceptical-but-curious look at AI, setting its impact somewhere between “nothing burger” and “end of humanity,” and ultimately framing it as the next big platform shift rather th... Hotel Analyst More in this category Information Technology The Hotel Yearbook Best business strategy? Jimmy the barkeeper, Francis the breakfast waitress. Dr. Andreas Krobath, Founder & CEO at Absolute Future IT & Marketing, points out the obvious truth: we will have more tourists, fewer employees, and it makes absolutely no sense to waste precious human time on repetitive screen work. His message is ... Absolute Future IT & Marketing GmbH More in this category Human Resources The Hotel Yearbook The Future of Hotels: Social Vibes Supported by Robots and Technologies Dr. Meng-Mei Chen, Author of Hospitality Vibes and Associate Professor at EHL, imagines a near future where travel journeys are stitched together by AI, robots, and smart environments, but the real magic of hotels comes from “vibes hosts” who curate... More in this category Information Technology The Hotel Yearbook The AI Shift: Rethinking Digital Ads in Hospitality’s F&B Sector Kalani Bandaranayake, Ex-Cluster Assistant Director Digital & E-Commerce at Raffles Doha and Fairmont Doha, explains how AI is turning F&B marketing from guesswork into a living, adaptive system that listens, learns, and reacts in real time. She sho... Accor More in this category Food and beverage The Hotel Yearbook No Ads My A*s (or the Slow Googlization of OpenAI) Simone Puorto, Head of Emerging Technologies at Hospitality Net, draws a sharp parallel between Google’s early “no ads” promise and today’s reassurances around ad-free, unbiased generative AI. He argues that monetisation will inevitably seep into AI... More in this category Sales & Marketing The Hotel Yearbook How Hotel GMs Must Evolve to Lead in the AI Era Jitendra Jain (JJ), hotelier and founder of Hotelemarketer.com, says the real challenge of the AI era is not technology but culture – and that tomorrow’s General Manager must evolve from “captain” to “Chief Orchestrator.” He explains how GMs can bri... hotelemarketer.com More in this category Human Resources The Hotel Yearbook Forget infinity pools. Cultural capital is luxury’s real advantage. Youri Sawerschel, Founder of Creative Supply, warns that luxury hotels are drifting into sameness and that infinity pools, marble lobbies, and “local experiences” are no longer enough to justify a premium. He argues that in an AI-fuelled copy-paste ... Creative Supply More in this category Brand Marketing Podcast Not Done with Sloan Dean Tune In Your content on Hospitality Net? Hospitality Net membership explained
The Hotel Yearbook If I were Minister of Food & Beverage Nico Dingemans, Founder and Managing Director, Hospitality in Health (HIH), lays out a fictional but very concrete National Sustainable Gastronomy Strategy 2026 built around ten “Ps,” linking health, environment, innovation, and social impact across... Hospitality in Health (HIH) More in this category Food and beverage
The Hotel Yearbook The hidden cost of job shadowing: why hospitality must rethink training Guido Helmerhorst, Founder & Partner at ScenarioBox, argues that traditional job shadowing is a hidden tax on hospitality operations – expensive, inconsistent, and completely unmeasured – at exactly the moment the industry can least afford it. He ma... ScenarioBox More in this category Human Resources
The Hotel Yearbook Top 10 Branding Trends for 2026 Sean Danson, Founder and CEO of New Pantheon, maps out ten branding shifts that will define hospitality in 2026, from regenerative hospitality and AI-as-infrastructure to immersive storyworlds and quiet, conscious luxury. He argues that the stronges... New Pantheon More in this category Brand Marketing
The Hotel Yearbook Not another one Andrew Sangster, editorial director and owner of Hotel Analyst, takes a sceptical-but-curious look at AI, setting its impact somewhere between “nothing burger” and “end of humanity,” and ultimately framing it as the next big platform shift rather th... Hotel Analyst More in this category Information Technology
The Hotel Yearbook Best business strategy? Jimmy the barkeeper, Francis the breakfast waitress. Dr. Andreas Krobath, Founder & CEO at Absolute Future IT & Marketing, points out the obvious truth: we will have more tourists, fewer employees, and it makes absolutely no sense to waste precious human time on repetitive screen work. His message is ... Absolute Future IT & Marketing GmbH More in this category Human Resources
The Hotel Yearbook The Future of Hotels: Social Vibes Supported by Robots and Technologies Dr. Meng-Mei Chen, Author of Hospitality Vibes and Associate Professor at EHL, imagines a near future where travel journeys are stitched together by AI, robots, and smart environments, but the real magic of hotels comes from “vibes hosts” who curate... More in this category Information Technology
The Hotel Yearbook The AI Shift: Rethinking Digital Ads in Hospitality’s F&B Sector Kalani Bandaranayake, Ex-Cluster Assistant Director Digital & E-Commerce at Raffles Doha and Fairmont Doha, explains how AI is turning F&B marketing from guesswork into a living, adaptive system that listens, learns, and reacts in real time. She sho... Accor More in this category Food and beverage
The Hotel Yearbook No Ads My A*s (or the Slow Googlization of OpenAI) Simone Puorto, Head of Emerging Technologies at Hospitality Net, draws a sharp parallel between Google’s early “no ads” promise and today’s reassurances around ad-free, unbiased generative AI. He argues that monetisation will inevitably seep into AI... More in this category Sales & Marketing
The Hotel Yearbook How Hotel GMs Must Evolve to Lead in the AI Era Jitendra Jain (JJ), hotelier and founder of Hotelemarketer.com, says the real challenge of the AI era is not technology but culture – and that tomorrow’s General Manager must evolve from “captain” to “Chief Orchestrator.” He explains how GMs can bri... hotelemarketer.com More in this category Human Resources
The Hotel Yearbook Forget infinity pools. Cultural capital is luxury’s real advantage. Youri Sawerschel, Founder of Creative Supply, warns that luxury hotels are drifting into sameness and that infinity pools, marble lobbies, and “local experiences” are no longer enough to justify a premium. He argues that in an AI-fuelled copy-paste ... Creative Supply More in this category Brand Marketing
