Radisson Hotel Group, with Accenture, launched a ChatGPT app allowing travelers to search, compare, and book from 1,000+ properties across 100+ countries via natural conversation.
WoodSpring Suites earns the #1 Economy Extended Stay ranking in the JD Power study for the fifth consecutive year, scoring top across all six evaluated dimensions with 583 open properties nationwide.
WTTC's 2025 EIR shows India's travel and tourism sector generated $263.6B and 46.2M jobs, with the sector forecast to reach $527B by 2036 as international spending remains underdeveloped at 14%.
U.S. hotel RevPAR rose 8.4% year-over-year in June 2026, the strongest monthly gain since March 2023, with San Francisco and Miami leading Top 25 Markets driven by World Cup demand.
Marriott and Misr Italia Properties signed a deal for nine properties totaling 1,500+ keys across Egypt, spanning Ritz-Carlton, Luxury Collection, and Autograph Collection brands.
Rebel Hotel Company adds three lifestyle properties to its management portfolio: Circa 39 Miami Beach, Hotel La Jolla, and Coachman Lake Tahoe, with a repositioning for Circa 39 planned for Q3 2026.
The founder of Brazil's Botanique Hotel Spa describes how eliminating departments, cross-training all staff, and sharing 23% of revenue with employees cut headcount from 110 to 38 and achieved profitability in year two.
HVS brokers outline how hotel sellers can attract more buyers and close deals by organizing financials early, pricing realistically, and communicating transparently about known risks.
Women hold 52-70% of hospitality jobs globally but only 5-7% of CEO positions, with structural bias, not talent gaps, identified as the key barrier to advancement.
Three European hotel deals covered: Praemia REIM acquires Holiday Inn Genoa City, Atalante and Catinvest buy Hotel Le Pic Blanc in France, and Meridia Capital sells a B&B Hotel in Madrid.
Five Asia Pacific transactions this week include a USD500M Shinsegae-OKO joint venture for Aman and Janu development, two JHR asset swaps in Japan, and hotel sales in Okinawa and Auckland.
AI is shifting hotel personalization from reactive to predictive, with platforms unifying guest data across silos to drive upsells, faster response times, and deeper engagement across the full guest journey.
Conduit CEO Cole Rubin explains how AI agents can fully automate late check-out requests, from confirming housekeeping availability to processing payment, with no human intervention required.
Monday opened with hospitality.today's report that Google is selling sponsored placements inside AI-generated travel recommendations with IHG as the first invitation-only hotel partner, a second piece revealing that the DMA forced Booking.com to drop rate parity clauses in December 2024 giving hotels the right to undercut OTA rates, and Brand Finance putting Hilton's brand value at $19.2 billion. Agentic governance as HITEC's big theme, Booking Holdings' failed connected trip vision, and a bumper properties day from Venice to Zanzibar rounded out the session.
Google's new Direct Offers format places sponsored promotions inside AI-generated travel recommendations, with IHG named as the first hotel partner in an invitation-only program.
At HITEC 2026 in San Antonio, the dominant theme shifted from AI deployment to AI governance, with Agent Management Platforms emerging as a critical new software category for hotel operations.
The author argues that hospitality's push for seamless integration risks eroding the distinct identities of venues, proposing a principle: integrate what removes friction, preserve what creates meaning.
Federico Domínguez, GM of Camino Real Mérida, argues that AI and connected systems deliver the most value when they free staff to focus on personal guest interactions, not replace them.
Seven years after launching its "connected trip" vision, Booking Holdings still lacks true itinerary integration, and agentic AI now threatens to execute that vision on behalf of competing platforms.
The author argues that hotel competitiveness in the AI era depends on invisible operational infrastructure, as AI amplifies data inconsistencies rather than hiding them.