OUTRIGGER Maldives Maafushivaru GM John Allanson outlines how the 81-villa resort has built structured wellness programs, including holistic fitness and healing retreat packages in 3-, 5-, and 7-night formats.
The author argues that destination resorts should build sales teams from within, identifying guest-facing staff with commercial instinct and developing them through structured apprenticeships rather than costly, high-turnover external hires.
HSMAI DC's DMV Commercial Leadership Forum on Oct. 7 at MGM National Harbor will cover AI application, commercial alignment, and next-gen leadership for hospitality sales, marketing, and revenue professionals.
Loews Hotels launches Active Stays, a portfolio-wide wellness program with in-room workouts, destination movement experiences, and recovery options, rolling out across all U.S. properties from September 9.
Industry experts assess wellness and longevity as an emerging hospitality asset class, citing data showing wellness hotels generate double the TRevPAR and longevity travel projected to reach $44bn by 2030.
Friday brought Pertlink's account of Fliggy's AI booking skill live inside Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO, and Honor phone stores with Chinese AI hotel bookings up 800% at Spring Festival, CoStar data showing U.S. RevPAR fell 6.2% in the week ending September 12 as the Labor Day calendar shift ended a 21-week growth streak, and Shiji's argument that hotel technology's true cost is fragmented workflows draining staff time rather than licensing. Highgate and Eternam entering Greece, 1 Hotel Austin opening, and YOTEL's Thailand debut rounded out the week.
Aleph Hospitality opens a Cape Town regional office to oversee its 5 South African properties and drive new hotel development, citing record 10.5 million international arrivals in 2025.
Independent hoteliers are urged to look beyond occupancy rates during peak season and examine profitability by channel, room type, rate plan, and cost structure.
U.S. hotel RevPAR fell 6.2% for the week ending 12 September 2026, ending a 21-week growth streak as the Labor Day calendar shift drove mid-week year-over-year declines.
The article argues that the true cost of hotel technology lies not in licensing fees but in fragmented workflows, manual processes, and disconnected data that drain staff time and limit guest service quality.
Bahrain will host the International Tourism Investment Forum with UN Tourism in January 2027, targeting ministers, investors, and financial institutions to showcase the Kingdom's investment opportunities.
A structured guide applying Design Thinking's five stages to help hotel employees evaluate brainstormed ideas and develop testable solutions for reducing guest complaints.
Fliggy's open-source "flyai" travel skill is now live in Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO and Honor native skill stores, enabling AI-driven bookings without a user ever opening the Fliggy app, just as Chinese AI orders surged 800% during Spring Festival.
The article outlines why traditional hotel gyms fall short for today's health-conscious guests and details how wellness hubs, with multi-zone design and diversified revenue models, can unlock higher ancillary income and brand value.
Artotel Group CEO backed plans to convert four West Java sports complexes into integrated sport tourism and wellness destinations, speaking at Indonesia Sports Summit 2026.
Pivot, Davidson Hospitality Group's lifestyle vertical, will manage the 246-room Hutton Hotel in Nashville's West End, which features a music venue, recording studios, and a new spa.
Highgate and Eternam's Alcyon Hospitality Europe fund jointly acquired the 191-key Zafolia Hotel Athens, marking Highgate's first Greece entry, with full renovation planned.
Champneys Eastwell Manor GM James McComas shares how he manages a 500-year-old Grade II listed hotel, balancing sinkholes, specialist maintenance, mixed guest audiences, and commercial growth.
A 30-year hotel operator and Live Oak Bank share why proactive lender communication, early refinancing prep, and strong management credentials are critical to protecting asset value.
Thursday brought a Cayuga Hospitality Consultants piece drawing on third-party data to report up to 30% cuts in free direct booking clicks for European hotels since Google's DMA-driven search changes, a World Panel viewpoint on whether first-party guest data is genuinely achievable or an industry aspiration, and The Broadmoor's documented $1M in direct revenue from proactive follow-up calls. Banyan Group's 26-hotel Africa acquisition, UN Tourism's downgraded 2026 forecast, and 12 property announcements closed the session.