FHS Saudi Arabia celebrates entrepreneurship as Startup Den returns for 2026 edition
FHS Saudi Arabia's Startup Den returns for 2026, with six finalists pitching live for prizes including FHS World access and curated meetings with VCs and investors.
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What Strong Product Management Looks Like in Hospitality Tech
Hospitality tech product leaders Jennifer and Natalie outline how strong product management bridges frontline operations and leadership through data, storytelling, and lifecycle-aware prioritization.
Natalie Kimball in conversation with Jennifer Mays
AHLA Announces New Board Leadership Team, Taps Davidson Hospitality Group CEO & President Thom Geshay as Chair
AHLA names Davidson Hospitality Group CEO Thom Geshay as Board Chair, effective July 1, 2026, succeeding Marriott's Liam Brown who retires after nearly four decades.
Doug Kennedy’s Next Staff Training Webcast: Reservations Sales: Maximizing Rates & Overcoming Objections
Doug Kennedy's free 40-minute webcast on June 19 trains reservations staff to quote dynamic rates, handle objections, and prevent bookings from shifting to OTAs.
International tourism up 2% in Q1 2026 amid growing uncertainty
UN Tourism reports 307 million international arrivals in Q1 2026, up 2%, but the Middle East conflict is expected to cut full-year growth by 1-2 percentage points below the initial 3-4% forecast.
2026 European Accommodation Barometer: Challenges, Concerns & Diverging Outlooks Despite Ongoing Optimism
Booking.com's 2026 Barometer, surveying 1,240 European accommodation executives across 24 markets, finds broad optimism but a growing performance and preparedness gap between large chains and small independents.
Head of Travel Research at Morgan Stanley on How the K-Shaped Economy Is Reshaping Hospitality Investment Opportunities
Morgan Stanley's Stephen Grambling breaks down how the K-shaped economy, AI, brand proliferation, and macro factors like inflation are reshaping hotel stock valuations and REIT investment strategies.
Sloan Dean in conversation with Stephen Grambling
Choice Hotels International Strengthens Extended Stay Leadership with 30th Everhome Suites Opening
Choice Hotels' Everhome Suites hits 30 properties with a Georgetown, TX opening, backed by 40 hotels in the pipeline and nearly half of all new U.S. economy/midscale extended stay construction.
U.S. Hotel Forecast Assumptions – June 2026
CoStar and Tourism Economics raise 2026 U.S. RevPAR growth forecast to +2.8%, citing strong leisure and group demand, World Cup tailwinds, and reduced supply growth of +0.4%.
CoStar, Tourism Economics raise U.S. hotel growth forecast
CoStar and Tourism Economics upgraded their 2026 U.S. hotel forecast, with RevPAR up 2.2 ppts, driven by 8M+ additional room nights YoY through April, though expense growth will continue to pressure profit margins.
What's new at Mews: the announcements from Unfold 2026
Mews unveiled its unified Mews OS platform at Unfold 2026, adding revenue management, guest messaging, business intelligence, accounting, and a SiteMinder-powered channel manager to one integrated stack.
Announcing the Release of Lodging Analytics Research & Consulting (LARC)’s 2Q-2026 Hotel Industry Outlook and Market Intelligence Reports
LARC's 2Q-2026 outlook projects U.S. RevPAR rising 3.4% to $103.48, EBTDA up 5.4%, and hotel values up 3%, with GIS-based forecasts covering 19,000+ geographies nationwide.
Managers of Infinite Minds
The piece argues that hospitality's AI challenge is not access but leadership and literacy, outlining which roles will change and how workers at all career stages should prepare.
By Terence Ronson, Founder & Managing Director, Pertlink Limited
How Convention Centers Change Hotel Markets
HVS outlines a methodology using daily occupancy and ADR data to more accurately measure how convention center events drive hotel market compression, pricing power, and incremental room revenue.
By Thomas Hazinski, Managing Director of HVS Convention, Sports, & Entertainment Facilities Consulting in Chicago, HVS
HVS U.S. Market Pulse: May 2026
HVS raises its 2026 U.S. RevPAR growth forecast from 2.2% to 3.0%, citing strong YTD performance, domestic travel shifts, and a rebound in convention demand, while hotel transactions remain subdued with cap rates near 8.5%.
By Rodney Clough, President - HVS Americas, Denver, HVS
Hilton Launches Undergraduate by Hilton, Accelerating Lifestyle Portfolio Growth
Hilton's new upper-midscale brand targets 400-500 properties near college campuses, with the first opening expected in 2027, complementing the existing Graduate by Hilton portfolio.
Travel Queries Tripled in Length, U.S. RevPAR Forecast Raised, CBP Cuts Would Cost $8B
Monday opened June with a fourth consecutive hospitality.today piece on how Google is restructuring travel search, this time with data showing travel queries have tripled in length as travelers shift to conversational briefs. HVS raised its U.S. RevPAR growth forecast for 2026 to 3.0%. And two industry bodies warned that removing CBP officers from U.S. airports ahead of the World Cup would put $8 billion in visitor spending at risk.
What is Leisure?
Jeremy McCarthy, Mandarin Oriental's former Group Director of Leisure, Spa & Wellness traces the philosophy behind "leisure" from Aristotle to modern hospitality, arguing free time is the industry's most meaningful product.
By Jeremy McCarthy, CEO & Founder, Leisure Alchemy
The query became a brief
Google's AI Mode data shows travel queries have tripled in length as travelers shift from keywords to conversational briefs, structurally undermining how hotel distribution channels compete for search visibility.
By Markus Busch, Editor/Publisher, hospitality.today
Is Your Guest Database Lying to You?
A vendor-authored piece promoting a PMS profile deduplication tool that auto-merges duplicate guest records, claiming savings of 3 to 15 hours per property per month as part of a VIP Guest Recognition Suite.
By Linda Girrbach, Co-Founder & Head of Hospitality Consulting, RobosizeME