Boise's hotel market has maintained ~70% occupancy despite a 50,000-room-night supply increase since 2019, driven by tech sector investment, healthcare expansion, and 10%+ population growth in Ada County.
The Bench rebrands its Branded Residences Forum as FHS Living, expanding scope to cover student, senior, co-living and mixed-use assets across Dubai, Cairo, Paris, and Riyadh editions.
Monday brought confirmation that Google's agentic hotel booking test now reaches the GDS, with Amadeus named as the first infrastructure partner and Sabre offering the same capability, which gives independent hotels a second route into the agent that skips the OTA. IHG signed 14 Kyoto hotels with GCP Hospitality in one of Japan's largest conversion deals, and Expedia Group's quarterly data showed European booking windows compressing sharply while Asia Pacific led global search growth at 20%. Canadian RevPAR rose 9.0% in July, two longevity property projects landed on the same day, and Marriott signed the first urban Ritz-Carlton Reserve in Shanghai.
Google's live agentic hotel booking test includes Booking, Expedia, Marriott, Wyndham, and IHG, with Amadeus confirmed as the first GDS infrastructure partner, leaving independents reliant on OTA or GDS pipes.
Expedia Group's Q2 data shows global travel search rebounding after a soft start, with APAC leading at 20% YoY growth, EMEA shifting to last-minute bookings, and U.S. fall travel demand building fast.
Four Seasons Yachts and Lanserhof launch an eight-day longevity residency aboard Four Seasons I during its November 2026 transatlantic crossing, offering diagnostics, expert consultations, and personalized wellness programming at sea.
A hotel finance coach explains how consistent, public content creation over a decade led an AI to recommend him to a stranger, and what hospitality professionals can learn from that to build their own specialist reputation.
A guest's extended stay exposes a pattern where housekeeping routines, booking system rigidity, and broken DND protocols silently undermine the experience ownership paid to configure.
HomeToGo's 2026 Labor Day report finds U.S. searches up 23% year over year, with rural destinations capturing 90% of searches and domestic trips rising 13.5% vs. 2025.
Terence Ronson recounts the early careers of three hotel lobby managers in Hong Kong, none of whom had traditional front office backgrounds when they started.
A detailed framework for managing hotel opening budgets, covering stabilization timelines of 36-48 months, comp set forecasting, pricing tactics, KPI tracking, and common financial mistakes to avoid.
TheLifeCo Saint Lucia anchors A'ila Developments, a $1B+ master-planned longevity village in Rodney Bay with three resorts, 500 residences, a medical district, and a 523-acre organic farm.
IHG and GCP Hospitality have signed a 14-hotel, 1,063-room conversion deal in Kyoto, one of Japan's largest such portfolio agreements, anchored by 12 Garner hotels converting over the next 12 months.
Canada's hotels posted strong July 2026 gains, with Montreal leading major markets at +23.7% RevPAR, driven by festivals including Jazz Fest and Osheaga.
Friday brought Lighthouse Direct's five-algorithm AI visitor scoring system that targets offers to website visitors by intent and spend before they bounce to an OTA, Pertlink on Shanghai's 100 AI tourist terminals built on 84,000 content entries as a destination data-layer model, and The Sales Leadership Brief on what emerging market hotel sales teaches that luxury markets don't. U.S. RevPAR posted its 18th consecutive positive week at 6.2%, the ITB Americas Conference opened, and Marriott Isla Verde completed a $38M transformation in Puerto Rico.
The author argues hospitality degree programs are failing graduates by not teaching USALI financial reporting, leaving employers to fill a skills gap that belongs in the classroom.
The inaugural ITB Americas Conference spans 2.5 days with 40+ sessions across six tracks covering AI, distribution, aviation, sustainability, and luxury travel for 5,000+ professionals from 42 countries.
The author argues hotels should use history, architecture, and storytelling to create emotional memories for child guests, building future brand loyalty grounded in nostalgia research and evolving family travel trends.
Lighthouse Direct's five-algorithm AI system scores hotel website visitors across intent, spend, destination flexibility, date flexibility, and length of stay to deliver targeted offers that protect ADR and lift conversions.
U.S. hotels posted an 18th straight week of positive year-over-year growth, with national RevPAR up 6.2% to $111.29; San Diego led Top 25 Markets with RevPAR surging 22.8%.