Non-hotel luxury brands like Audemars Piguet and NYC listening club Stylus are reshaping guest expectations around atmosphere and belonging, challenging hotels to rethink pricing, identity, and what makes their experience irreplaceable.
A hospitality educator argues that traditional hotel org charts fragment guest value across siloed departments, and proposes practical steps including RevPAG tracking, cross-functional teams, and realigned incentives.
Cornell professor Chris Anderson joins Revinate's Hotel Moment podcast to discuss how AI is shifting hotel commercial strategy from pricing optimization to personalized offer curation.
Minor Wellness hotels outpaced Major Wellness on ADR, RevPAR, and GOPPAR in 2025 for the first time, signaling a shift toward targeted wellness investment over expansive offerings.
HVS's 2026 survey reports per-room development costs across six U.S. hotel product types based on 2025 construction budgets, with a median of $213,000 per room and luxury reaching over $1.6M.
Issue 127 covers Italian hospitality, Colombian landmark conversions, Miami Beach Art Deco revival, Bali heritage design, London's Whiteleys transformation, and the MEA hotel construction pipeline.
Gen Z is reshaping luxury by prioritizing experiences, authenticity, and resale over logos, with major implications for hospitality operators and goods brands competing for younger consumers.
Drawing on Cornell data and Cushman Wakefield research, the piece weighs the $100K annual opportunity cost of a hotel gym against its potential to attract wellness-focused travelers and drive loyalty.
BWH Hotels GB has signed six new hotels in 12 months, adding 291 bedrooms, with Royal Maritime Hotel generating nearly £50,000 in new business in its first month.
Independent hotels can capture growing unmanaged corporate travel by loading rates into the GDS, bypassing RFPs entirely and appearing in corporate booking tools where off-channel spend is being corralled.
A narrative case study of an 180-room Atlantic coast hotel that lost roughly $12,000 annually for eight years due to linen diversion by a trusted housekeeping director, exposing the cost of single-person inventory control.
Using sports betting market logic, the author argues hotels lose revenue on peak nights by leaving discounts active, ignoring LOS controls, or allowing parity gaps when demand guarantees full occupancy.
HVS Asia Pacific's weekly newsletter covers five hotel acquisitions across Japan and Australia, totaling hundreds of millions in deal value across Tokyo, Melbourne, Newcastle, Gifu, and Townsville.
We didn't go to HITEC 2026 for the demos. We went for the conversations. We sat down with exhibitors right there on the show floor. No script, no prepared questions, just one starting point: tell us what you do, in plain language. This is where it went with SJ Sawhney, Co-Founder and President of Canary Technologies.
The AI Hospitality Alliance and HEDNA launch an open, crowdsourced catalogue of real-world hospitality AI use cases, inviting all industry professionals to contribute in 60 seconds.
A strategic framework for implementing hyper-personalization in hospitality, covering data collection, guest segmentation, AI tools, omnichannel approaches, and ROI planning for lodging operators.
Hotels can reduce OTA commissions by making their websites more convenient than third parties and using CRM data to send personalized, trust-building emails rather than generic promotional offers.
AI tools confidently describe hotels based on outdated sources, leaving front desk staff to manage guest disappointment when closures, renovations, or changes don't match expectations.
Radisson Hotel Group signed and opened 22 hotels in India in H1 2026 and now operates 142 there, while expanding across EMEA and Asia Pacific with a target of 500 India hotels by 2030.
RLA Global's 2025 Wellness Real Estate Report finds Minor Wellness hotels outperforming Major Wellness on ADR, RevPAR, and GOPPAR simultaneously for the first time, with US Major Wellness GOPPAR down 14.7%.