Accor targets 1,600 hotels in Greater China within five to six years, up from 830 today, signing multiple luxury projects and expanding partnerships with Jin Jiang, H World, and Sunmei.
Minor Hotels will manage Shurooq's seven nature-led and heritage-inspired boutique properties across Sharjah, with plans to integrate them into its upper-upscale and luxury portfolio following investment and enhancements.
Weekly APAC roundup covers HVS-Styleloft Korea tie-up, a HKD750M hotel-to-student-housing sale in Hong Kong, a KRW60B Seoul coliving redevelopment, an ibis Phuket divestment, and Singapore's Greater Sentosa Master Plan.
Vietnam's branded residence sector is now worth USD 8 billion, representing 20% of Asia's regional total and surpassing Thailand and South Korea, with 15,762 units in its pipeline across 47 projects.
GHA presented its 2026 Awards across 13 categories at a CEO conference aboard Regent Seven Seas Splendor, with Wharf Hotels, Anantara Mai Khao Phuket Villas, and Capella Bangkok among the top winners.
An automation specialist quantifies OTA virtual card revenue leakage, showing 11 hotels recovered $228K in unprocessed balances in one month, saving ~3,600 labor hours annually.
Hotelogix outlines its PMS onboarding process, claiming independent hotels can go live in 2-3 days and multi-property groups can onboard 5-6 properties per month with centralized control from day one.
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 David Poprawka, Innovation Strategist at Infor Hospitality.
Meyer Jabara Hotels attributes its 24% turnover rate (vs. an industry average of 78-84%) to an intentional leadership culture built on empowerment, shared ownership, and technology-enabled connection.
HVS Europe's weekly bulletin covers six hotel transactions across Spain, UK, Italy, and France, including Extendam's acquisition of three IHG-branded hotels in Madrid and Barcelona for undisclosed sums.
Trilogy Hotels takes over management of the 112-suite Sands Torquay Resort on Victoria's Surf Coast from 1 July 2026, expanding its Australian portfolio to 24 properties.
Hotels that pass the name-search test on AI engines often fail category queries like "best luxury hotel in [destination]," where guest shortlists are built from third-party sources hotels rarely manage.
Monday opened with three converging arguments about who controls the guest relationship in an agentic AI era: loyalty data as the chains' structural hedge, the application layer around the PMS as where AI value actually accrues, and a CDR Global World Panel piece arguing the industry's real challenge is building cultures that elevate human potential rather than absorbing legal risk. One HITEC floor conversation with RobosizeME, the AIHA member survey, and Accor's conversion of a 16th-century citadel rounded out a strong opening to the week.
HFTP's Nominating Committee has selected six new leaders for its 2026-2027 Global Board, bringing expertise in AI, hospitality finance, IT, club management, and education.
A practical guide to hotel mentorship covering structured onboarding, digital tools, soft skills coaching, reverse mentoring, and department-by-department checklists for front office, F&B, kitchen, spa, HR, and engineering.
HFTP and Destination AI partner to expand year-round AI education, with the 3rd annual Destination AI Hospitality Summit set for September 29-30, 2026 in Washington, D.C., targeting 500 attendees.
A panel discussion with four industry executives on where hotel robotics is generating real ROI, barriers to wider adoption, workforce implications, and what lies ahead.
Drawing on Horst Schulze's service philosophy at Ritz-Carlton and Capella, the piece argues hotels abandon AI too early by measuring the wrong outcomes on the wrong timeline.
Major hotel loyalty programs, with hundreds of millions of members, may become the critical data asset that AI booking agents depend on, giving chains structural leverage in the agentic travel era.
Accor and Banque des Territoires will transform the 16th-century La Citadelle Vauban into a 90-key Emblems Collection luxury hotel and museum, set to open in summer 2027 on Belle-Île-en-Mer.