Quest Southport opens on the Gold Coast today with a rooftop pool and apartment-style stays
The Gold Coast's best-known address for sun, surf and skylines has a new place to stay - and it's not your typical beach hotel.
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Amsa Hospitality and Radisson Hotel Group Announce Hotel Apartments and Villas in Riyadh’s Diplomatic Quarter
Amsa Hospitality and Radisson Hotel Group announce at the Future Hospitality Summit Saudi Arabia the signing of a project with hotel apartments and villas in Riyadh under the Radisson Individuals brand. The announcement reflects both companies’ commitment to introducing globally recognized names to the Saudi capital, in line with the ambitions of Saudi Vision 2030.
Hotel Yearbook Article The Hotel Yearbook 2026 - Technology Edition
Anticipatory Markets: Where Revenue Management Meets the Traveler’s Journey
Klaus Kohlmayr argues that revenue management is undergoing a structural shift from reactive optimization to anticipatory intelligence — where pricing decisions are no longer based on historical extrapolation but on probabilistic futures and real-time guest intent signals. In a world where AI assistants increasingly mediate booking decisions, the hotels that act earlier with better data will outperform those waiting for demand to declare itself.
By Klaus Kohlmayr, Chief Evangelist and Development Officer, IDeaS
ITC Hotels Signs Welcomhotel Karai Gandhinagar, Strengthens Presence in Gujarat
ITC Hotels Limited today announced the signing of a management agreement for a 101-key Welcomhotel by ITC Hotels in Karai area of Gandhinagar. This development further enhances ITC Hotels’ footprint in Gujarat—one of India’s fastest-growing industrial hubs while strengthening the Welcomhotel brand’s presence across state capital and emerging financial cities.
Page Three of the Aging
A hotel controller's years of documented AR warnings go unheeded as a trade group racks up $221,000 in unpaid bills before filing for bankruptcy, illustrating the cost of poor credit controls and misaligned sales incentives.
By David Lund, The Hotel Financial Coach, David Lund
AI Hospitality Alliance Announces Founding Partners to Accelerate Responsible AI Adoption Across Hospitality
The AI Hospitality Alliance launched with 12 founding partners spanning PMS, revenue management, marketing, and guest experience tech, united around education, governance, and open AI standards for hospitality.
Hotel Revenue Benchmarking vs Hotel Profit Benchmarking: What's the Difference?
While RevPAR benchmarking tracks market position, profit benchmarking via GOPPAR and full P&L metrics reveals whether commercial performance converts to financial returns, a gap that matters most to owners and investors.
Adopting Enhanced Cultural Intelligence in Swiss Hospitality
EHL research based on executive interviews finds Swiss hotels lack structured cultural intelligence training, leaving staff unprepared for growing Indian, Middle Eastern, and Asian guest segments.
Five Trends Every Hotel Leader Needs to Watch in 2026
An operator from Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina outlines five priorities for 2026: personalization, immersive F&B, on-property activations, mainstreamed wellness, and event-aligned programming.
By Dan Shaughnessy, Director of Sales & Marketing, Marriott
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs for Modern Hotel Wellness Program Design
The article argues hotels risk wellwashing by offering surface-level amenities, and calls for wellness programs rooted in Maslow's integrated needs model to drive genuine guest growth and brand loyalty.
By Adam Mogelonsky and Larry Mogelonsky
The Hotel Content Supply Chain
The author argues that hotel content accuracy across distribution channels has become operational infrastructure, as AI systems now judge content consistency to determine trustworthiness before making recommendations.
Hotels now pay to be looked at
As AI agents run thousands of hotel searches per session, the cost of being "looked at" shifts from OTAs to hotels that go direct, exposing a hidden infrastructure cost once buried in commissions.
By Markus Busch, Editor/Publisher, hospitality.today
World Cup Demand Lifts San Francisco RevPAR 80%, Dutch Guests Choose Lower Rates Over Amenities
Friday closes the week on demand and value. World Cup and conference traffic pushed US hotel RevPAR up 9.7% for the week to 20 June, with San Francisco surging 80.5%. A Dutch survey finds three in four guests would rather pay less than get amenities they do not use. And the week's AI thread turns to measurement, with research warning most hotels stay invisible to AI and a third of AI answers about them are wrong.
One Washington Circle Hotel Is Now Part of Tapestry Collection by Hilton
One of Washington’s most quietly iconic hospitality destinations is entering a new era. Formerly known as AKA Washington Circle, the luxury all-suite property will officially transition to One Washington Circle DC, Tapestry Collection by Hilton, introducing a refreshed identity alongside thoughtful design enhancements that honor the hotel’s longstanding reputation for understated sophistication and residential-style comfort.
HVS U.S. Market Pulse: June 2026
HVS reports U.S. RevPAR up 4.9% in the trailing 28 days through June 13, maintaining a 3.0% full-year 2026 forecast with upside potential if summer and fall travel trends hold.
By Rodney Clough, President - HVS Americas, Denver, HVS
Hotel Yearbook Article The Hotel Yearbook 2026 - Technology Edition
The Future of Distribution Isn’t Passive Connectivity. It’s Agentic Execution.
Sankar Narayan argues that connectivity alone is no longer enough to solve hospitality's revenue problem. The real gap, he says, is execution. With 45% of hoteliers identifying revenue opportunities every week they cannot act on in time, and nearly four in five spending over 11 hours on manual tasks that should be automated, he makes the case that the industry's next competitive frontier is not smarter insights, but faster action.
By Sankar Narayan, CEO and Managing Director, SiteMinder
Global Luxury Hotel Brand Signs Letter of Intent with PHAL as Top 10 Group Advances to Proof of Concept
PHAL, an agentic-AI embedded operator advisory, signs an LOI with a major luxury hotel brand and advances its Top 10 group client into proof of concept for PHAL OS.
Aimbridge Launches Global Sales Office to Pursue Cross-Region Revenue Opportunities for Owners
Aimbridge unifies its U.S., LATAM, EMEA, and All-Inclusive sales teams under one global structure and Salesforce platform to improve cross-region account management and revenue reporting for hotel owners.
A hotel can be excellent, bookable, and completely invisible at the same time
As AI reshapes how travelers discover hotels, most properties are invisible to these systems, while measurement tools fail to prove what tech investments actually return at the property level.
By Markus Busch, Editor/Publisher, hospitality.today
Rethinking How Hotel Performance Is Evaluated
A PolyU study of 53 GBA hotels finds none achieved efficiency between 2015-2019, and argues standard DEA models overstate performance by ignoring product diversification.