Dusit Thani Maldives, a luxury resort on Mudhdhoo Island within the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve of Baa Atoll, has unveiled thoughtfully refreshed villas that build on the resort’s signature blend of Thai-inspired gracious hospitality, generous sense of space, and natural island character, offering guests an even more comfortable and contemporary island retreat.
D and D Enterprise today announced the signing of an agreement with Wyndham Hotels & Resorts to develop Ramada Encore by Wyndham Dwarka Varavala, a 69-room hotel scheduled to open in Q3 2027.
CoStar data shows Madrid hit record June ADR of EUR199.97 and RevPAR of EUR164.32, driven by Bad Bunny's 10-night stadium run and BTS's Arirang World Tour shows.
Today, Alpine House unveils a new chapter following an extensive renovation and refined guest experience. Embracing the spirit of a true home away from home, Alpine House has been reborn for the culturally aware, well-traveled guest who deeply respects the region’s history and relishes the opportunity to experience Jackson at a more thoughtful pace. Erik Warner, Owner of Alpine House, commissioned Elizabeth Roberts Architects to thoughtfully reimagine the independent hotel’s design through this lens and to infuse the spaces with the character and heritage of Jackson, balancing comfort, craftsmanship, and a deep sense of place.
There is a tendency, whenever a new technology emerges, to describe it using the language of those that came before it. The automobile was initially called a horseless carriage, early cinema was dismissed as photographed theatre, and the internet was variously described as a global library, a digital encyclopedia, an electronic newspaper, or, in one now-famous 1995 Bill Gates television appearance, something that even David Letterman struggled to distinguish from a particularly sophisticated radio.
Meliá Hotels International announces the opening of INNSiDE by Meliá Bugibba on 12 July 2026, marking the debut of its lifestyle-led INNSiDE by Meliá brand in Malta. Located in the heart of Bugibba Square and just steps from the seafront, this new hotel brings the brand's lifestyle-driven approach to one of the Mediterranean's most vibrant destinations, offering contemporary accommodation, destination dining, wellbeing facilities and social spaces.
Choice Hotels International®, Inc. (NYSE: CHH), one of the world’s largest hotel franchisors, has added Liberté 33 in Poznań to its Ascend Collection, marking Choice Hotels’ arrival in one of Poland's most vibrant cultural and commercial destinations.
HVS Europe weekly bulletin covering six hotel transactions across Italy, Germany, Austria, Norway, UK, and France, including Brown Hotels' €50M Berlin refurbishment and multiple brand repositionings.
The reality is much more complex than black and white. There are already many humanless hotels (mostly in Asia). So there will be: - regional differences in approach to human vs machine balance - variations between different segments (short-term rentals adopted self-service from the get go, many limited service hotel properties followed, but we won't expect to see if in the luxury segment any time soon, maybe never) It will be a spectrum.
In the future, a purely automated, no-human operational model will increasingly become the way of things. For this to fully materialize, our industry and our customer will have accepted all forms of artificial intelligence—both soft and hard.
No. Humanless hotels will become more common, but they are unlikely to become the norm.Automation and AI are excellent for repetitive tasks like check-in, payments, and guest requests, helping hotels reduce costs and improve efficiency.
The global wellness tourism market hit $990B in 2025 and is projected to reach $2.4T by 2035, driven by longevity travel, sauna culture, digital detox retreats, and a luxury shift toward radical simplicity.
AI travel assistants interpret hotel identity rather than match keywords, putting soft-brand affiliates at risk of being deprioritized when their boutique and chain signals conflict.
Monday opened with hospitality.today's warning that AI tools are describing hotels from outdated sources and guests arrive expecting what no longer exists, a Les Roches argument that the traditional hotel org chart fragments guest value across silos, and Cornell professor Chris Anderson on AI shifting commercial strategy from pricing optimization to personalized offer curation. Canary Technologies' HITEC conversation, the AI Hospitality Alliance's crowdsourced use case launch, and a strong Asia Pacific properties day rounded out the session.
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.
Edmondo Grassi approaches the post-stay phase as a sociologist rather than a technologist, and the perspective is unsettling. When a guest checks out, he argues, their stay does not end — it migrates into a data infrastructure that remembers with absolute precision what the guest themselves only vaguely recalls, raising a question the industry rarely asks: who has the right to hold that memory, and on whose behalf?
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.
Indian Hotels Company (IHCL) , India's largest hospitality company, today announced the opening of Vivanta Gurugram in Sector 95A.
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.