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.
Nammos Hotels & Resorts and Smokva Bay have announced a landmark partnership to develop Nammos Resort Montenegro, a fully integrated luxury lifestyle destination located at Smokva Bay on Montenegro's Budva Riviera.
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.
ITC Hotels Limited, which draws on over five decades of legacy in Indian hospitality, today announced the signing of a management agreement for Welcomhotel Dehradun Selaqui, a 117-key hotel that will further strengthen the company's footprint in Uttarakhand and expand the presence of the Welcomhotel brand in North India. The second Welcomhotel signing in Dehradun reinforces ITCHL’s asset right strategy, enhancing brand footprint in business and leisure destinations.
The Hon. Natalie Suleyman MP, Minister for Tourism, was joined by Melbourne Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece, Member for Melbourne Sarah Whitty MP, Matt Tripolone, IHG Hotels & Resorts Managing Director Australasia & Pacific, and Ross Pelligra, Founder and Director of Pelligra Group, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the official opening of Crowne Plaza Melbourne Carlton.
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.
Jonathan MacDonald reframes the post-stay phase (typically dismissed as administrative afterthought) as the moment where the ethical stakes of AI-mediated travel become most visible. Once a guest checks out, their experience dissolves into data, and the central question becomes not what they remember, but who owns the narrative, and on what terms.
Hilton (NYSE: HLT) today announced the opening of Slohh by Roach in Bengaluru, marking the debut of Curio Collection by Hilton and Hilton's first lifestyle hotel in India. Located in Whitefield, one of Bengaluru's key business and technology corridors, the 221-key hotel is developed in partnership with Roach Lifescapes, a Bengaluru-based boutique real estate brand. Slohh by Roach introduces a design-forward, locally rooted experience that blends culture, community, and contemporary living.
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.
Red Sea Global (RSG), the regenerative tourism developer, has announced the opening of beachfront resort Six Senses AMAALA, which will welcome its first guests mid-July.
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.
Resolute Road Hospitality, a Boise-based third-party hotel management company founded on the promise to change the way owners think of their management company, announced today it has been selected to manage a new ground-up, dual-branded Marriott hotel development in partnership with TEKMAK Development.