The global wellness tourism market grew to $894 billion in 2024, driving hotels to integrate fitness facilities, recovery services, and nutrition programs as core offerings rather than amenities.
Lexis Hotel Group used Amadeus iHotelier Suite to shift to a direct-first strategy in 2025, recovering $502K via cart abandonment tools and achieving 37% total revenue growth amid reduced inbound travel.
Cloudbeds' Ask Signals lets hotel teams query operational, guest, and revenue data via natural language, built on its unified Signals platform rather than siloed systems.
U.S. hotels posted strong Q1 2026 gains with ADR up 6%, RevPAR up 8.7%, and GOP margin rising 4 points, but operator forecasts for Q2-Q4 point to softer pricing and declining RevPAR.
A Hotelios Consulting perspective arguing hoteliers should treat AI as an operational team member, citing tools like Access Evo and Happy Hotel as examples of automated pricing and revenue optimisation in practice.
A practical framework covering six evaluation criteria for RMS selection: integration quality, pricing logic transparency, usability, support, forecasting, and total cost of ownership.
BRN Solutions restructured leadership, outsourced revenue management, and redesigned the sales and wedding strategy at an independent resort, delivering a $1.4M performance swing within five months.
Canada's hotels saw April 2026 RevPAR rise 7.3% year over year to CAD128.19, with Toronto leading major markets and Newfoundland and Labrador topping provincial gains.
A recap of HumanX Summit 2026 Day Two, covering staff retention, burnout, guest experience design, regenerative tourism metrics, and one speaker's outright rejection of AI in restaurants.
PHAL launches in Singapore as an embedded advisory firm arguing that stalled hotel AI programs fail due to lack of operational execution, not software, offering 12-month retainer engagements.
Google's 2026 agentic search overhaul, built on Gemini 3.5 Flash and autonomous agents, threatens OTA dominance by routing high-intent travelers directly to brand.com via structured hotel data APIs.
HVS analysis of Jersey City's hotel market shows 2025 occupancy at 80% and ADR at $260, with constrained Manhattan supply and residential growth expected to support continued hotel demand.
Lybra Tech's Zenit RMS positions itself as an AI agent that builds pricing through sequential reasoning rather than post-hoc explanation, adapting to each hotel's strategy over time.
A five-step framework urging hoteliers to identify high-friction, measurable workflows before selecting AI tools, rather than deploying technology in search of a problem.
Day one coverage from the HumanX 2026 summit at EHL Lausanne distills ten cross-industry interviews into six arguments: AI consensus, luxury redefinition, labor honesty, guest memory, divergent threat readings, and broken metrics.
A practical guide for hoteliers on winning group business in 2026, covering proposal quality, planner relationships, and data-driven targeting of corporate and SMERF accounts.
Hotels can build predictable revenue streams through membership models offering local access to amenities, reducing dependence on volatile room bookings and expensive OTA distribution.
Hotels in Southeast Asia pay up to 28% in hidden OTA fees beyond headline commissions, making direct booking strategies essential for profitability.
The article outlines strategies for balancing rising labor costs with operational budgets through predictive analytics, technology automation, and tiered service models during staffing shortages.
Shiji's Horizon Distribution integrates with JR Systems' Rakutsu with channel manager, giving Japanese hotels access to 300+ travel agencies and OTAs worldwide, with a focus on Asian inbound markets.