Choice Hotels appoints CVS Health's Ali Keshavarz, a data and AI expert with McKinsey and Aetna backgrounds, to its board to support AI-driven growth across its franchise portfolio.
Mews has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for revenue management systems, recognizing its native PMS-RMS-BI integration built on its 2024 acquisition of Atomize.
Classic Norway Hotels cut forecast error by ~50% across 22 properties using Demand Calendar's automated BI platform, reducing Excel use by 95% and aligning all departments on a single nightly-updated forecast.
Behavioral shift toward AI-driven question-and-answer is already complete among consumers, leaving businesses across hospitality, accounting, and healthcare racing to replace dashboards with conversational tools.
Inn-Flow is showcasing expanded AI and automation capabilities at HITEC 2026, including a new procurement module from its Lilo acquisition, an AI-assisted inventory tool, and proactive BI alerts for accounting and labor.
The author argues AI won't replace core hotel systems but will transform the analytics layer, eliminate spreadsheet workarounds, and let hotels use AI agents to build custom workflows without waiting on vendors.
CHMWarnick's Proph+IT platform gains a Performance Quadrants Dashboard for portfolio-wide visualization and a new Select module for select-service assets, covering 22,000 rooms and $12B in managed value.
Veteran hotelier Ian Wilson argues that AI adoption in hospitality is largely superficial, with fragmented point solutions masking structural barriers rooted in brand fee models and owner data access.
Actabl's forward-deployed engineering program embeds its engineers inside hotel companies to build custom AI, analytics, and data solutions on top of its unified platform, backed by a U.S.-patented data normalization method.
The author argues hotels don't have a data shortage but a signal interpretation problem, with GMs overwhelmed by metrics that lack the intelligence layer needed to drive daily decisions.
Actabl received a U.S. patent for technology that standardizes hotel data from different systems, addressing inconsistencies that create reporting delays and undermine AI analytics.
The article explores how hotels can leverage data analytics and BI tools to transform operational data into actionable insights for revenue optimization and strategic decision-making.
Revenue managers interpret identical data differently based on personal filters and context, making decision-making more subjective than objective.
Hotels in 2026 will shift from manual report-building to AI systems that automatically analyze PMS data and deliver actionable recommendations in plain language.
The guide explains how external market data helps revenue managers anticipate competitor moves and demand shifts rather than react to them.
Ladera unifies hotel data across systems and lets users ask questions in plain English, functioning as on-demand data analysts for commercial teams.
Author argues hotels fail at revenue management by reactively adjusting prices without understanding underlying demand patterns and guest behavior.
Expedia Group data shows 98% of hotels lose revenue from rate misuse every four days, highlighting how poor data quality undermines pricing decisions.
The native BI tool delivers AI-powered insights and custom dashboards directly within Mews' platform, helping early customer Adara Hotel achieve 20% higher suite occupancy.
RateGain launched a free dashboard tracking flight and hotel bookings for FIFA World Cup 2026 host cities, showing double-digit growth in flight bookings.