dailypoint adds MCP support for AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude, plus Zapier integration connecting to 9,200+ apps, to bring guest intelligence into hotel workflows without manual development effort.
The 6th edition of SOCIETIES Magazine argues that luxury hotel brands now derive pricing power and loyalty from emotional precision, design language, and cultural relevance rather than traditional markers of excess.
Hotels like Pan Pacific Orchard, Aman Tokyo, and Ritz-Carlton Bali show how curated natural soundscapes, water features, and open-air acoustics are becoming deliberate design tools for guest wellbeing.
CallTek partners with GAIN Advisors to accelerate global growth, with the advisory firm supporting executive relationships and commercial partnerships across the hospitality technology ecosystem.
A Lighthouse study of 4,545 ChatGPT prompts across 9 destinations finds most hotels are invisible to AI recommendations, with luxury brands and major chains capturing a disproportionate share of mentions.
Three case studies, PARKROYAL Pickering, Oasia Hotel Downtown, and Six Senses Ibiza, illustrate how biophilic design is shifting from aesthetic trend to core hotel strategy.
Quore and VSR have integrated their platforms so hotels can use VSR's VAIA voice AI to automatically create and route guest and staff requests into Quore's operations system, with AD1 Hospitality's Holiday Inn Resort Kissimmee as the pilot property.
DayBlink GPO's 1,100+ luxury independent hotel members can now earn cashback and automate back-office tasks through SwiftPay, OneJourney's AI-powered B2B payment platform, at no cost.
Mews partners with Hostelling International to provide its cloud-native PMS to 58 member associations across 56+ countries, with YHA Australia reporting booking conversion rates of up to 16% vs. a 2% industry average.
Simple Booking's MCP connector suite integrates its CRS with AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT, enabling natural-language queries of booking data, rate parity checks, and demand analysis across 7,000+ properties.
The 78-room Tulum resort migrated from Opera to Mews after ending its Kimpton/IHG affiliation, deploying digital check-in, automated upsells, and a fully connected tech stack within weeks.
dormakaba will exhibit at HITEC 2026 in San Antonio, showcasing digital key, cloud access management, and staff keycard solutions, including its Google Wallet hotel key deployment at Resorts World Las Vegas.
Folio launches an embedded expense management product at HITEC 2026, integrating card-based purchasing, multi-entity accounting, and AI receipt reconciliation directly into its hotel procurement platform.
Cloudbeds and Journey integrate AI-driven loyalty tools into the Cloudbeds Collection, giving independent hotels chain-scale rewards programs without ceding brand identity or direct guest relationships.
Touchstone 1 will showcase Wi-Fi, guestroom entertainment, its FUSION Gateway platform, and security camera solutions at Booth 2421 during HITEC North America 2026 in San Antonio, June 15-18.
U.S. hotels in Q1 2026 cut hours per occupied room by 2.3% while labor CPOR rose just 1.8%, with housekeeping and select-service hotels posting the strongest efficiency gains.
UrVenue will exhibit its experience commerce platform at HITEC San Antonio (June 16-18, Booth #538), showcasing tools to manage and monetize non-room inventory and previewing its AI and Model Context Protocol strategy.
Agilysys will lead three sessions at HITEC 2026 in San Antonio covering AI-driven personalization, resort experience merchandising, and data-connected workforce strategy.
TMG's AI Signal Report identifies the top traveler questions asked to AI search engines about a hotel, traces the sources influencing those answers, and offers actionable guidance to improve AI-era digital visibility.
Shiji and FreedomPay are combining Infrasys POS and Astral Payments into a single Android-based mobile device, letting hotel F&B staff handle ordering and payment in one workflow without switching systems.