Maestro PMS argues that connecting PMS and POS systems is now a strategic requirement for hotels shifting from room-centric metrics to Total Revenue Management and full guest value visibility.
HCN's white paper, debuting at HITEC San Antonio, claims a 500-room Boston hotel can generate $257,645 in annual net revenue via its tablet-based Commerce Media Network managing $3B+ in global ad inventory.
LodgIQ names Mark Charlinski, former CEO of Leonardo Worldwide, as President and CCO to lead sales, marketing, and customer success as its AI-powered revenue operations platform scales globally.
Kiosk.eu makes the case for self-service check-in kiosks, outlining ROI drivers including labour cost reduction, ancillary upsell revenue, and a payback period of months to under one year.
Mews expands its preferred PMS partnership with SLH from Europe to the Americas and APAC, giving access to 700+ member hotels; early adopter Opus XVI in Norway reported a 67% RevPAR increase within one year.
Booking Holdings and Airbnb are each funding separate AI travel ventures as hedges, raising the risk that hotels will soon rent visibility from the same parent that runs both the OTA and the assistant.
HEI Hotels & Resorts, which operates 100+ US properties, has deployed Canary Technologies' Dynamic Upsells to automate and personalize add-on offers across the guest journey.
Coral Sea Hotels Group deploys Shiji's Daylight PMS across seven properties in Papua New Guinea, integrating with SiteMinder, Duetto, and Amadeus iHotelier for unified guest profiles and operational efficiency.
A U.S. luxury hotel group using RobosizeME automation surpassed 3,000 hours saved per month across finance, reconciliation, and back-office functions, exceeding its 600-hour target by 5x.
The AI Hospitality Alliance has formed a 22-member inaugural Advisory Board spanning hotel brands, cloud infrastructure, payments, academia, and AI platforms to guide responsible AI adoption and standards across the industry.
Infor Hospitality previews five HITEC 2026 vendors addressing hotel tech fragmentation, covering loyalty, owner relations, back-office automation, ancillary revenue, and AI-powered distribution.
Hoteza argues that fragmented point solutions limit hotel performance, and that a unified guest journey platform connecting check-in, in-room entertainment, AI messaging, and upselling can lift RevPAR by 12% and ancillary revenue by 30%.
SiteMinder's launch as the embedded distribution engine inside Mews positions it as infrastructure rather than an application, a structural bet aimed at re-rating the stock beyond its current A$2B valuation.
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.
Actabl appoints Rob Bahl, former Marriott Global VP of Engineering, as SVP of AI Asset Management to lead AI-driven asset and operational strategy across its platform.
Starwood Hotels' VP of Digital Strategy discusses how hotels can optimize for AI-driven search discovery, build data foundations as the source of truth for LLMs, and convert AI recommendations into direct bookings.
Payments have evolved from a back-office function to core hotel infrastructure, with integrated systems now essential for operational efficiency, security, and meeting guest expectations across every touchpoint.
Shiji's Daylight PMS will connect with Omniboost's data platform to automate POS and accounting integrations, reducing manual reconciliation for hotels across more than 10,000 existing integrations worldwide.
Leonardo Hotels Central Europe rolled out the Proposales cloud quotation tool across all properties in early 2026, cutting offer processing time by 50% and lifting booking rates by 12%.
IHG launched a ChatGPT app enabling search across 7,000+ hotels with real-time pricing and availability, and will add conversational AI search to IHG.com and its One Rewards app.