The latest hospitality trends for 2026: Five themes reshaping the guest experience
Revinate's CMO explores how hotels must shift from passive data collection to real-time activation for competitive advantage in 2026.
Revinate's CMO explores how hotels must shift from passive data collection to real-time activation for competitive advantage in 2026.
Alexander Limpert discusses GuestReady's 10+ acquisitions and RentalReady's AI platform that helps smaller operators automate operations while maintaining human connection.
In this week’s episode of Hotel Moment, Wilhelm Luxem, Head of Quality Commission at Swiss Deluxe Hotels, joins Revinate CMO Karen Stephens with several reasons why hoteliers have the best of both worlds.
In this episode of Pillow Talk Sessions, Dr. Josef Vollmayr, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Limehome, joins hosts Kristian Lupinski and Jessica Gillingham to explore how the company is redefining what tech-enabled hospitality can look like at scale.
In this week's episode of Hotel Moment, Neil Braude, COO at the Imperial London Hotels, joins Revinate CMO Karen Stephens to explain why your hotel may be limiting your revenue and performance potential — and why you're better off adopting AI when it comes to personalizing the guest experience.
In this week’s episode of Hotel Moment, Ben Campbell, President and CEO of Hospitality America, joins Revinate CMO Karen Stephens with a refresher in investing where it matters — your people, your technology, and the guest experience.
In this week’s episode of Hotel Moment, Aradhana Khowala, CEO of Aptamind Partners, joins Revinate CMO Karen Stephens with a sobering perspective on the state of hospitality and global tourism. Aradhana explains the ways hospitality has become “extractive” — leaving little in the way of community growth and human flourishing. But, even so, Aradhana offers hope that more hoteliers can pivot to regenerative tourism and start giving back locally — ultimately supporting their guests and staff appropriately in times of political, social, and economic turmoil.
In this sponsored episode, Christine Lising, Director of the Solutions Engineering Team at Shiji, shares practical insights on leveraging technology to enhance food and beverage operations in the hospitality industry.
In this week’s episode of the Hotel Moment podcast, Hans Meyer, Co-Founder & Managing Director at Zoku, joins Karen Stephens, with an enlightening perspective that counters the traditional setup for hotel accommodations — a hybrid model — combining office spaces and hotel rooms for a multi-functional guest experience. Hans also shares why hotels can go beyond a “heads in beds” approach to solve the loneliness that guests feel when they’re disconnected from their community. The solution involves elevating the food and beverage element of the guest experience to not only bring guests together, but drive ancillary revenue.
In this week’s episode of the Hotel Moment podcast, John Burns, President of Hospitality Technology Consulting, joins Karen Stephens, Revinate CMO, to offer a solution to the age-old problem of, quite simply, knowing who your guests are. More specifically, John emphasizes the need to move from “anonymous to appreciated” when it comes to recognizing your repeat guests and providing them with the value that a loyal guest would expect and deserve. John explains how hoteliers can solve the guest anonymity problem with data-driven insights from AI that allow for unique personalization at every interaction.
In this week’s episode of the Hotel Moment podcast, Karen Stephens, Revinate CRO, and Greg Friedman, CEO of Peachtree Group, crack open the window to long-lasting financial performance for hoteliers. Friedman analyzes which metrics hoteliers should focus on, how to capitalize on demand drivers, and what ways to shift operations in response to changes in the market.
Join us for a conversation with Brendan McCoy, the Vice President and Director of Operations at Newport Hospitality Group! The discussion will be centered around the valuable solutions M3 provided to address the back-office challenges encountered by Newport Hospitality Group. Don't miss out on this episode!
Here’s a taster of the latest episode with Pierre Ben Kiran, who graduated from EHL in 2021 before pursuing a Master’s in Business Analytics at Esade Business School in Barcelona, followed by a CEMS Master in International Management in Barcelona and Tokyo. Pierre is the co-founder of Bumpy, a digital business card mobile phone app which he began developing during his first master’s. It launched in September 2023.
THE FUTURE IS NOW….Blockchain technology is enabling disruptive approaches to decentralized direct sales & new token-based loyalty programs, for example, based on NFTs.
COMMUNITIES, JUST A NEW BUZZWORD? What does it take to build an impactful & lasting community? Can it become a key to your business's success? How do in-person & virtual communities differ?
Bringing together hoteliers, innovators, and thought leaders to reshape the hospitality industry, HIGH5 covered hot topics like alternative accommodation concepts, tech-enabled operators, customer data privacy, or the latest real estate developments.
Bringing together hoteliers, innovators, and thought leaders to reshape the hospitality industry, HIGH5 covered hot topics like alternative accommodation concepts, tech-enabled operators, customer data privacy, or the latest real estate developments.
Data privacy regulations are constantly evolving, requiring hospitality businesses to remain agile. Still, their quest for the ultimate experience demands a strong strategy and well-defined action plan. What can brands do to strive in the digital-first era and how should they prioritise their roadmap?
In this episode with Katie Moro and John Hach, we dive into detail about what areas of market data and intelligence truly allow a hotel to thrive without needing to guess what its future demand is looking like. We debate the critical needs of what our industry has to act on to do better when sourcing, aggregating and exposing market data for hoteliers. We then lastly discuss a framework for where the future of market intelligence is going. Have a listen if you are questioning your own market data and if it’s good enough for you.
Bringing together hoteliers, innovators, and thought leaders to reshape the hospitality industry, HIGH5 covered hot topics like alternative accommodation concepts, tech-enabled operators, customer data privacy, or the latest real estate developments.