The historic Gunter Hotel announces its official transition to Gunter Hotel, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel, joining Marriott Bonvoy's global collection of independent hotels celebrated for their distinctive character, captivating design, and deep connection to local culture. To commemorate the milestone, the hotel has also launched a special limited-time room package.
The La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club, a landmark 21-acre coastal resort with a 90-year legacy, has begun the second phase of its $60 million resort-wide renovation with the redesign of 90 guest rooms. Steps from the sand on one of Southern California’s most celebrated private beaches, the project is slated for completion by Memorial Day 2027.
Markus Mueller argues that hospitality's real distribution problem has nothing to do with AI or personalization technology — it lies in an inventory model designed in the 1970s that collapses thirty or forty genuinely distinct room products into five website categories. Until hotels start selling real products instead of generic containers, he contends, no amount of sophisticated technology layered on top will deliver the experience guests actually want.
Villatel restructures into two brands, Villatel Resorts and Homes by Villatel, with Orlando as its flagship and plans to expand through development, acquisitions, and third-party management.
Area Sales Manager Aricia Oliveira of Pier House Resort and La Concha Key West argues that LGBTQ+ inclusion and authentic leadership must be year-round practices, not seasonal campaigns.
Daniel Melnyk makes the case that group and MICE sales is the single most underserved corner of the hotel when it comes to AI — and the one with the highest potential return. The opportunity, he argues, is not in blasting meeting planners with machine-written outreach, but in using a hotel's own first-party data to prospect intelligently, consistently, and in the seller's voice, without adding to an already overloaded workday.
Gypsum Hotel Partners is set to break ground on a dual-brand Hilton Hotel near the Eagle County Regional Airport in Gypsum, Colorado, imminently. Construction on the 140-room property, to be operated by Crestline Hotels and Resorts, is expected to be completed in early 2028.
Klaus Kohlmayr argues that revenue management is undergoing a structural shift from reactive optimization to anticipatory intelligence — where pricing decisions are no longer based on historical extrapolation but on probabilistic futures and real-time guest intent signals. In a world where AI assistants increasingly mediate booking decisions, the hotels that act earlier with better data will outperform those waiting for demand to declare itself.
PPHE Hotel Group is deploying Hudini's platform across 17 European properties, including a guest web app, mobile room keys, self-service kiosks, and staff tools to streamline operations and personalise guest journeys.
Phocuswright survey of 1,082 US, UK, and French travellers finds bed bug safety now outranks cleanliness, value, and location as the top hotel booking concern, with 84% choosing a certified 4-star over an uncertified 5-star.
Hotelogix launches Multi-Property Manager, giving hotel group corporate teams centralized visibility into revenue, occupancy, RevPAR, OTA allotments, and bookings across their entire portfolio via single sign-on.
GCSTIMES introduces a cherry wood, floral-shaped hotel key card that doubles as a 360° rotating phone grip, marketed as a guest amenity that combines sustainable materials with practical design.
Lake.com launched Lake Chat, a conversational AI concierge that lets travelers explore waterfront destinations and compare accommodations through natural language instead of traditional search.
Sojern data shows US outbound flight bookings up 13% YoY but hotel searches down 16%, with the FIFA World Cup redistributing rather than amplifying demand across host cities globally.
GCSTIMES promotes a wooden key card shaped like a cat's head featuring cityscape designs that doubles as a 3D fridge magnet, framed around the "set-jetting" travel trend.
Alliants launches New Living, a purpose-built platform for branded residences covering 5,500+ units across 80 destinations, with AI messaging, payment, and HOA management tools for developers and operators.
The AI Hospitality Alliance launched with 12 founding partners spanning PMS, revenue management, marketing, and guest experience tech, united around education, governance, and open AI standards for hospitality.
An operator from Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina outlines five priorities for 2026: personalization, immersive F&B, on-property activations, mainstreamed wellness, and event-aligned programming.
One of Washington’s most quietly iconic hospitality destinations is entering a new era. Formerly known as AKA Washington Circle, the luxury all-suite property will officially transition to One Washington Circle DC, Tapestry Collection by Hilton, introducing a refreshed identity alongside thoughtful design enhancements that honor the hotel’s longstanding reputation for understated sophistication and residential-style comfort.
HVS reports U.S. RevPAR up 4.9% in the trailing 28 days through June 13, maintaining a 3.0% full-year 2026 forecast with upside potential if summer and fall travel trends hold.
Sankar Narayan argues that connectivity alone is no longer enough to solve hospitality's revenue problem. The real gap, he says, is execution. With 45% of hoteliers identifying revenue opportunities every week they cannot act on in time, and nearly four in five spending over 11 hours on manual tasks that should be automated, he makes the case that the industry's next competitive frontier is not smarter insights, but faster action.
U.S. hotel RevPAR rose 9.7% for the week of June 14-20, with San Francisco leading Top 25 Markets on World Cup and Databricks conference demand, pushing RevPAR up 80.5%.
Fredrik Sjoberg draws a sharp historical line from the 10% commission of the travel agent era to the 15–25% of OTAs, and asks whether the AI agent era will push that number to 30% — the rate Apple held in the App Store for over a decade simply because it controlled the front door. The industry, he argues, is making the same structural mistakes it made with OTAs, and has a narrow window to act before the terms are set for good.
TKo Hospitality adds three properties to its Mid-Atlantic portfolio, including two Rehoboth Beach boutiques and a 50-room luxury hotel under development at New Jersey's Fort Monmouth, plus a Hyatt Studios groundbreaking in Bethlehem, PA.
Evermore Orlando Resort partners with Harvard-trained social scientist Kasley Killam to develop a formal "Relational Wellness" program, positioning the resort as the first luxury brand to ground its guest experience strategy in social health research.
A Private Hideaway in the Heart of Austin: Hotel Trinity Brings a Seafood Fine Dining Concept, Guest-Only Rooftop, and Residential Luxury.
An Oxford Economics study for AHLA and CHLA finds San Francisco hotels generated $12B in economic impact in 2025, supporting nearly 50,000 jobs and $2B in tax revenue, with ADRs at 92% of 2019 levels.
Pablo Delgado argues that AI assistants are not simply adding another channel to hotel distribution — they are compressing the entire travel funnel into a single conversation, potentially owning discovery, consideration, and transaction in one pass. The hotels that wait for certainty before adapting, he warns, risk repeating the same mistake they made when OTAs arrived.