The 2026 summit at Hilton Fort Worth targets C-level hospitality tech vendors with sessions on Web3, AI, and investment trends.
Castle's 19 Hawaii and New Zealand properties will use Canary's AI messaging, digital compendium, and dynamic upsells to enhance guest communication and unlock new revenue streams.
SilverBirch replaced error-prone Excel spreadsheets with Fairmas software, achieving improved forecast accuracy and faster scenario modeling across its Canadian hotel portfolio.
Marshall speakers are now installed in all guest rooms via Safemark distribution, extending the hotel's music-focused brand identity.
By 2026, AI-native distribution systems that autonomously decide pricing and channel strategy will become essential infrastructure, directly impacting hotel asset valuations and cash flow predictability.
Inn-Flow won first place in both Hotel Accounting Software and Workforce Management categories, advancing from second and third place rankings in 2025.
Tambourine redesigned nine websites for Pennsylvania's Settlers Hospitality, unifying the independent group's digital presence across hotels, restaurants, and retail.
HITEC 2026 will host 6,000 professionals and 370+ companies in San Antonio for the industry's largest hospitality technology conference and expo.
Wiley brings 25 years of sales experience, including Disney and Microsoft roles, to lead customer growth as booking shifts to AI-driven discovery.
Duetto will host its inaugural PERFORM summit on April 16, 2026 in Florida, focusing on profit optimization as the industry shifts beyond room revenue.
Streamsong Resort saves 20+ hours weekly using the app for real-time caddie scheduling across multiple golf courses with 200+ active caddies.
CN Hotels will replace multiple systems with Cloudbeds' unified platform across 30+ properties in four southeastern states, starting with three hotel rollouts.
The 2026 summit expands to 1.5 days on September 29-30 in Washington D.C., targeting senior hospitality executives and technology decision-makers.
The most transformative disruption we’ll bring to the hospitality industry by 2026 lies in end-to-end workflow automation across hotel operations, not just individual tasks, but entire processes that currently require too much manual effort with too many handoffs and that may unnecessarily create security risks in today's high data security environment.
We believe AI will most profoundly disrupt operational scheduling and resource allocation across spa, wellness, and leisure departments. These areas are traditionally managed through manual guesswork, disconnected systems, or static templates.
I believe the biggest disruption isn’t a single task - it’s the entire commercial workflow behind meetings and group bookings. A third of all hotel room nights tie back to a meeting or group, yet hotels still burn thousands of hours on manual qualification, data gathering, and proposal-building.
UrVenue will demo its UrResort PXMS at ILHA INSPIRE 2025, showcasing technology that centralizes booking for all resort experiences and amenities.
Shiji was recognized for cloud-native hospitality solutions including Daylight PMS, Infrasys Cloud POS, and Reviewpro that enhance operations and guest experiences.
It's abundantly clear that the US hyperscalers are unable and unwilling to regulate themselves. Some owners are wealthier than entire EU countries and act like mini-kings, beholden to no one. Many have taken the view that it's more cost-effective to steal the IP of original authors (text, image, video, music, etc.) for use in Gen AI model training and pay to throw legal challenges at any copyright penalties. A $100 million pro-AI super PAC formed in August backed by OpenAI's president has identified its first democrat target to oust. Anti-regulation, deep-pocketed Silicon Valley interests are injecting themselves into local US contests from afar.
It's abundantly clear that the US hyperscalers are unable and unwilling to regulate themselves. A $100 million pro-AI super PAC formed in August, backed by OpenAI's president, has identified its first pro-legislation target to oust.
The divergence in AI regulation is less about "innovation versus control" and more about who will define the operating system of the future economy. The US optimises for velocity and scale; the EU for rights, accountability, and systemic risk.
Yes, the gap in AI innovation and adoption will continue and expand. This disparity is less about well-intentioned policy and more about an ongoing geopolitical battlefield where technology sits squarely in the 'armed forces' of the major powers.
HCN offers hotels tablet technology at no cost through a revenue-sharing model with advertising partnerships, featuring AI concierge and mobile integration.
In my previous airline and telcoms world, we used service buses like TIBCO to sit on top of enterprise systems. The upside was the potential of plug and play (although we never actually changed back end ERPs). The downside was extra latency and cost.
In practice, it's not that simple. A hub always depends on common integration standards — yet many systems still lack proper REST APIs to communicate effectively. For example, we dynamically manage room assignments and reassignments based on guest fit and preferences, but not all PMSs even offer APIs that allow us to do this.