Month: October 2026

IHG Hotels & Resorts (IHG), one of the world’s leading hospitality companies, today announced it has surpassed 1,000 open hotels across Europe.

Above the energy of Patong, where the hillside meets the forest and the Andaman Sea stretches towards the horizon, Avista Hideaway Phuket Patong – MGallery Collection

Hotel June Malibu cut check-in wait times from 7 minutes to zero using Canary Technologies' Mobile Key and Mobile Check-In, with over half of mobile check-ins now opting for a mobile key.

A practical checklist for hoteliers to audit their website like a salesperson, covering page speed, booking paths, content accuracy, and personalization to drive direct bookings over OTAs.

With wellness tourism growing at 14.5% annually and spa-enabled hotels generating 108% higher TRevPAR, operators are urged to integrate wellness into booking strategy, not treat it as a cost centre.

dailypoint's free 18-question AI Readiness Check helps hotels assess their data foundations, citing research showing only 13% of hotel chains achieve measurable ROI from AI despite 91% adoption.

Thursday brought a World Panel viewpoint on how hotel work changes as software tools become AI teammates, Terence Ronson on the hidden token cost of AI travel agents that hotels should expect to see migrate into commissions, and Martin Soler's map of 40 AI trip planning products. Hilton's Pay wit...

Medical wellness is entering luxury hospitality through assessments, body composition scans, and AI-guided fitness, shifting wellness from amenity to a personalized, prevention-focused revenue opportunity.

Cloudbeds launches a native mobile POS connecting hotel restaurants, bars, spas and shops to its core platform, enabling direct folio posting, unified reporting and offline order-taking.

The author maps 40 AI trip planning products across four categories and questions whether AI will transform travel booking or simply replicate the transactional convenience of OTAs.