The article applies hospitality industry principles, including managing wait times, personalizing interactions, and mapping service gaps, to improve the patient journey in healthcare settings.
The Longevity Brand Roadmap: Earning the Word in Luxury Hospitality
A strategic roadmap for luxury hotel owners, developers, and operators on building credible longevity brands, covering medical models, clinical governance, space economics, and disciplined vocabulary.
Behind the moments: Our biggest lessons in hospitality
Revinate CMO Karen Stephens reflects on 200+ episodes of the Hotel Moment podcast, highlighting recurring themes: service as an org-wide responsibility, human connection, and the need for data foundations before adopting new technology.
The second booking: Your regular came back through Booking.com. Your system thinks she’s new.
Independent hotels are unknowingly paying OTA commissions on repeat guests they can't recognize, because Booking.com masks email addresses and phone numbers, making returning guests appear new in hotel systems.
Business Travel Sustainability Shows Incremental Progress Despite Challenging Headwinds, GBTA Foundation Finds
The GBTA Foundation's 2026 benchmark of 204 companies across 28 countries shows average travel sustainability maturity rising to 1.5 on a 0-5 scale, with APAC leading gains and the Americas losing ground.
Money Never Looks After Itself
A practical three-step framework for hotel financial discipline, placing P&L ownership with department heads rather than the Director of Finance.
Front Desk Manning v2.0
Pertlink's briefing argues hotels should redeploy front desk hours freed by kiosks and AI to lobby hosting before cutting headcount, with a 90-day test recommended first.
AIHA Announces Its Inaugural AI Hospitality Summit
AIHA's inaugural AI Hospitality Summit is set for March 1-2, 2027 in San Diego, capped at 500 attendees, with early bird tickets at $395 through November 2026.
Reclassifying hotel/restaurant contracts as commercial leases in France: a risky but rewarding move
French courts examine whether hotel/restaurant contracts are true commercial leases, with reclassification offering tenants renewal rights and business asset ownership but subject to a strict two-year limitation period.
HVS Asia Pacific Hospitality Newsletter – Week Ending 30 October 2026
Five Asia-Pacific hotel transactions covered, including SC Capital's THB5.3B Bangkok acquisition, Oriental Holdings' MYR411M three-hotel Malaysia deal, and Ovolo's Melbourne divestment.
