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Meliá Hotels International won Best Practice in Employment Inclusion at Spain's 9th Diversity and Inclusion Awards for a programme that has brought 100+ formerly unaccompanied migrant youth into its Canary Islands hotel workforce.

HVS's 16th annual US lodging tax study covers all 50 states and the 150 largest cities, finding more markets declining than growing in 2025 but broad RevPAR recovery through August 2026.

TRYBE's 2026 benchmarking report, using data from 400+ businesses, finds US spas generate 4.5x more revenue per location than UK counterparts, with utilisation and packaging outweighing price as performance drivers.

Trip.com Group's survey of 8,777 travellers across 29 markets finds 75% value sustainability, prompting the launch of My Travel Impact, an in-app dashboard consolidating sustainable hotel, flight and rail choices.

Canary Technologies, serving 20,000+ hotels in 125+ countries, was named a 2026 Inc. Power Partner Awards winner based partly on customer references.

Shiji's Meridian Experiences platform unifies spa, golf, wellness, and activity management with guest profiles and itineraries across the Shiji ecosystem, targeting resorts running disconnected systems.

Five deals across Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, Vietnam and Australia highlight active APAC hospitality investment, from a HKD2.7B dual-hotel acquisition to a AUD180M Queensland mixed-use approval.

HVS weekly European hotel transactions bulletin covering six deals including Pandox portfolio sales in Denmark and Sweden, Novotel London Paddington, two German hotels, Mallorca, and Vienna.

Sofitel Legend and UNESCO have formalized a global partnership centered on four pillars: supporting local artisans, training hotel staff in heritage, hosting cultural events, and enabling guest donations via ALL Accor Charity.

A proposed seven-component governance architecture for agentic AI in hotels addresses accountability across fragmented ownership structures, mapped to emerging frameworks from Singapore and China.