APEC's hotel construction pipeline hits record highs of 2,684 projects and 473,560 rooms in Q3 2026, with India leading at 43% of total projects and new announcements up 44% year over year.

Hilton surpasses 100 open and planned hotels in the Caribbean, with new openings in Puerto Rico and pipeline projects spanning 10+ markets through 2030.

Wyndham Hotels EMEA President Dimitris Manikis discusses how AI can free hospitality professionals to focus on guests, filmed in Athens for HSMAI Europe's weekly podcast series.

An operations leader argues that managing the handoff of client intent between sales, planning, and operations teams is as critical as any visible service touchpoint in hospitality.

Pertlink's free 30-page playbook introduces Token Cost Per Guest and Token Cost Per Booking frameworks to help hoteliers budget for usage-based AI pricing ahead of 2027.

AHLA/HTNG named Hotel Shield winner of the 2026 TechOvation Award for its AI vision platform that detects human trafficking in hotels via real-time watchlist matching and staff alerts.

A sharp critique of how revenue managers conflate good outcomes with good strategy, and warns that AI tools risk automating overconfident explanations rather than genuine causal insight.

Using late checkout as a case study, this piece examines why hotel automation must propagate decisions across all affected teams and systems, not just update a single field in the PMS.

Beaumier's 10-hotel group cut reservation offer handling time by 80% using AI tool Altek integrated with Opera Cloud and Outlook, saving 47 hours of team capacity monthly.

Historic Hotels of America honored French Lick Resort CEO Chuck Franz for leading the rescue, restoration, and expansion of two of Indiana's most storied historic hotels.