The 2026 WINiT Summit drew 200+ professionals to Fort Worth, TX, highlighting 1,300+ members across five chapters and a new CTM-partnered study on women's safety in business travel.

BLLA's 2026 Boutique Hotel Owners Conference drew international owners and operators to Westlake Village, covering guest experience, F&B sourcing, retail strategy, and AI visibility for independent hotels.

PressStays.com, launched by Pic PR, connects hotels with vetted journalists and influencers for press stays at £299/month, with 50+ hotels and 500 media members already signed up.

Hilton tops Fortune and Great Place to Work's U.S. Best Workplaces for Women list for the eighth straight year, citing caregiving, fertility, wellness and coaching programs as key drivers.

GuestCentric benchmark data from 800 hotel sites shows its platform enables AI systems to extract hotel data 91% faster, with AI-referred visitors converting at up to 11% vs. the 2% industry average.

Club Med's inaugural Art of Free Time Report, surveying 2,000 North Americans, finds 87% say obligations crowd out enjoyment and 91% define travel luxury as freedom over fine dining or pampering.

Deevana Hotels & Resorts targets a 45:55 plant-to-animal protein split across its southern Thailand properties by 2030, developed in partnership with NGO Lever Foundation.

Six senior commercial leaders from Rotana, Hyatt, Accor, Marriott and others share priorities for MEA hotels: unified commercial functions, rate discipline over discounting, and loyalty-led guest relationships.

Analysis of 2 million hotel emails across 48 properties finds reply quality, not speed, drives bookings, with complete answers converting at 58% vs 4%, and a €3.7M follow-up opportunity going largely untapped.

Using a flat-price F&B menu as a thought experiment, the author argues that uniform pricing removes a key tool for influencing customer choice and capturing willingness to pay.