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.

Hoteza earned the EcoVadis Committed Badge and outlines how its digital guest journey tools can help hotels reduce paper use, support energy efficiency, and promote sustainable guest behaviors.

Italian writer Simone Puorto launches a new book on Ian Curtis and Joy Division in Macclesfield on 26 October 2026, exploring pilgrimage and cultural afterlife around the late singer.

Lighthouse research across 40 destinations confirms flight searches predict occupancy 9-10 weeks out and hotel searches 4-5 weeks out, with strongest signals at leisure and event destinations.

PATA's Annual Tourism Monitor 2026 shows Asia Pacific reached 96.3% of 2019 arrival levels in early 2026, with Korea and Vietnam outperforming while the USA and Thailand declined.