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Hotel Discovery in the Age of AI, Part 25: How AI Decides Which Hotel(s) to Recommend
Exclusive Feature: Understanding the logic behind AI-driven shortlists and recommendations
Hotel Discount Rates and Equity Yields: A Decade of Shifting Investor Expectations
Over the past decade, equity yields for hotel investments have declined steadily across all segments, reflecting growing investor confidence in the asset class
Safeguarding Value: Hotel Asset Management & Crisis Response in Asia Pacific
The ongoing Middle East crisis continues to exert a significant impact on the global #hospitality sector, including several markets in Asia Pacific, with flight disruptions, increased cancellations, and rising travel costs due to rerouting ...
Hotel Discovery in the Age of AI, Part 24: Why Hotel Guests Finally Want To Be In Charge
Exclusive Feature: How shifting expectations around control, personalization, and transparency reshape hotel discovery
How AI and Robotics Will Define Hotel Winners When Supply Surges
Hotel markets are experiencing their most significant supply surge in over two decades, tech-driven upgrades and resources will help your hotel stand out
Hotel Discovery in the Age of AI, Part 23: Agency in an AI-Mediated Travel World
Exclusive Feature: How decision-making power may shift between travelers, platforms, and AI systems
The Real ROI of Hotel Robots: Staff, Guests, and the Bottom Line
Nine years ago, I stood at a trade show watching a delivery robot navigate around a mock hotel lobby and my first thought? 'Interesting gimmick', my second? 'Will guests actually want this?'
Hotel Discovery in the Age of AI, Part 22: Trust as the New Currency of Hotel Discovery
Exclusive Feature: Why credibility increasingly determines which hotels AI systems recommend
Global Branded Residences Guide
In collaboration with Global Branded Residences, we are proud to present our Branded Residences Guide – a practical overview of the evolving landscape, playbook and commercial dynamics shaping this fast-growing asset class
Hotel Discovery in the Age of AI, Part 21: Can Travelers Finally Own Their Data in an AI-First Environment?
For more than two decades, travel data has largely been accumulated, analyzed, and monetized by platforms: search engines, OTAs, metasearch engines, and social networks have built powerful models by aggregating user behavior at scale
What Makes a Hotel Feasibility Study Truly Reliable?
A hotel feasibility study can make or break a development project, but too often, these studies lean toward optimism rather than reality
Hotel Discovery in the Age of AI, Part 20: How AI Reshapes the Economics of Direct Hotel Booking
Exclusive Feature: Why distribution strategy must adapt when AI becomes the primary decision interface
Will Google’s New Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) Turn Hotel Distribution Upside Down?
This very timely question was asked a World Panel of hospitality revenue optimization and technology experts
What Every Owner Needs to Know Before Deciding to Sell, Hold, or Renovate in 2026
US hotels had a difficult year in 2025, with RevPAR down 0,3%—the first non-recessionary decline on record
Hotel Discovery in the Age of AI, Part 19: Neutrality as a Long-Term Competitive Advantage
Exclusive Feature: Why unbiased positioning becomes a decisive factor in AI-driven hotel discovery
Hotel Discovery in the Age of AI, Part 18: Auditing Your Hotel for AI Readiness
Exclusive Feature: A practical framework for assessing whether your hotel is discoverable, understandable, and recommendable by AI systems
Hotel Discovery in the Age of AI, Part 17: From Visibility to Conversion in AI Travel Journeys
Exclusive Feature: How AI-driven discovery reshapes the path from recommendation to booking
Hotel Discovery in the Age of AI, Part 16: Data Governance and Ownership in an AI Driven Travel Ecosystem
Exclusive Feature: As AI becomes a primary interface between travelers and hotels, a quiet but consequential question moves to the foreground: who governs the data that AI systems rely on to make recommendations?
The Secure AI Advantage: Governance and Trust in Travel Technology
Agentic AI isn’t just smart; it’s autonomous, capable of making decisions and taking actions without waiting for human input
Turning Complexity into Clarity: How Technology Is Reshaping Hotel Performance
Exclusive Feature: The path to commercial success in hospitality is becoming increasingly complex: guest expectations continue to rise and market conditions can rapidly change
Hotel Discovery in the Age of AI, Part 15: When Basic Hotel Data Is No Longer Enough for AI Discovery
Exclusive Feature: In earlier parts of this series, we established a critical shift: AI driven discovery does not reward presence alone
Hotel Discovery in the Age of AI, Part 14: Beyond OTAs: The Four Core Layers That Define AI Visibility for Hotels
Why AI-driven discovery rewards structure, authority, and coherence more than distribution scale
The Hidden Cost of Running a Hotel Without a Clear Brand Compass
Most hospitality founders believe brand problems show up in marketing; low direct bookings, weak differentiation, inconsistent social presence
Hotel Discovery in the Age of AI, Part 13: Measuring AI Visibility and Performance
How hotels can evaluate whether they are findable, intelligible, and competitive in AI-driven travel environments
The Future of Hospitality Is in a Fine-Tuned Blend of Humans and Technology
Converging Forces – The Future is Hybrid by Design is exploring how hoteliers are responding to the accelerating technology challenges and opportunities
Hotel Discovery in the Age of AI, Part 12: How AI Interprets Hotel Imagery
Hotel photography has long been a branding asset, but in an AI-first world it becomes something more fundamental: a verification layer
Getting Technical With What a Centralized Hotel Platform Can Enable
Those who know me know that I relish in the technical details of how specific features on software systems work, how integrations are built and how relational databases can be linked to integrate fields or perform valuable queries
The Future of Rankings, Composite Scores and Semantic Trust Signals - Hotel Discovery in the Age of AI, Part 11
Exclusive Feature: In earlier parts of this series, we explored how AI systems reshape hotel discovery, how visibility is earned through trust rather than promotion, and why remaining in the AI consideration set is now central to long term ...
Barry Diller: On truth, End of Google Search and Travel’s Endurance
I’ve long been a fan of Barry Diller, so when he walked onto the Phocuswright Centre Stage in San Diego, 20 years after his last appearance, I was all agog with anticipation – as were the delegates in the room
2025 Labor Costs and Trends: How US Hotels Tightened Labor Models to Protect Margins
Hotels entered the year with high revenue expectations and tighter GOP targets, labor has shaped hotel performance more than any other cost category in 2025
Hotel Discovery in the Age of AI, Part 10: AI and Luxury Brand Positioning: Staying in the Consideration Set
Exclusive Feature: In luxury hospitality, brand strength has traditionally been built through service excellence, design, narrative consistency, and reputation among discerning travelers
Hotel Discovery in the Age of AI, Part 9: Independent Platforms vs OTAs: Who Owns Your Visibility
Exclusive Feature: As the earlier parts of this series have shown, AI now acts as both interpreter and gatekeeper in hotel discovery
How AI is Changing the Hospitality Guest Journey
Explore the future of hospitality and discover how AI is transforming the guest experience from discovery to booking and beyond
Hotel Discovery in the Age of AI, Part 8: Why Guest Reviews Still Matter for AI Visibility
Exclusive Feature: Dynamic trust signals remain central to AI recommendations and brand perception
EBITDA Is a False Signal in Hotels: Here’s Why Owners Keep Getting Burned
One of the biggest financial misunderstandings in hospitality is the blind worship of EBITDA
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