Articles tagged “hotels”

Hotel groups are increasingly sharing AI risks openly. But Hyatt and others have no choice but to keep experimenting.

Hyatt’s real estate sell-off is largely complete. The focus now shifts from asset sales to sustaining fee growth.

Marriott is the first major hotel to publicly discuss its work with Google on its upcoming agentic AI travel booking tool. But it raises more questions than answers — especially whether AI Mode offers in-chat checkout for partners and link-outs for everyone else.

Consumer love for travel, rising demographics, and exciting innovation square off against unstable geopolitics, affordability challenges, and a lukewarm economic expansion

Cruises are carrying TUI’s results, but distribution is moving away from the web and toward apps and artificial intelligence.

Choice must prove its partner-led, franchise-only model can overcome a regional track record of slow builds and unrealized projects.

Africa’s tourism growth challenge isn’t demand — it’s execution: scaling reliable operations, mid-market infrastructure, and globally exportable talent to turn world-class assets into sustainable volume growth.

L+R’s reorganization underscores a broader trend in how specialist investors aim to get an edge over generalist real estate funds in hotel investing. Its plan to spend over $250 million on properties in its new Iconic hotel collection is one example.

F&B is a major revenue driver for hotels. But it is likely that the boom from banqueting is overshadowing how room guests are no longer willing to pay through their nose when options are just a click away.

Approaching his fifth anniversary as CEO, Anthony Capuano has restructured the world's largest hotel company to move faster and try to put guests first.