Hotel Speak

JUNE 20, 2025

To earn more bookings from these adrenaline-hungry adventurers, you need to make an intentional effort to communicate the activities available around your hotel, and, ideally, that your team can handle all of their excursion bookings and arrange their itineraries. Often, these travellers choose to travel locally, but not always.

Travel

Hospitality Today

JUNE 10, 2025

For years, hospitality teams have struggled to create visual content that is fast, beautiful, and brand-aligned—without draining budgets or time. Those who adapt and guide these tools with strategy and intention will unlock a powerful creative edge in the battle for attention—and bookings. Test what works—and repeat.

Hotel Marketing

Hotel Business

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Accentuated by upticks in brand loyalty and outbound tourism, Americans expressed their strong appetite for travel in the Winter Edition of MMGY s Portrait of American Travelers study. travel consumers, the survey found that nearly 8 in 10 U.S. A quarterly examination of the evolving habits, preferences and behaviors of todays U.S.

Travel

Hospitality Tech

JUNE 11, 2025

For hotel staff, the combined power of IRIS’s intuitive mobile ordering and the Alliants Experience Platform - including its Concierge and Messaging modules - streamlines the management of guest requests, reduces administrative workload, and eliminates time-consuming manual processes.

Services

STAAH

JULY 1, 2025

Use pre-written templates or AI for faster response and maintain a friendly, consistent brand tone. Use STAAH to assign and control rate visibility by channel , keeping your pricing structure clean and intentional. Personalise your review responses using STAAH’s AI tool, instead of relying on generic templates.

OTA

Hotel Business

MARCH 26, 2025

Developers who succeed in challenging markets are intentional about where they build and what they build. Consumer preferences continue to evolve, and travelers today are seeking more than just a place to sleep. Lifestyle brands, soft-branded hotels and well-designed upper-upscale concepts are resonating with both guests and investors.

Market

Social Hospitality

MAY 8, 2025

AI-powered personalization tools handle tasks that used to consume staff time, such as sorting guest data or sending personalized offers. Targeted social campaigns : Hotels partner with influencers and run highly targeted ads to reach specific travel segments, increasing brand awareness and conversions.

Digital Marketing

Hospitality Tech

JUNE 11, 2025

Whether by phone, text, email, or chat, VAIA speaks with a warm, empathetic and conversational tone that reflects the property’s brand voice. VAIA boosts incremental revenue by offering timely upsell opportunities for room upgrades, spa appointments, dining reservations, and more - triggered automatically based on guest behavior and intent.

Hospitality

Hospitality Tech

JUNE 11, 2025

Whether by phone, text, email, or chat, VAIA speaks with a warm, empathetic and conversational tone that reflects the property’s brand voice. VAIA boosts incremental revenue by offering timely upsell opportunities for room upgrades, spa appointments, dining reservations, and more - triggered automatically based on guest behavior and intent.

Hospitality

Hospitality Tech

JUNE 24, 2025

By adopting CPI, hotels under Wyndhams 25 brands don’t need to purchase or maintain expensive on-site hardware for their property management system. This tech upgrade aligns with a larger brand transformation—including brighter, more inviting store designs and a reimagined menu aimed at families and food lovers alike.

Events

Hospitality Tech

JUNE 24, 2025

This tech upgrade aligns with a larger brand transformation—including brighter, more inviting store designs and a reimagined menu aimed at families and food lovers alike. By blending speed, convenience, and hospitality, the brand is building a future-ready experience for guests across the country.

Events

Hospitality Today

JULY 17, 2025

For hotel marketers, this marks a shift from transactional targeting to influencing high-intent users at the inspiration phase, with dynamic, visual-first content embedded in the search experience. AI reshapes when and how brands reach travelers: Ads are no longer reserved for bottom-funnel, booking-intent searches.

Intent

eHotelier

JUNE 5, 2025

The newly-created role follows the successful opening of the voco Zeal Exeter Science Park , IHG’s first branded net zero carbon hotel. It is important to us that we meet our ambitions of true net zero carbon, by producing more energy than we consume over an annual period.

Construction

Hospitality Tech

JUNE 16, 2025

Lybra Assistant is ideal for all properties with more than 20 rooms, from independent hotels and branded groups, and those offering both leisure and business segments. Brands Yum! Brands, Inc. By adopting Lybra Assistant, hotels can save up to 1,000 hours of manual work per year. 6/16/2025 Chris Turner Promoted to CEO of Yum!

Upsell

Hospitality Tech

JUNE 16, 2025

“The name ‘Hotel Internet Services’ has been a successful brand, but no longer captures who we’ve become or where we’re going,” said Gary Patrick, CEO of Touchstone1. Brands Yum! Brands, Inc. By adopting Lybra Assistant, hotels can save up to 1,000 hours of manual work per year. Turner has served as Yum!

Services

eHotelier

JULY 8, 2025

Contrarily, there’s also a risk to not incorporating wellness amenities to varying degrees, especially for hotel brands that have a need to differentiate themselves in order to command above-market rates. The courtyard at THE WELL Bay Harbor Hotels are increasingly getting involved in the wellness real estate market via branded residences.

Real Estate

Hospitality Tech

JUNE 24, 2025

Tasks deemed suitable for AI include repetitive, data-intensive, or time-consuming duties such as summarizing policies, creating schedules, verifying paychecks, and approving time-off requests. By blending speed, convenience, and hospitality, the brand is building a future-ready experience for guests across the country.

Events

Social Hospitality

JULY 24, 2025

Today’s buyers move fluidly from spotting a problem to championing a brand, and they expect personalized experiences at every turn. This overview illustrates how prospects discover a need, evaluate options, make a decision, remain loyal, and become brand champions. Every purchase begins with a question. Why Map the Journey?

Branding

Hospitality Tech

JUNE 23, 2025

“Having a captive audience for at least eight hours of a guest stay while they sleep is a great privilege , however the real potential for hotel brands lies in creating experiences that extend beyond just an overnight visit,” added Valtr. It’s about offering them the experiences they want, no matter where they are. between Apr.

Travel

Hospitality Today

JULY 17, 2025

Instead of delivering static lists of links, Google’s AI will guide users through personalized discovery journeys, dramatically shifting how content is surfaced and brands are found online. This marks a shift from static search to dynamic, intent-driven exploration. For now, travel brands still control the final step of the funnel.

Travel

Hotel Business

JULY 22, 2025

The gesture wasn’t grand or scripted, but it was intentional and personal. While other sectors chase transformation, the best hospitality brands have invested in the basics: clarity of purpose, consistency of leadership, and systems that reinforce values every single day. We remembered. We anticipated. This article isn’t about hotels.

Hospitality

Travel Media Group

JULY 2, 2025

Bryan joins the podcast to discuss founding Aligned Hospitality, the meaning behind the brand, technology in hospitality, improving the guest experience, and much more. From the logo, brand colors, even the name. And, you know, I’m a sales guy, so we gotta do all this in branding, branding, branding.

Hospitality

Hospitality Tech

JUNE 23, 2025

With several branded properties in major German cities – including THE Hotels, Felix Hotels and Ibis – fidelis has saved huge amounts of staff hours and reduced errors in administration and data management. With a small team, it is time-consuming to monitor multiple partners – this leads to failures and problems.

Operations

Hotel Management

JULY 29, 2025

Five Ovolo hotels across Australia and Hong Kong will join the Wyndham hotel brand in the coming months, under a strategic partnership between Wyndham Hotels and Resorts and Ovolo Group. The future of travel isn’t about sameness—it’s about spaces with soul, brands with a point of view and experiences that don’t blur into the background.”

Intent

Hospitality Tech

JUNE 23, 2025

What’s being reclaimed isn’t just volume — it’s high-intent reservations that were already in motion, simply interrupted. But it points to a clear trend: today’s cautious traveler often needs a little extra reassurance to move from intent to action — and small, well-timed nudges are helping hosts recover significant revenue.

Scale

Hospitality Tech

JUNE 23, 2025

What’s being reclaimed isn’t just volume — it’s high-intent reservations that were already in motion, simply interrupted. But it points to a clear trend: today’s cautious traveler often needs a little extra reassurance to move from intent to action — and small, well-timed nudges are helping hosts recover significant revenue.

Scale

Hospitality Tech

JUNE 10, 2025

Symbiosys is a next-generation retail media platform that helps brands expand their reach into digital channels, such as search, social, and display, and enables retailers to extend the breadth of their retail media networks. “We’re building the future of local commerce advertising,” said Toby Espinosa, VP of Ads at DoorDash.

Hiring

Hotel Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The brand is focused on delivering the fundamentals of seamless business and leisure travel, including clean, comfortable rooms, breakfast, free Wi-Fi and friendly service with a localised design. The latest brand from Marriott aligns with the group’s strategy of offering regionally relevant lodging products for a variety of purposes.

Consumer

Hotel Designs

JULY 10, 2025

Their appointment recognises an evolving agency landscape, where the opportunity to connect Brand and Space is growing for both clients and consumers. “At We see the future of design as integrated, experience-led, and culturally progressive, where brand and space, emotional resonance and sustainability exist in deliberate balance.

Intent

Hotel Speak

APRIL 4, 2023

The concept of what makes a luxury brand an attractive option worth buying into is undergoing a massive mind shift. This is especially true for the future luxury consumers, often referred to as the Millennials and Gen Z, or even more precisely HENRYs (‘High earners, not rich yet’). What can luxury brands do?

Branding

Hospitality Tech

JULY 28, 2025

7/19/2025 Craveworthy Brands, Branded Hospitality Invest in Digital Menu Tech Craveworthy Brands has selected Vistify Inc. to manage digital menus across its emerging concepts, and is joining as a Series A investor, backed by Branded Hospitality Ventures. A location in San Francisco is also scheduled to open.

Branding

MediaBoom

MARCH 15, 2024

Nowadays, luxury brands face the unique challenge of maintaining exclusivity while expanding their reach to the discerning online shopper. Digital marketing for luxury brands encompasses a tailored set of strategic initiatives aimed at elevating the brand’s online presence and captivating discerning consumers.

Digital Marketing

MediaBoom

JUNE 10, 2024

According to a study, 74% of companies report that content marketing increases their lead generation efforts, emphasizing its heightened importance for luxury brands. By presenting sophisticated, detail-oriented content, this strategy enhances brand perception and fosters stronger customer relationships among affluent audiences.

Branding

Hotelier Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The company found in its recent Mid-Year 2024 Consumer Sentiment and Travel Expectations Report that 88 per cent of consumers are showing a steady intent to travel for leisure. The post Hyatt Grows Luxury and Lifestyle Brand Footprint Across the Americas appeared first on Hotelier Magazine.

Branding

Hotel Business

JANUARY 25, 2024

Cities that focus on intentional tourism and leverage technology will garner long-term investor interest, with foreign capital likely to be the most acquisitive in 2024. This expansion presents investment and innovation opportunities, where investors should carefully consider brand choices as they are buying into an entire ecosystem.

Consumer

Hotel Management

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Accor’s economy hotel brand Ibis, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this month, has launched a new global brand campaign centred around its core value proposition of making travel accessible for all. Whatever the reason for their travel, wherever they are in the world, there’s an Ibis to help guests Go get it.”

Travel

Hotel Management

JANUARY 16, 2024

Our sense of smell is so powerful, yet it’s often forgotten by brands when they create experiences. Imagine the incredible opportunities for brands that tap into that. How can signature scents aid in branding and storytelling? How important is scent in evoking memories? Hotels just don’t do it enough.

Branding