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Radisson wants to double its India portfolio to 500 hotels by 2030 without buying anything. Its CEO is betting on partnerships, smaller cities and a pitch that the group is a local company rather than a global one.
Whitbread wants investors to accept thinner profit now for a simpler, higher-returning Premier Inn later. But an activist investor at the door leaves little room for mistakes.
A smaller inventory, all-suite accommodation and a club designed into the property — Postcard Hotel’s Kapil Chopra says he is sure that enough buyers will pay for it.
The videos are cheap to make. Hotels pay the price in front desk resources and reputation.
Owners, not brands, carry most of the payroll burden. The union's answer is blunt: There is "enough money in this system." But owners see things differently.
Leisure demand is carrying Accor’s resorts while city hotels wait for corporate travel to return.
On this episode of Suite Success, host Katie Cline sits down with Angela Val, President and CEO of Visit Philadelphia, to talk about her remarkable journey from answering phones as the organization’s receptionist to ultimately leading it as CEO. Angela shares why she didn’t apply for the CEO role the first time it became available, […]
Asset-light growth can help hotel companies scale faster, but owners still carry the capital risk. Operators with skin in the game may be better positioned to test ideas, challenge investment assumptions, and focus on long-term hotel value.
Dubai’s luxury hotels face a choice between protecting rates and filling rooms. Value-adds let them do some of both. The question is how long their 2025 buffers will last.
Four years after Flyr bought its way into hotels, it's handing the unit to one of the two rivals Skift said it would have to beat.
Royal Orchid is betting India’s next hotel winners will follow travelers, not the old hotel map. The test now is making sure its brands don’t end up chasing the same customer under slightly different names.
Mews has nearly $20 billion flowing through its platform; the opportunity – and harder part – now is to capture more value from the money and operations it already touches.
As trips become more fragmented across providers, travelers still expect someone to step up when plans unravel. For travel brands, how they respond to disruption may be becoming as important to loyalty as the rewards they offer when everything goes right.
Wyndham's scale could help a brand that has been slow to get properties built.
There's no evidence of distressed sales in the Gulf hotel market. But the war clearly changed the math buyers need to close deals.
Hilton's CEO says he wants to make booking through AI agents easy. For now, Meta's Muse struggles to pull a price from hotel group sites, and OTAs may remain an easier door.
On this week's Good Morning Hospitality, A Skift Podcast: Hotels Edition, Sarah Dandashy and Steve Turk dig into two stories that have real implications for hotel operators heading into the fall.
On this episode of Suite Success, host Katie Cline sits down with Anuraag Bhatnagar, CEO of The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts, and explores his hospitality “calling,” hiring for values, and delivering luxury through deep human connection and anticipatory service rather than transactions.
Hotel tech investments keep climbing, but profits aren't keeping pace. Can hotels promise that AI will mean no job cuts and a payoff on the P&L at the same time?
A single resort opening is reshaping how an entire destination's hotels renovate, price and package their rooms — well before its doors open.
