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Ras Al Khaimah Hotels Renovate to Capture the ‘Wynn Effect’
A single resort opening is reshaping how an entire destination's hotels renovate, price and package their rooms — well before its doors open.
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Minor Hotels Wants a ‘Vietnam Network,’ Not Just Beach Resorts
Minor Hotels built its Vietnam business around overseas travelers heading to the beach. Now rising domestic travel, corporate business and meetings are giving the hotel group a reason to move into Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
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Accor’s Leire Leoz on Why Franchise Growth Has to Be Earned
Accor is betting heavily on its franchise model, and the Group’s global chief franchise officer, Leire Leoz, says growth only works if owners see real value. Her focus is on hotel performance, stronger brand standards, simpler support, and giving franchisees more reasons to stay and invest again.
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Choice Hotels Buys RV Club Harvest Hosts for $130 Million
Choice CEO Dom Dragisich will need to show that Harvest Hosts, a list of a half-million RV users, converts into hotel stays. Otherwise, he's drifting from the "top priority" he set after taking the job of driving net rooms growth.
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Radisson Adds Older Hotels and Meeting Spaces to Net Zero Program
The four new Verified Net Zero Hotels are based in Stockholm and Copenhagen, reinforcing the scheme’s Nordic skew and highlighting a key bottleneck in scaling decarbonization: access to renewable energy.
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Rotana CEO: Last-Minute Gulf Bookings Make Q4 Hard To Predict
The expected return of international travelers and a busy events calendar give hope for a Q4 recovery.
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Hilton Tech Exec Says AI Agents Put OTAs ‘Under Real Threat’
Hilton CIO Michael Leidinger believes the OTAs' decline will benefit hotels, even while conceding that AI agents will likely charge commissions, too. The difference is that Hilton will get more bookings on its site and app.
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Skift Webinar: When AI Becomes the Travel Agent — How Hotels Get Chosen
Join Skift and industry leaders for a webinar exploring how AI is changing hotel discovery and booking. Learn how travelers are using and trusting AI, why accurate property information matters more than ever, and what hotels can do now to ensure they’re accurately understood, confidently recommended, and easily booked.
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EU Anti-Greenwashing Rules Take Effect— and Some Eco-Labels May Not Survive
Hotel and airline sustainability chiefs welcome the enforcement of legislation that they expect will cut the number of eco-labels — the question is, which ones will survive?
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Hilton’s Motto Debut in Japan Signals a Bigger Mid-Market Shift
If Japan reaches 60 million visitors by 2030 as planned, hotel companies will need more rooms, and more affordable ones. And that is exactly what Hilton aims to do.
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How Hotel CEOs Are Really Using AI, From Voice Agents to a Digital Hyatt CEO
Hilton, Hyatt, Accor, Wyndham, and Banyan Group all agree AI should make staff better at their jobs. But they split on how to adopt it.
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Airbnb CEO on Hotels, Cars, and Flights: ‘I Had to Get Over My Ideology’
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky didn't address at length his changing views about Airbnb experiences, but there, too, he's softened his old religion about them having to be unique, and has added mainstream tours and activities.
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French hotels, souvenir shops benefit from pope business boost
Monday is the final day of Pope Leo'svisit to France and the trip has been marked not only by an outpouring of emotion from France's Catholics but also flurry of economic activity. The first figures are beginning to come in from the pope's trip, and unsurprisingly, they're showing a big boost in tourism activity related to his appearances - with hotels and restaurants in and around the cities he's visited getting a particular benefit.
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Hilton’s New Brand Blueprint Could Cut Energy Bills Up To 40%
Home2 Suites clean energy prototype is a zero-emissions design — but it’s voluntary. Hilton’s sustainability chief Jean Garris Hand is hoping that high energy bills will encourage uptake.
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15 great small hotels, inns and restaurants with rooms for an autumn stay in the UK
From a cosy Cornish inn with open fires to a boutique hotel in Northumberland, these new and revamped boltholes tick all the right boxes • 15 great cottages and cabins for an autumn escape in the UK Continue reading...
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Independence at Scale: Paradox or Opportunity?
For any owner-operator or investor weighing a big-brand flag against independence, the economics of that choice are shifting.
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Accor’s CEO Weighs ‘Complex’ Decision on Ennismore IPO and How to Fund U.S. Growth
Ennismore is Accor's best shot at gaining a U.S. foothold. But ambition isn't a funding plan, and CEO Sébastien Bazin hasn't yet said where the capital to expand Ennismore would come from, such as an IPO.
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How to Create Value for Owners and Guests
The companies that invest on behalf of owners build a different kind of customer loyalty.
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How to Plan for an Uncertain Future
Every global hospitality company is deciding whether to optimize for margin or for reach. Accor is choosing reach.
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Hotels, AI, and Building for Long-Term Economic Value
Every hotel company is telling owners and franchisees that AI will improve their business. Ballotti is showing them the numbers.