Geopolitical labour pipelines: The hidden cost of luxury hospitality
Luxury hospitality is one of the world's most globalised industries, relying heavily on migrant workers to deliver premium guest experiences.
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Why Hotel Distribution Is Still Broken, And What Comes Next
A couple of Saturdays back, a supplier asked us to block a user: 3,000-plus searches on one property, one set of dates, in 40 minutes. Normally that's fraud. It wasn't. It was an AI agent, a model wired to a headless browser…
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Hotels warned on AI readiness as tools gain traction
Access Hospitality has warned that many hotels are not ready to use artificial intelligence effectively, limiting the value they can get from AI tools.
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Hilton recognized hotel owner margins compressing. So it did something about it.
Hilton President and CEO Chris Nassetta reached back to COVID days to give context to some of the lodging company’s newest initiatives to alleviate the financial stress its hotel owners have endured.
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Trip.com Fined in China Antitrust Case as Price Wars Continue
China’s months-long antitrust probe into Trip.com Group Ltd. ended with a multi-billion-yuan penalty on the nation’s largest online travel agency, but the action does little to ease the fierce price wars gripping the domestic hotel sector…
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Childphobia and the rise of child-free tourism in hotels in southern Gran Canaria
They are conceived as parents' problemand there is no awareness that the children. They are not only children of their parents, but they are also children of society. And they make noise, they cry, they fight… which means the upbringing…
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Flyfi Launches Hotel Booking Platform With Cryptocurrency Payments and No Account Registration
Privacy-first travel platform debuts with dedicated hotel packages for Token2049, Singapore and Devcon 8 in Mumbai, letting attendees book and pay for accommodation straight from their wallet.
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The forgotten guest: The middle-market traveller left behind
The hotel industry's focus on luxury has left the middle-market traveller with fewer choices at a time when value has never mattered more.
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Claridge’s First Book Shows How It Became the Grand Dame of London Hotels
The famed locale just announced its first authorized biography. The ultimate insider’s guide to Claridge’s is finally here.
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Spanish hotel chain ceases operations in Cuba under pressure from Washington
Meliá group says Donald Trump’s sanctions make it ‘impossible’ to keep any of its 34 sites open.
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Research suggests that collecting these toiletries is usually less about saving money and more about how the brain processes rewards, possessions, and travel experiences…
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Hotel investment in Spain hits €2.46bn by June, up 26.5%
Investment in Spain's hotel sector continues to accelerate. During the first six months of 2026, 88 hotel assets and more than 12,000 rooms changed hands, pushing total investment to €2.46 billion, according to Colliers…
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Why Hotel Tech Companies Need to Spend More Time at Investment Conferences
There’s a famous quote often attributed to Henry Ford: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Whether he actually said it is almost beside the point. Customers are remarkably good at identifying today’s pain…
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Accessible Design Talk: Designing for our future selves
For the first time at MEET UP London, Hotel Designs brought a live panel to the event, with Editor Sophie Harper shining a light on what the future might look like for us all and what we should consider when designing for an ageing population……
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What Hospitality Brands Should Consider When Deploying AI
There is a version of AI adoption in hospitality that hotel leaders should resist: the version sold as a shortcut for fewer staff, fewer touches and fewer moments of genuine human connection…
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Hospitality Is Losing the First Job That Teaches People How to Work
The UK is confronting two workforce problems at the same time. Nearly one million people aged 16 to 24 are not in education, employment or training, prompting plans to expand work experience and employment support. Meanwhile, hospitality businesses…
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Hilton Plans Frankfurt Hotel Exit as US Sanctions Iranian Owner
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. is preparing to terminate two controversial hotel management agreements in Frankfurt after the US sanctioned the longtime registered owner of the properties and called him a “key financier” for Iran’s Supreme…
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Hotel and leisure injury claims: comparing liability and severity across England, the US and the UAE
At the Kennedys Global Liability Defence Group conference on 10 June 2026, lawyers from across our international offices explored emerging trends and challenges affecting liability exposures worldwide…
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