Mahjong clinics and retreats are growing at hotels
At luxury hotels across the country, a new kind of evening activity is appearing alongside winetastings and wellness classes…
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Rooms with a pulse: Bus Palladium, Paris’s historic night club-turned-boutique stay
The Studio KO-designed hotel’s past life as a concert hall in Paris nightlife district Pigalle has played a central role in its transformation into a music-lover’s hotel.
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For decades, coffee shops have represented the most visible and aspirational part of the coffee industry. Expanding through physical retail locations was widely viewed as a sign of growth, scale, and market dominance…
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Common User Experience UX Pitfalls That Kill Hotel Website Conversions and How to Fix Them
You can drive all the traffic in the world to your website, but if the experience is frustrating, confusing, or slow, guests will not book. They will leave and often head straight to an OTA where the process feels easier…
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Love the scent of your luxury hotel? Buy a bottle and take it home
Luxury travel has a new currency: feeling. Destination still matters but so does the sensation that lingers long after departure. Emotion, not acquisition, now defines the modern travel experience, and hotels are extending that connection beyond…
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How hotels are protecting margins in a high-cost environment
The global hotel sector is entering a period where profitability is increasingly shaped by cost discipline rather than demand alone.
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When even Park Hyatt embraces all-inclusive, something more fundamental is shifting
I came across an announcement this week that made me pause and not because it was particularly loud, but precisely because it wasn’t.
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BWH Hotels Stakes Its Claim in the Glamping Space Through Its WorldHotels Brand
Best Western Hotels Group has no intention of ceding the luxury outdoor hospitality segment to its global competitors. The group has just launched WorldHotels Backdrop, a new collection of upscale glamping retreats and nature-driven escapes across…
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From hotel suites to sub-surface transit: Gordon Hartman details future of Morgan’s expansion
The world’s first ultra-accommodating hotel will open later this year even as another ambitious project is brewing beneath the surface of the former quarry in Northeast San Antonio.
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Postpartum care services in hotels gain traction among new mothers in Japan
For many new mothers, questions about breastfeeding, weaning and returning to work can feel overwhelming. As a result, a growing number in Japan are turning to postpartum care services offered by private companies, where midwives and nurses provide…
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AHICE South East Asia 2026 wrap-up: the hot trends, new properties and essential market analysis
The leading investors, owners, developers, hoteliers, advisers and suppliers from across South East Asia were in Singapore this month (Mar 10-11) with AHICE back in the city over two action packed days. Roderick Eime reports…
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When the System Starts Thinking for You
The hotel’s revenue manager arrives at 8:47 on a Tuesday morning, her screen is already populated with recommendations, pickup has been analyzed and competitor rates have been scanned.
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Malaysia pushes hotel check-in and check-out times into tourism policy debate
Malaysia’s Tourism, Arts and Culture Ministry has urged hotels to offer guests a 23-hour stay, using a model such as 2pm check-in and 1pm check-out, as the country prepares for Visit Malaysia 2026.
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The Weighted Hotel Minibar Is Wildly Outdated
The minibar is supposed to encourage spontaneous indulgence. Sensors totally kill the mood.
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Hotel Managers Switch Roles for Career Development
Two hotel managers in the North West have swapped respective job roles and venues to obtain more experience and develop their professional skills.
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Site to be Turned into Europe’s Largest Hotel
StepStone and Proprium’s a&o Hostels acquires former office in central Berlin for conversion into Europe’s largest hostel.
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Patience or pretending? Financial stress tests hotel owners’ ability to hold
Kenny Rogers never sang about debt yields or PIPs, yet he still managed to offer some of the best investment advice in the industry: «You've got to know when to hold 'em, Know when to fold 'em, Know when to walk away, And know when to run»…
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Biohacking To Business Travel: Hospitality As Longevity Laboratory
Longevity has become a $4.6 trillion conversation. But so far, much of it has been happening in the wrong rooms. Cryogenic chambers. Extreme fasting retreats. $2,000-a-night wellness clinics. Supplements with Latin names and price tags to match. The…
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