The Weighted Hotel Minibar Is Wildly Outdated
The minibar is supposed to encourage spontaneous indulgence. Sensors totally kill the mood.
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The Rumors About the End of Google Search Are Highly Exaggerated
Google’s financial results for 2025 are out and they paint a very interesting picture of the state of traditional search engines vs AI search.
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OpenAI's 'stunning admission': Maybe people don't want to book stuff inside ChatGPT
Not so long ago, OpenAI would announce a grand expansion, and stocks in the relevant sector would swoon. Now, the opposite is happening.
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Hotel loses all coverage after lying about armed security guards
Lying on an insurance application has consequences – as one Oklahoma hotel discovered after a guest was fatally shot on its premises.
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Who needs PR in the age of AI: can’t ChatGPT just do it all for me?
Becca Krug, client services director at Davies Tanner, assesses the strategic role AI should and shouldn’t play in a hotel’s marketing and PR activity.
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Spain’s hotel sector poised for expansion in the budget and economy segment
The budget hotel segment might be the next star in Spain’s hospitality industry, with current offerings well below other European countries. A new report from Alvarez & Marsal analyzes the high expectations for the low-cost category of hotels from…
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From hotels to homes: How Airbnb is reshaping the sports events hospitality model
Airbnb’s partnerships with FIFA and the IOC are accelerating a shift from traditional hotel-centric stays to flexible, community-based hosting.
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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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Is Luxury Travel Really Built For Humans?
Luxury prides itself on intuitive service: anticipating what a guest needs before the guest articulates it — or even knows they need it, but there is one area where the industry consistently falls short: accessibility…
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Hilton: How Traveller's Sourcing Values Impact Procurement
Hilton’s Why We Gather report, produced with Ipsos, explores how travellers increasingly value transparency and community impact
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Who Owns The AI Hotel Stack? A 2×2 Market Map Of Venture Capital’s Biggest Bets
Venture capital has rarely moved with such conviction into a single industry vertical. In the past 18 months alone, more than $2 billion has flowed into AI-native hospitality technology startups, backing companies that promise to rewire everything…
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The unspoken hotel buffet rules revealed - as Brits say they prefer fruit salad to a full English
Making the important choice between fried and scrambled eggs, or both, at the hotel breakfast buffet is one of the many highlights of going away.
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Why Bob W treats hotels like software
What if a hotel operated less like a hotel, and more like software? In a recent episode ofMattTalks, Niko Karstikko, co-founder and CEO of Bob W, shared how his company is rethinking hospitality from the ground up. Bob W operates nearly 6,000…
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Hyatt Executive Chairman steps down amid scrutiny over Epstein connections
Tom Pritzker, executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels, has resigned following the release of U.S…
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Why the Hotel Bakery Is Becoming as Popular as the Hotel Bar
In late January, I pushed open a frosted door in Mayfair, London, and entered a different world, engulfed by the intoxicating scent of yeasty bread and caramelized sugar. I was 7 miles from my home in North London, yet I was mentally on vacation: at…
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Neuroscientist reveals first generation in history to be less intelligent than their parents
Dr Jared Cooney Horvath, a former teacher-turned-neuroscientist, revealed that the generation born between 1997 and the early 2010s has been cognitively stunted by their over-reliance on digital technology in school…
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Foreign investors flock to buy Thai hotels, with 2026 set to surpass THB12 billion
Foreign investors are driving the Thai hotel market, with 2026 set to see transactions exceed 12 billion baht, focusing on prime locations in Bangkok and Phuket.
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AI on Australian travel company website sends tourists to nonexistent hot springs
An AI-generated blog on a tour company’s website has landed tourists in hot water — and not the kind they were looking for — after it emerged the “tranquil” northern Tasmania hot springs it recommended don’t actually exist…
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