Hotel leaders to explore the use of AI and guests experience goals at TIS2024
The fifth edition of TIS – Tourism Innovation Summit will take place from October 23 to 25, 2024 in Seville, Spain.
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Redefining Hotel Search for Travel’s Experiential Era
Travel search and booking has long been a four-box checklist for the hospitality industry: destination, dates, number of people, and budget. The traveler fills out the basics of a trip, and the supplier — a hotel, an airline, a travel agency —…
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Tassos Kotzanastassis: How drones and AI can reshape hospitality real estate
Tassos Kotzanastassis is the founder and managing director 8G Group, a private equity real estate group,and a founding partner at Petra Hospitality Management, a hotel management company based in Istanbul and focusing on Turkey, East Mediterranean…
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Silicon valley’s tech bros are having a difficult few weeks. A growing number of investors worry that artificial intelligence (ai) will not deliver the vast profits they seek. Since peaking last month the share prices of Western firms driving…
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Cvent announces AI-powered offerings for hoteliers
Cvent unveiled new AI-powered solutions within the Cvent Supplier Network (CSN), including a natural language search feature.
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FROM SECURITY TO CLOUD, 4 TECH INSIGHTS FROM HOSPITALITY EXECS
Where should the hospitality industry be putting its technology investment? Cloud computing? Artificial intelligence? Sunsetting legacy technology? What are the priorities and is it spending enough?
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Brains Behind the Bots: Field Notes from the AI Underground
In March 2024, visionary leader Elon Musk opened another artificial intelligence startup, xAI, as an open-source challenge to ChatGPT, which is owned by OpenAI. Then IBM announced it was slashing its staff size in its increasing adoption of…
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Personalization viewed as a key driver of commercial value for hoteliers, as 85% of hoteliers feel it could help deliver in excess of 5% in incremental revenue
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Report: Tripadvisor Considering Takeover Bid From Apollo Global Management
Tripadvisor is reportedly considering a takeover bid from Apollo Global Management…
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Google Shifts Hotel Ads To AI-Powered Bidding Strategies
Google to phase out cookie-based Hotel Ad strategies, introduces AI-driven tROAS and expands Performance Max for travel…
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How AI Turbocharges Attribute-Based Shopping, Enabling Hotels to Increase Revenue and Profitability
Artificial intelligence (AI) is at the forefront of hospitality technology heading into 2024, and in looking at specific tasks where it can be deployed, a very lucrative application is in attribute-based shopping (ABS)…
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Hotel rooms are starting to feel like they were made just for you. Personalized music plays when you open the door. Lighting and air-conditioning are set to your ideal levels…
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How Dorsett Hotels’ investment in technology is paying off
Hong Kong hospitality brand Dorsett is creating a more tech-centric guest experience at its Gold Coast and Melbourne hotels with the roll out of smart solutions across numerous touchpoints in the guest experience, from pre-arrival to check out…
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How Generative AI Tools Can Evolve (and Increase) Direct Hotel Bookings
Generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are all the rage right now, with new announcements every week, especially in the hospitality industry…
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Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings says AI has helped generate leads
Norwegian Cruise Line has reported a string of record-breaking booking months this year, thanks in part to using AI technology to generate leads, said Harry Sommer, CEO of parent company Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings…
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