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Hotels are complicated to run, but there is one easy concept: If revenues are higher than expenses, turning a profit is the result. Unfortunately, the broader hotel industry is looking down the barrel of a cost-filled gun that isn’t shooting blanks…
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The hospitality sector in South Africa is caught in a precarious balancing act, grappling with a myriad of challenges that threaten its recovery and future sustainability. According to the inaugural Hospitality Asset Management Company (HAMAC) South…
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The gap between Europe’s most expensive and cheapest destinations has nearly doubled in 10 years thanks to the growing cost of luxury properties.
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The World Inequality Report 2026 exposes an unprecedented wealth concentration crisis, revealing that just 56,000 ultra-wealthy individuals control more wealth than the poorest half of humanity combined, while calling for urgent global tax reforms…
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2026 will be defined by two forces: frictionless travel experiences and the industry’s struggle to keep up with AI‑driven change. The hotel industry needs to move from fragmentation to a unified system, but the speed of AI innovation is creating…
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About a year ago, I shared the Hotel Brand Pyramid a chart I had picked up at a seminar. It turned out to be both old and incomplete, and the feedback came in fast: wrong brands, missing brands, and far too simplistic for today’s hotel landscape…
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Economic uncertainty and shifting traveler habits reshaped hotel rates in early 2025. While most regions felt the pressure, a few notable markets managed to defy the trend.
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Price “remains king” when travel buyers are putting together their programmes of preferred hotels, according to new research from the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA).
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If your hotel is still using an outdated Comp Set—or worse, none at all—you’re flying blind. The right Comp Set is more than just a list of nearby hotels. It’s a strategic tool that helps you maximize revenue, control costs, and stay ahead of the…
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Phone inquiries haven’t gone away—but the way hotels handle them has. In fact, the guest journey is becoming increasingly voice-enabled, and AI is stepping in to handle the rising demand for instant, intelligent communication…
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The US hotel market is in the grip of a full‑blown conversion boom - and investors are here for it. Rising construction costs, tight zoning and a thirst for speed to market have pushed brand‑to‑brand and adaptive‑reuse projects to the front of deal…
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Hotel owners and investors who focus solely on top-line metrics like RevPAR are overlooking the hidden driver of profitability: a data-powered, performance-driven culture where employees are empowered with real-time insights that boost their…
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The global hospitality sector has enjoyed huge benefits from international travel, economic interconnections, and cross-border investments, all of which have been significantly shaped by the rise of globalisation. That ease of movement for tourists…
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CBRE’s 2025 Asia Pacific Hotel Investor Intentions Survey was conducted in November and December 2024…
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The hospitality and tech industries are navigating a liminal space where the boundaries between human and artificial are increasingly blurred. Generative AI, hyper-personalization, and digital workers are not merely disrupting established norms but…
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In the face of low or flat rate growth, hotels will turn to ecommerce, actionable data insights, and generative AI to maintain profitability.
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Despite the complex geopolitical outlook affecting markets at the dawn of 2025, savvy hospitality investors would do well to keep their eye on the long-term prize, experts suggest.
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The European hotel market is leading in price parity by outperforming OTAs and Metasearch engines with more aggressive pricing, according to the World Parity Monitor by 123Compare.me, giving hotels real-time control of its pricing distribution…
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