Shanghai's Premier Hospitality and Design Event: Hotel & Shop Plus 2025
HOTEL & SHOP PLUS, a leading trade fair for the hospitality industry, is set to kick off on March 31, 2025, at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre…
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Shanghai's Premier Hospitality and Design Event: Hotel & Shop Plus 2025
HOTEL & SHOP PLUS, a leading trade fair for the hospitality industry, is set to kick off on March 31, 2025, at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre…
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Federal Govt invests $10m in recruitment & training platform available to hospitality sector
A new $10 million careers and training platform targeting three industries including hospitality has been unveiled by Australia's Minister for Trade and Tourism Don Farrell and Accommodation Australia…
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AI - From Buzz to Practical Implementations in Hospitality
There has been a lot of buzz and heated discussions about the role and impact of AI in the hospitality industry and travel in general.
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Hotels Will Start Selling So Much More Than Rooms
For years, hotels have treated their digital storefronts with all the imagination of a Soviet-era grocery. Guests faced dreary drop-down menus that reduced the art of hospitality to generic choices like “Economy Standard” and “1 Queen Bed Suite.”…
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Accor teams with space exploration company Orbite to forge new frontiers in hospitality
Orbite has raised $4 million in series A funding to grow its private luxury astronaut business and develop its Spaceflight Gateway Campus.
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Travel agent’s chatty AI call-handlers take off
Recordings of eight million conversations helped create robot staff who don’t need sleep — including Donnie, who recommends a ‘beautiful’ stay in Washington DC
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How hospitality companies are redefining the customer experience
Personalisation, food & beverage, and market research are fundamental to creating hospitality experiences that increase loyalty and revenue.
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Telephones In Hotel Bathrooms? Know Why This Vintage Luxury Has Now Run Out Of Fashion
For travelers in the 1980s and 1990s, having a telephone in a hotel bathroom was considered a hallmark of luxury. Alongside televisions above bathtubs, bathroom phones symbolised an era of opulence. Their presence in five-star hotels was a clear…
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On November 26, the China Hotel Overseas Investment Conference, hosted by Sunmei Hotels Group, was successfully held at Mövenpick by Accor Qingdao Sunmei.
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Google’s Removing Elements From Hotel Search Results in EU to Comply With the DMA
Google has announced that it’s running a test which will see it remove various elements from its search results for hotel queries in Europe, which could impact hotel marketers.
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E-Sports meets hospitality in tourism game
Wanda Hotel & Resorts, Tencent E-Sports and Jingxiang Technology officially launched the new e-sports hotel brand Jingsheng Hotel at Changbai Mountain Wanda International Resort in Baishan, Jilin province…
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Overwhelming hotel tech market whittled down to 3 key factors
We’re drowning in a sea of technological ‘solutions’. But what are hoteliers really looking for in technology today? When all is said and done, it comes down to three key areas…
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Les Roches and ILUNION Hotels unveil the first Hotel Innovation Barometer, offering a comprehensive look at how over 40 international hotel companies of various sizes are leveraging innovation to boost competitiveness…
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Hotel Assistant: World’s first end-to-end AI voice hotel agents take 10,000 calls a day
The first end-to-end global team of AI generated booking assistants are taking interactive calls for over one million properties worldwide
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Solving staff shortages in a disruptive future
If you visit a hotel owned by Germany’s Aroundtown in the not-too-distant future, you might find the check-in experience managed by a hologram. Real estate investor Aroundtown, which holds around 80 hotels in its diverse, pan-European portfolio –…
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11 Hotel Trends to Watch in 2025
2024 was a wake-up call for the hotel industry. Record performance may have stolen headlines, but the reality was less glamorous: growth rates stabilized, and staffing gaps stretched resources thin. The industry is at a tipping point. Although…
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A NEW fleet of butler robots will serve Brits with booze and food at an iconic Benidorm hotel - and they'll even interact with guests.
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In a digital-driven tourism landscape, young nobles are turning to short format storytelling, domestic travellers, and IPs such as music festivals to revitalise royal-owned heritage properties
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