Global hotel layoffs hit corporate staff as frontline roles remain hard to fill
Frontline service staff bring skills that technology cannot easily replicate.
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Hotels are building the future. Can government keep up?
I wonder whether the Treasury fully understands what a hotel is becoming…
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Spain introduces hotel accessibility guidelines
Accessibility information guidelines for hotels have been unveiled by the Spanish Tourist Office. A practical framework for “clear, accurate and inclusive” hotel accessibility information has been produced in a new report…
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Exhausted Chinese working mums book solo hotel stays to escape childcare and sleep
A 2025 study shows over a third of Chinese working mothers spend more than two hours daily on chores – far outpacing working fathers.
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Personal AI assistants could be re-shopping ‘landmine’ for hotels
Here we go again. Just as the hotel sector starts to figure out how artificial intelligence (AI) search works, along comes another development: the rise of personal AI assistants.
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Has Kim Jones designed the ultimate hotel merch?
In Tokyo, the British designer unpacks his collaboration with Aman Essentials, a comprehensive wardrobe for those who frequent the luxury hotel group’s resorts – including Jones himself, one of Aman’s most dedicated customers…
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Why the next hospitality design opportunity is refurbishment
Keeping guests happy is the number one priority in hospitality, yet when we talk about hotel design, much of the conversation is focused on what is new…
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AI Search is Forcing a Return to the Fundamentals of SEO
'SEO was once the big thing, but despite its importance, it gradually became an afterthought'.
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Radisson Is Growing at a Time When ‘Instability Is the Norm’
Rising costs and escalating tensions around tourism in major cities may have the hospitality industry on edge, but the hotel group’s CEO sees big growth opportunities ahead, especially in India.
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Top UK hotelier warns against ‘disaster’ Labour minimum wage pledge
A major UK hotelier has warned she may no longer be able to hire 18-year-olds if the minimum wage increases.
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480,000 phishing emails sent from a PC hidden behind a fridge in a Japanese hotel room
Police arrested a Chinese couple for placing the computer that was found in a Kobe hotel and using stolen credit cards to make purchases.
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Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris launches own hotel brand with $112 million Mykonos resort
Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris is passing over global hotel chains and launching his own ultra-luxury brand, starting with a €100 million resort on Mykonos.
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Who is buying and selling hotels, and why?
Boutique Hotel News held its latest Feed Your Mind hotelier breakfast in partnership with AHV Associates, hosted at the House of Lords.
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Airbnb guests freed from chores involving ‘significant effort’ under new global rules
Accommodation platform acts after long-standing guest complaints over doing dishes, taking out rubbish and stripping beds
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Even LinkedIn is getting tired of your AI-written posts
Bland, AI-generated posts have made LinkedIn the butt of many an internet joke this year. The platform has heard its users’ complaints about lengthy, generic missives never touched by human hands loud and clear…
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mrp hotels Expert Paper 2026 – Guidance for the hotel property market of tomorrow
With 497.5 million guest nights, German accommodation providers once again reached a record high in 2025…
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Booking Holdings has launched Vayo, a personal AI travel service, with plans to invest $100 million in the business. The Seattle-based company opened a waitlist for its free, invite-only private beta on October 14…
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KFC Ditches Pepsi for Coca-Cola Across Its US Restaurants
Fried-chicken chain KFC reached an agreement to serve Coca-Cola Co. beverages in the US, dislodging PepsiCo Inc. as a longtime restaurant partner.
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