Hotels Say World Cup Economic Boon ‘Isn’t Materializing’
As the World Cup draws closer, hotel associations in host cities tell Forbes they are resigned to seeing a smaller economic lift than FIFA had promised.
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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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Black Myth: Wukong sends China’s game-enabled hotels into overdrive, boosts room rates
Stay-and-play rooms with high-powered PCs prove popular among fans who lack their own hardware or just want a nice place to play with friends.
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The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI) is pleased to announce the release of a new eBook, created in collaboration with Milestone Inc…
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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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Why Recruiting Tech Talent in Hospitality Is a Challenging Task
As technology is becoming gradually more important in hospitality, the industry is facing a significant challenge: a shortage of skilled IT professionals capable of navigating the complexities of modern day technology. Developing IT talent has…
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S Hotels & Resorts integrates Shiji’s WeChat booking engine
Luxury hotel group S Hotels & Resorts has deployed technology company Shiji’s WeChat booking engine for its SAii hotel brand.
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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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Choice Hotels Promotes Sireesha Kunduri to Chief of Product Engineering
Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH), one of the world's largest lodging franchisors and a leader in hospitality technology, announced today that it has promoted Sireesha Kunduri to Chief of Product Engineering…
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AI-powered tablets can enable housekeepers to fill service requests, update room status, pinpoint their location in an emergency and more via voice command in multiple languages.
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Jurny, the leading vertical AI solution for automating hotel and short-term rental operations, today announced the public launch of its AI Multi-Agent system. This industry-first technology marks a significant milestone in the evolution of property…
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Retail and hospitality companies unlock the data insights they need to face the future
Workday's Keith Pickens looks at the findings from two surveys exploring the challenges faced by business leaders in the hospitality and retail industries - and how customers have addressed them by unlocking data insights…
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Accor Selects IDeaS as Global Revenue Management Software Provider
IDeaS and Accor announced that Accor has chosen IDeaS as its global revenue management software (RMS) provider…
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MGM Resorts’ cyberattack headache continues as regulators launch investigations
The company said it could face fines in connection with regulatory inquiries stemming from the social engineering attack.
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Spanish watchdog hits Booking with record fine of €490 million
Spanish competition watchdog CNMC plans to issue a record fine of €490 million to Dutch holiday rental website Booking following reports of false competition from two Spanish hotel owners’ organisations, Spanish and Dutch media reported on Friday…
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Danish BeCause paves the way for sustainable hospitality with $2.5M seed funding boost
BeCause, a Copenhagen-headquartered startup, has secured a total of $2.5 million in seed funding, with a recent $600K investment from Curiosity VC…
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