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AI is changing the hospitality industry, and it's changing how you stay in hotels
At this point, it's safe to assume if AI is not already implemented in an industry, it soon will be. And as use of the tech becomes all the more proliferated, experts have said people will become lonelier—and as a result, crave genuine human…
The White Lotus' season 4 will be set in 2 very different hotels. Take a look inside.
First, it was Hawaii. Then Sicily. Then Thailand. Soon, the French Riviera will get its turn in the spotlight when the fourth season of The White Lotus arrives. Filming has kicked off for the latest season of Mike White's Emmy-winning HBO Original…
Sixth Street Acquires Colorado Ski Resort in Luxury Hotel Push
Sixth Street acquired the Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort & Spa in Colorado, part of its ongoing bet on growing demand for luxury vacations. Sixth Street bought the 193-room ski resort with Riller Capital, according to a statement Wednesday. Seller…
Raves, Brecht and re-enacting Diana's funeral: the White Hotel bows out as the north's bravest music venue
‘The White Hotel is similar to the Highlander and Keith Richards. It's immortal,” declares Austin Collings. Collings is the artistic director of the Salford venue – housed in a former MOT garage – that over the past…
Mews and SiteMinder Pioneer Native Best-In-Class Distribution Inside the Hotel Operating System
Managing operations and distribution from one platform will remove friction from hotels' day-to-day. Availability, rates, inventory and other content will be handled in one place, closing a gap that hotels have had to bridge manually between two…
NYC Hotel Workers Are Getting a Hefty Pay Raise-and Guests Are Footing the Bill
New York City 's hotel owners last week signed the industry's most expensive union contract ever. Travelers to the city will be paying for it. The new agreement allowed hotel owners to avoid a punishing strike by union workers on the eve of FIFA…
New hotel symbolises hope for picturesque Swiss village wiped out by glacier collapse
A new hotel, Hotel Momentum, now stands in Switzerland's Loetschen Valley, a year after a devastating glacier collapse wiped out the village of Blatten. Built rapidly in just 105 days near the neighbouring town of Wiler, the wooden structure…
Why Do Hotels Smell So Good?
Let me start this off by saying that I've stayed in a lot of hotels and motels that definitely don't smell so good. I've spent my fair share of nights in rooms perfumed by a mix of dusty air conditioning, exhaust from whatever highway is nearby…
New York hotel rates set to rise after historic union contract boosts labor costs
New York City hotel rates could climb even higher after hotel owners signed what industry officials describe as the most expensive union contract in the industry's history, locking in major wage increases for workers while raising affordability…
Landmark hotel to reopen after major renovation
A historic Chester city centre hotel is set to reopen after undergoing extensive refurbishment. The Queen at Chester Hotel has been signed up by Handwritten Collection, an anthology of carefully curated hotels. Set to open this summer after a major…
ROMEO Hotel Napoli: rest and relaxation in Italy's most energetic city
Nobody knows how the phrase “Vedi Napoli e mori” (See Naples and die) came into being. The sentiment that once you have seen the beauties of Naples there is no need to go on is most commonly ascribed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on…
Mews and SiteMinder to Put Hotel Distribution, Operations Under One Roof - Exclusive
Mews and SiteMinder are bringing distribution and hotel operations into one platform. The goal: Break down the hotel data silos that complicate AI adoption in the agentic age. Hotels can't put AI agents to work if their data is trapped across…
'Carpet up the wall': How this Sydney retro hotel conversion will embrace the '70s
You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. If a building could wear platform shoes and flared jeans, this one would. With its big arches, the retro style of the Bank of China's former Sydney…
Meet the founder who turned his frustrating night shifts as a 14-year-old at his family's hotel into a $2.5 billion company
Richard Valtr built one of the most valuable hospitality technology companies in the world simply because he was a teen who wanted to stop working the night shift. “I always remember being 14 years old on my summer holidays, thinking that…
Fire crews respond to a hotel in Elkin
Multiple fire trucks respond to an Elkin hotel WXII is working to learn more information about a fire response at a hotel in Elkin overnight. AND TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS TO GET WEATHER ALERTS FOR YOUR LOCATION. TONIGHT, A THOMASVILLE FATHER IS IN…
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