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Why membership out-earns lodging at Gravity Haus hotels

Ask most hotel owners to rank their margins and you’ll see a familiar pattern. Rooms at the top, food and beverage at the bottom, everything else somewhere in between. Jim Deters has added a line above both. Jim is the founder and CEO of Gravity Haus, an adventure lifestyle hotel and membership club with 13 properties across the west of Canada and the United States. He arrived in hospitality after two decades building software and community businesses and opened his first hotel in 2019.…

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Canopy by Hilton Istanbul Taksim partners with IRIS to enhance guest journey with Digital Guest Directory solution

IRIS , the market leader in digital ordering and guest experience solutions, has been selected by Canopy by Hilton Istanbul Taksim , the stylish lifestyle hotel in the heart of Istanbul, to grow and enhance guest engagement and service delivery with its digital guest directory. The Hilton-approved IRIS Guest Directory solution was implemented in April 2026, in a bid to move away from traditional printed guest directories that were difficult to update, lacked personality and failed to…

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