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LodgIQ Launches AI Wizard, Hospitality’s First Generative AI Platform for Revenue Intelligence

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The Hotel Financial Coach Overview

Having worked in the hotel business for over four decades, I know most people think the numbers are the “hard” part of hospitality. There’s a common belief that the financials are best left to professionals who can sort out the complex interplay between the different departments of a hotel. It’s just too challenging and complicated for anyone who didn’t go to accounting school.
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HVS Asia Pacific Hospitality Newsletter – Week Ending 12 December 2025

South Korea-based Meritz Securities Co. Ltd. (“Meritz Securities”) and Josun Hotels & Resorts Co. (“Josun Hotels”), the hospitality arm of South Korea-based Shinsegae Co. Ltd., have partnered with UK-based Pacific Asset Management LLP (“PAM”) to acquire two hotels in South Korea. The investment fund was capitalised with KRW2.9 trillion from Meritz Securities and KRW50 billion from Josun Hotels, with PAM appointed as fund manager. The acquired properties include the 375-key Four Points by Sheraton Josun Myeongdong (“FSP”) in Seoul and the 306-key Gravity Seoul Pangyo, Autograph Collection (“GSP”) in Pangyo. The combined acquisition cost is reported to be in the lower range of KRW500 billion. Both hotels opened in 2020. The FSP spans 21,658 square metres across 26 storeys with three basement levels and includes two food and beverage outlets, fitness centre, and meeting spaces. It is located a five-minute walk from Eulji-ro MRT station. The GSP offers four dining outlets, an indoor pool,...
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LodgIQ Launches AI Wizard, Hospitality’s First Generative AI Platform for Revenue Intelligence

LodgIQ, a commercial strategy technology provider for the hospitality industry, today announced the launch of AI Wizard, the industry’s first fully operational Generative AI platform purpose-built for hotel revenue management and business intelligence. The release marks a shift away from static dashboards and manual reporting toward an interactive, conversational interface that allows hotel teams to ask questions, surface insights, and understand revenue opportunities in natural language.
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Between myth and experience: Monte Carlo’s grand hotels as narrators of European luxury

Talking about luxury in Monte Carlo involves more than just listing iconic hotels or mentioning astronomical rates. Over more than a century, the Principality has developed a very particular way of understanding hospitality: a precise blend of tradition, theatricality, aesthetics, and narrative. Hotels are not just places to sleep or be waited on, they are stories. Stories told through marble, staircases, silent lobbies, and almost choreographed gestures of service. And among these stories, three hotels occupy a central place in the construction of the myth of European luxury: the Hôtel de Paris, the Hôtel Hermitage, and the Metropole.
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