Access Hospitality offers free sexual harassment training after UK employment law changes

Ever longed for your own personal assistant? In the ever quickening tech race, Meta has recently launched Muse, a new AI personal agent . Unlike traditional chatbots, this little AI tool will be able to fill out forms for you, organise calendars, pay bills and make reservations. Meta describes Muse as a personal agent “ built for everyone ”. The launch comes at a time when AI agents have been making headlines for hacking into government websites , public agencies and businesses. However, my immediate concern is a little closer to home. I work as a psychologist, and I’m often talking to clients about lifestyle habits that lead to short-term gain but incur long-term pain. Our brains have a beautiful way of preferring the path of least resistance, of doing what is easiest to preserve our resources. And with the demands of modern life feeling so overwhelming for so many people, the urge to scroll after a long week or defer to a chatbot because you are exhausted is incredibly seducing. Tech bros pushing their products on to us is nothing new (we all remember the metaverse , right?), but the message is now seemingly at fever pitch for mass AI adoption and how integral it is for human development. It is helpful to remind ourselves what we are being asked to give up, to whom and why, and to consider the potential risks before we hand over our precious data.

The launch in October 2026 follows the Paathz Beta, which opened in July 2026 across seven markets. More than 30,000 hospitality professionals had joined Paathz before a single employer role went live, and the community has continued to grow, now surpassing 50,000 candidates. The beta was designed to gather feedback. Within two months, more than 1,100 properties had joined, more than 15 hires were made through the platform, and applicant screening time fell by more than 80%. Employers and job seekers actively used the platform, and their feedback went directly into shaping the version launching today: clearer match scores, a deeper hospitality taxonomy, and a faster route from CV to profile completion. Having worked in hospitality, I know how much the right team matters. Whether you’re hiring for a hotel, restaurant or cruise line, a job title on a CV tells you very little about the environment someone has worked in or what they can bring to your team. We built Paathz to make that experience easier to understand, help employers find relevant people and give candidates a clearer view of their applications. The hiring decision stays with the people who know their business best.” Ayush Soota, Co-Founder and CEO of Paathz What Does the Paathz Hiring Platform Include? Paathz combines a structured candidate profile, hospitality-specific talent matching, and built-in recruitment tools in one platform. The Paathz profile. At the heart of the platform is Paathz Profile , a structured hospitality profile that goes beyond the traditional CV, compiling experience,

RALEIGH, N.C. — Inn-Flow, the hotel profit management platform, today announced the appointment of Lokesh Seth as Chief Executive Officer. A seasoned SaaS executive with more than 25 years of experience scaling and transforming enterprise software businesses, Seth will lead Inn-Flow’s next phase of growth and innovation. Founder John Erhart, who started Inn-Flow in 2009 to solve challenges he experienced while running his family’s hotel management company, becomes Executive Chairman. He will continue to work closely with the leadership team, bringing the operator perspective and deep hospitality expertise that have shaped Inn-Flow since its founding. The leadership transition builds on Inn-Flow’s momentum, including its acquisition of Lilo to bring AI-powered procurement into the platform, continued investment in product innovation, and a strengthened executive leadership team. Most recently, Seth served as CEO of Hazeltree, a treasury and liquidity software provider for alternative investment firms, where he led a transformation that accelerated growth and substantially improved profitability. Before that, he helped scale DealCloud from under $2 million to more than $200 million in annual recurring revenue, through its acquisition by Intapp and Intapp’s 2021 IPO, and served as Intapp’s President of Financial Services. Earlier, he helped build iLevel into a leading analytics platform for private capital. Across each role, he has built software that connects data, workflows, and performance for complex, multi-entity businesses, the same challenge hotel management companies face across their portfolios. “What drew me to Inn-Flow is that it was built by an operator, for operators, and that shows in

The background The Coaching Inn Group has had almost 3 decades delivering exceptional guest experiences across the UK, winning Hotel Group of the Year 2025 with Which? and has seen them expand into 43 properties. The group is driven by their ethos ‘Hospitality from the Heart’, showing a strong commitment to serving people and teams like family. They primarily specialise in traditional British buildings that evoke a rustic character, situated in market towns and smaller cities that create unique stays. As each property operates independently, it is crucial that all systems are unified and connected to keep operations working seamlessly. From reservations to table management and payments, it is important that all these areas are working as one so guest are the focus, not disconnected technology. That’s why our partnership with the Coaching Inn Group has spanned nearly 20 years, as we ensure that all 43 inns deliver ‘Hospitality from the Heart’ every day with hotel management software that works together. The challenge Managing multiple products across a growing business As the company started to expand, the technology requirements grew more and more. The group had a long history with our products at Access Hospitality using Access Guestline for hotel property management , Wireless Social for Wi-Fi marketing, Procure Wizard for procurement, Access Maintain for property maintenance and Access Collins for table management. Although the individual products worked well pre-migration to Access Hospitality, managing them all at once was becoming an issue. Speaking to Mat Charity, Commercial and IT Director

In the Q3 2026 China Construction Pipeline Trend Report by Lodging Econometrics (LE), at the close of the quarter, China’s total hotel construction pipeline stands at 3,507 projects with 621,201 rooms. There are 2,482 projects/433,183 rooms under construction in China. Projects scheduled to start construction in the next 12 months total 348 projects/59,386 rooms and projects in early planning stand at 677 projects/128,632 rooms. The upper midscale chain scale leads China’s pipeline with 1,264 projects/185,074 rooms, accounting for 36% of projects and 30% of rooms in the total pipeline. The upscale chain scale follows with 1,070 projects/216,301 rooms, representing 31% of projects and 35% of rooms. These two chain scales combined account for 67% of projects and 65% of rooms in China’s hotel construction pipeline, with 2,334 projects/401,375 rooms. The upper upscale chain scale has 360 projects/95,003 rooms, the midscale chain scale has 276 projects/28,196 rooms, and the luxury chain scale has 257 projects/53,249 rooms. Brand conversions reach record-high project and room totals, with 253 projects/41,623 rooms. New project announcements (NPAs) total 178 projects/27,212 rooms, and construction starts stand at 153 projects/23,333 rooms. Cities in China with the largest pipelines, at the Q3 close, are Guangzhou, with 123 projects/25,231 rooms, Chengdu with 121 projects/21,950 rooms, Shanghai with 113 projects/20,873 rooms, Hangzhou with 95 projects/17,662 rooms, and Xi’an with 78 projects/14,011 rooms. Through the third quarter of 2026, 685 new hotels, accounting for 96,036 rooms, have opened in China. The LE forecast for new hotel openings expects another 327 hotels with