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CHTA Highlights the Biggest Takeaways from CHIEF 2025, Signaling a New Era for Caribbean Hospitality

Barbados — The Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA) today shared the leading insights emerging from the 2025 Caribbean Hospitality Industry Exchange Forum (CHIEF), which recently took place in Barbados. CHTA also announced that CHIEF 2026 will be held November 16–18, 2026, running concurrently with Taste of the Caribbean. The annual event brought together hotel executives, policy makers and tourism partners from across the region to examine the strategies reshaping Caribbean hospitality and the operational shifts required for long-term resilience and competitiveness.
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Skift Global Forum East 2025: 9 Takeaways for the Future of Travel

The 2025 Skift Global Forum East brought together the region’s most influential travel leaders at a moment when the Middle East is quickly reshaping global tourism. This year’s conversations made one point clear: the global travel landscape is tilting toward the East as the Gulf accelerates tourism growth, expands air connectivity, and attracts a new wave of high-spending travelers. Speakers discussed how this shift affects market dynamics, visitor expectations, destination development, and long-term strategy.
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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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