Innovation

🤖 ‘Agents for Managers’ automates shift preparation, audits, and team delegation across multi-unit locations. Designed for leaders working on the floor rather than behind a desk, it focuses on day-to-day management tasks across multiple sites.

🪨 Forest Lee, founder of Xianpei (Foshan) Home Furnishing Co., Ltd., outlines four steps hotels should complete before stone fabrication: specify materials for actual use, approve named slabs and dated cutting layouts, coordinate construction and service access, and establish inspection and packing requirements. For lobbies, bathrooms and dining spaces, clear records help prevent mismatched veins, maintenance problems and costly replacements. Sealers improve stain resistance but do not make marble, limestone or many travertines acid-proof.

💸 Franchisees using the Lifelenz platform can now offer employees on-demand pay through a new integration with Tapcheck.

🛠 Square CLI and the improved Square MCP let sellers and developers connect their favorite AI tools directly to Square.

🏨 Inn-Flow in Raleigh, North Carolina, announced AP Agent, an AI-powered invoice processing tool included in Inn-Flow Accounting. It extracts invoice data, matches vendors, assigns general ledger codes and allocates taxes, preparing drafts almost instantly while retaining human review and approval. Designed to reduce manual work for hotel finance teams, it requires no separate software. Inn-Flow reports customer recognition as #1 in hotel accounting and #1 in labor and scheduling management in the Hotel Tech Awards.

🏨 Hapi and dailypoint announced a partnership in Miami, Florida, to accelerate hotel deployments and simplify technology integrations. Using Hapi’s real-time connectivity infrastructure and certified SevenRooms integration, dailypoint will expand guest-data access while reducing integration engineering and maintenance. Hapi serves over 15,000 hotels globally; dailypoint supports over 1,500 hotels and consolidates data from 200+ systems. The partnership could extend connectivity to POS, spa, sales and catering platforms.

🏨 A 615-room property’s refurbishment includes upgraded public areas, new technology-led check-in facilities and a redesigned arrival experience.

🏨 Muhammad Haroon Shoukat and colleagues’ 2024 Meituan.com study used 100 open-ended responses, 391 survey responses and a 33-item scale validated with 440 guests across China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Brand assistance, self-presentation, social interaction and brand identification explained 33.5% of variation in guest interaction. Engagement was associated with perceived value and brand advocacy, but researchers did not establish booking or revenue gains. Hotels should prioritize accurate listings and answer recurring guest questions.

India, 12 November 2026: RateGain Travel Technologies Limited (NSE: RATEGAIN, BSE: 543417) today announced that Uzbekistan Airways, the national carrier of Uzbekistan, has selected AirGain, RateGain’s competitive fare intelligence platform for airlines. The platform will provide the airline’s revenue management team with a clear, real-time view of competitor fares across its network. The partnership comes […] The post Uzbekistan Airways Selects RateGain to Strengthen Pricing Agility Across Its Expanding International Network appeared first on RateGain.