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This article was written by Lodging Magazine. Click here to read the original article NEW YORK—Mews announced the acquisition of Flexkeeping, an operations platform powering automated housekeeping. By offering housekeeping…

[New York, 30 September 2025] Mews, the operating system for hospitality, today announced the acquisition of Flexkeeping, the hotel operations platform powering a new era of automated housekeeping and operational excellence. The move brings best-in-class housekeeping and team collaboration tools into the Mews ecosystem, giving hoteliers a fully unified platform to manage the guest journey from check-in to check-out. By offering housekeeping automation alongside other core hotel functions – from property management and revenue optimization to payments and point-of-sale tools – Mews helps hotels boost staff productivity, cut costs, and deliver consistent guest experiences.

Hotel technology isn’t just an operator’s request – it’s a powerful lever for owners to drive NOI, reduce costs, and strengthen decision-making. A new guide from Otelier, "The Owner’s Edge: How Modern Tech Turns Hotel Portfolios into Profit Engines," is designed specifically for hotel ownership groups, helping you evaluate technology investments not just as expenses, but as opportunities to maximize profitability across your portfolio.

Much has been written about the potential of AI in hospitality—particularly its promise to enhance the customer journey, reduce operational costs, and mitigate staff shortages. Yet, when viewed from a broader perspective, one could argue that AI may ultimately become the sector’s most powerful growth driver—but not necessarily in the way most anticipate. And the path toward this opportunity may be quite turbulent.

Customers and employees across 32 countries back the company, proving an alternative to venture capital in travel tech SAN FRANCISCO, 30 SEPTEMBER 2025 – Property management software Hospitable today announced it has raised…

Maestro PMS, the hospitality industry’s most established and trusted property-management system provider, is advising hoteliers to make 2026 the year to modernize their PMS technology. With the rapid pace of digital innovation and growing guest expectations, hoteliers who strategically budget now for upgrades will be best positioned for long-term operational success.

Hi! We have three big agentic commerce announcements to share. Stripe is: 1/ powering Instant Checkout in ChatGPT 2/ releasing an open standard: Agentic Commerce Protocol, codeveloped with OpenAI 3/…

Hotels are under mounting pressure to modernize in an era where guests expect frictionless travel experiences. Yet despite hospitality’s appetite for innovation, many promising technologies stall — not from lack…

OpenAI just announced that shoppers can checkout in-app from Etsy and Shopify merchants. It is exactly the integration we knew was in the works. This is not agentic commerce –…

It’s probably not controversial anymore to say we are accelerating into the biggest disruption in travel distribution of all time. Three years ago today, nobody talked about any kind of…