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Big Interview: Navitaire and Vueling on…

🚀 In December 2025, at the Navitaire Customer Conference in Las Vegas, Vueling discussed technological advances. Vueling, partnering with Navitaire, focuses on AI, quantum computing, and a mobile-first strategy. They've developed innovative solutions like an AI-powered search tool and facial recognition boarding at Barcelona Airport. Vueling's goal is seamless customer experiences with real-time event sharing and personalized offers. Navitaire supports this through Stratos and New Skies, aiming for a technology-driven, interconnected future.

Amex GBT Meetings and Events outlook for 2026

📈 Dec 16, 2025, the 2026 Global Meetings & Events Forecast by American Express Global Business Travel reveals the highest industry optimism in five years. Rising costs are the main challenge, despite stable demand and budgets. AI and digital tools enhance engagement, while sustainability and inclusion become vital. Emphasis on engaging experiences and strategic planning rise, with significant regional differences observed. Access the full report [here](https://explorer.amexglobalbusinesstravel.com/rs/346-POJ-129/images/ME-Forecast-2026.pdf?version=0).

Airbnb falls behind peers as revenue and gross booking growth lag

📈 Dec 16, 2025. Airbnb is trailing behind competitors like Booking Holdings, with its revenue and gross bookings growing more slowly. Growth in Airbnb's core accommodation business slowed to single digits, while competitors expanded in hotels and alternative accommodations. Airbnb's focus on experiences, social features, and AI brings execution risks and margin pressures, with increased spending outpacing revenue growth. As EBITDA and net income margins decline, the competitive intensity rises with Booking and Expedia gaining ground.

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Agentic AI’s rise is making the enterprise architect role more fluid

💻 CEOs are leveraging AI to boost productivity, as noted in CIO magazine. Gartner predicts 75% of IT tasks will be AI-assisted within five years, urging companies to find new IT value through market expansion and product innovation. Challenges include process change, complexity, and governance, emphasizing the need for careful role analysis and control mechanisms. With agentic AI's rise, enterprise architecture must adapt to ensure technology investments yield expected returns.

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BHN wrapped 2025: 12 stories that shaped the year

📰 IHG acquired Ruby Hotels for €110.5 million in February 2025, involving €109.9 million upfront and a €600,000 deferred payment. Ruby operates 20 hotels (3,483 rooms) across Europe with 10 more (2,235 rooms) planned. IHG targets over 120 hotels in 10 years and faces potential payments up to €181 million by 2035 depending on room growth. By year-end 2025, Ruby aims for US development readiness, with full integration into IHG by March 2026.

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AI in Hospitality Is Not About Replacing People — It’s About Stabilising the Ones You Have

💻 High staff turnover is a costly issue in hospitality, often seen as an HR problem. Pertlink's AI Playbook Series, focusing on Workforce Stability, offers assistive AI tools to reduce turnover and maintain service consistency. The plan includes over a dozen AI prompt cards for managers and a phased adoption roadmap, emphasizing ethical use and human judgment. Pertlink, operating since October 23, 2000, from Hong Kong, aids the hospitality sector in leveraging technology effectively.

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Booking.com built agentic AI before ’agents’ existed: Here’s how it scaled with small models for speed, big models for trust

💻 In a VentureBeat podcast, Booking.com's AI product development lead, Pranav Pathak, discussed how Booking.com utilizes a hybrid AI approach to enhance their services. Their strategy, combining small travel-specific models with larger LLMs, has doubled accuracy in key tasks. They report a 2X improvement in topic detection and a 1.5 to 1.7X increase in agent bandwidth. Focused on personalization, they balance specialized and general agents, aiming for efficient, non-invasive recommendations.

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

💻 LodgIQ launched AI Wizard, the first fully operational Generative AI platform for hotel revenue management, on December 2025, in Silicon Valley, CA. This platform leverages a multi-model AI architecture to provide natural language insights into revenue opportunities, replacing static dashboards. Key features include "Ask the Wizard," "Daily Glimpse," and "Opportunity Radar," which identifies revenue upsides like a $6,823 opportunity on specific dates. AI Wizard is available immediately, with an additional module, "Get Your Life Back," in development.

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

💻 LodgIQ launched AI Wizard, the first Generative AI for hotel revenue management. This platform, powered by a multi-model AI architecture, provides context-aware answers to complex hotel data queries. Key modules include "Ask the Wizard" for natural language queries, "Daily Glimpse" for daily performance briefings, and "Opportunity Radar" for future demand analysis, identifying exact revenue upsides, like $6,823 on a specific date. A fourth module, "Get Your Life Back," is in development to further automate tasks.

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Serving the Future: What the 2025 Global Foodservice Outlook Tells Us

🍴 Global foodservice enters 2026 with innovation, sustainability, and digital/AI integration challenges. The 2025 Global Foodservice Outlook reveals 20% of businesses avoid sustainability, while digital tools are prevalent, AI lags. Surveying 1,207 businesses from April to July 2025, the report, led by Dr. Carlos Martin-Rios and Julneth Rogenhofer, covers diverse sectors globally. Sustainability scores average 3.3-3.5/5; AI below 3.15/5. Most firms lack AI integration plans, creating a two-speed landscape. Download the report for insights.

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