Innovation

💻 Casago, a leading vacation rental management company, has partnered with Breezeway, an operations platform, to enhance property care and guest experiences. Casago's franchise operators will benefit from Breezeway’s tools, improving tasks like housekeeping and maintenance. This follows Casago's acquisition of Vacasa and expansion in San Diego with 150 homes, and management of over 90 properties on the Texas Gulf Coast. Recent partnerships with Breezeway and Wheelhouse aim to boost Casago’s franchise-first model.

💻 **Ireckonu**, a technology provider in the hospitality industry, highlights the increasing risks of improperly using AI with guest data. **Jan Jaap van Roon**, CEO, emphasizes that tools like **ChatGPT** could lead to privacy breaches, especially under regulations like **GDPR**. He advocates for private AI models within hotels' own systems. **Ireckonu**, based in **Amsterdam**, employs over **75** professionals globally, urging the industry to set standards and best practices for AI use to protect guest privacy.

💻 Casago partners with Breezeway to enhance operations and guest experiences across its franchise network. Casago's recent expansions include acquiring Vacasa and adding over 150 homes in San Diego, plus managing 90+ Texas Gulf Coast properties. Breezeway's tools help streamline operations like housekeeping and digital communications. Previously, Casago selected Wheelhouse for revenue management. This partnership aims to balance automation with personalization, focusing on delivering exceptional guest experiences and boosting profitability.

📈 **Sunnyvale, CA, August 26th, 2025** – LodgIQ integrates its AI-driven RMS with Host Hotel Systems' PMS, impacting over 1,800 hotels across 15 countries. This partnership streamlines revenue management through automated pricing, optimizing room rates based on real-time data and external factors. CEO Vincent Ramelli highlights improved efficiency, allowing staff to focus on guest experiences. LodgIQ serves over 550 hotels globally, enhancing decision-making with data-driven insights from Silicon Valley, NYC, and Bangalore. For more details, visit their websites.

💸 AI is transforming hotel revenue management. Manual processes once consumed up to 80% of managers' time, leading to revenue losses of up to 15% during peak periods. Now, AI enables real-time pricing, demand forecasting, and rate behavior intelligence, which boosts profitability by 20–30% and improves RevPAR. A New York hotel saw an 18% RevPAR increase during a marathon weekend using AI. AI saves revenue teams 50% of their time, enhancing strategic decision-making.

💸 BARCELONA, August 26, 2025 – Shiji integrates its Daylight PMS with Right Revenue’s rate management software, empowering hotels with AI-driven, real-time rate recommendations covering up to two years. This partnership optimizes revenue and simplifies decision-making for hoteliers. Shiji supports over 91,000 hotels globally, while Right Revenue specializes in independent hotels. The integration delivers dynamic pricing by analyzing reservation data and market trends to enhance profitability and operational efficiency.

New Integration Delivers Automated, Data-Driven Pricing to Streamline Revenue Management for Host Hotel Systems Global Portfolio Sunnyvale, CA, August 26th, 2025 – LodgIQ, a leading provider of AI-powered revenue management…

💻 SIHOT upgrades its SIHOT@360º API with REST technology to enhance interface building and security. This update, featuring an embedded Token Service, supports multiple Identity Providers like Microsoft Entra ID and Amazon Cognito. Developers benefit from improved authentication, data integrity, and traceability. Carsten Wernet, CEO of SIHOT, highlights the API's role in simplifying development and boosting flexibility, enabling faster market entry and stronger connectivity for hospitality management and services.

📅 Holiwise, a London-based AI travel agency, raised €1.45M in an oversubscribed pre-seed round involving executives from Bank of America, Barclays, Google, and Goldman Sachs. Led by Bobby Previti, with Ulf Nilsson joining the board, the funds will enhance AI travel services for over 10,000 destinations. Major integrations include HBX Group and Amadeus, allowing instant personalized trip planning. Notably, the platform boasts tens of thousands of monthly users with an 80% return rate.

💸 HBX Group partners with Superscript to streamline insurance complexities in the UK and Europe. This collaboration focuses on providing innovative, competitively priced insurance solutions for various business risks to partners in the travel industry. Superscript, a dual-regulated UK-based Insurtech and Lloyd’s of London broker, will offer digital broking services. This partnership enhances HBX Group's insurance offerings, complementing its existing ties with battleface, Wallbid, and Intermundial.