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The UK hotel sector benefitted from a bumper July, boosted by the Oasis reunion, with occupancy, room rates and profits all exceeding the previous year for the first time in…

In the lead up to the Future Hospitality Summit - FHS World 2025, taking place at Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai from 27-29 October, we asked several industry partners what’s next for hospitality investment in line with this year’s event theme: "Where Vision Leads, Investment Follows."

Diego Acosta, Director, Partnerships, Flex Pay, HSMAI Revenue Optimization Advisory Board Member  Understanding the true cost of a hotel booking isn’t as straightforward as it might seem. Between marketing investments,…

About a year ago, I shared the Hotel Brand Pyramid a chart I had picked up at a seminar. It turned out to be both old and incomplete, and the feedback came in fast: wrong brands, missing brands, and far too simplistic for today’s hotel landscape. Fair enough. So, together with the 10minutes.news team, we set out to make the definitive version: The Hotel Brands of the World infographic.

I’ve had this conversation with hotel leaders more times than I can count—over coffee, in boardrooms, at conferences around the world. And it always starts the same way: “We need…

This article was written by Lodging Magazine. Click here to read the original article TROY, Michigan—According to the J.D. Power 2025 North America Third-Party Hotel Management Guest Satisfaction Benchmark, guest…

Atrium Hospitlaity reigns supreme in customer service delivery, according to the J.D. Power 2025 North America Third-Party Hotel Management Guest Satisfaction Benchmark. Atrium manages 73 hotels, totaling 18,404 rooms, across…

Scaling a business is easy to talk about, but rarely easy to do, especially when the ambition involves not only new markets, but also new cultures, regulations, and expectations. Over the past decade, I’ve had the opportunity to support the growth of a global hospitality group, closing over 150 transactions and entering more than 20 new markets across EMEA. Through that journey, I’ve learned that sustainable expansion isn’t about copying and pasting a playbook. It’s about designing a framework flexible enough to adapt - yet rigorous enough to scale.

PKF hospitality group announces the release of the 2025 edition of its “Hospitality Salary Compass 2025”, an annual benchmarking survey for the Viennese hotel market, now available to participating hotels. The survey provides the most up-to-date benchmarks for salary ranges across the upscale and luxury segments of Vienna’s hotel industry, offering operators, owners, and stakeholders critical insights into the city’s evolving hospitality market.

U.S. lodging demand increased at an average annual rate of just 0.7% in 2023 and 2024, after two years of double-digit growth coming out of the pandemic in 2020. In the May 2025 edition of Hotel Horizons®, CBRE reduced its forecast for lodging demand growth in 2025 to 0.9%. With lodging demand growing at less than 1.0%, hotel owners and operators are scrutinizing the value of their franchise relationships since it is the primary stimulus of demand for most U.S. hotels.