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Liverpool visitor economy reaches record £6.8bn
18 August 2026Tourism supported 57,591 jobs as visitor numbers surpassed 61.5 million in 2025
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The hotel franchise agreement helped build an industry. Is it still equitable?
18 August 2026This article was written by HotelsMag. Click here to read the original article Around 12%. That’s the percentage of room revenue a hotel franchisee typically will pay a franchisor for the right to use their name and likeness and all the accouterments that come with it. Is the price worth it? It is one question facing hotel owners, who, jostled by needling and expanding expense lines that have made it much more difficult to operate a property profitably, are…
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Paying Travel Advisors on Time Is a Commercial Strategy, Not Back Office
17 August 2026In early July, Rocco Forte Hotels became the first luxury hotel brand to adopt Sion, a platform created to manage and pay travel advisor commissions. While the announcement was covered as a payment upgrade, there is something larger at play. When Sir Rocco Forte stated that travel advisors are fundamental to the group’s business and deserve a payment process that reflects their value, and that his aim is to make Rocco Forte Hotels one of the easiest luxury brands for…
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Saudi Arabia and Egypt Lead Middle East’s Hotel Construction. The UAE Trails.
17 August 2026This article was written by Skift. Click here to read the original article Hotel construction in the Middle East continues to increase despite the demand-side disruption caused by the U.S.-Iran war, according to a new report from Lodging Econometrics. A record 724 projects and 178,003 rooms were currently under construction in the region at the end of the second quarter. This was up 11% by projects and 10% by rooms year-over-year, the report found. This signals that developers are betting…
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Europe Captures One-Third of Global Leisure Travel Spending as Southern Europe Dominates the Summer Travel Season
17 August 2026As millions of travellers head abroad during the peak summer holiday season, Europe has reinforced its position as the world’s leading leisure travel destination, capturing one-third of all global leisure travel spending in 2025, according to new 2026 EIR data from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), sponsored by Chase Travel, Lead Research Partner. The latest figures show that global leisure travel spending reached $6.15TN in 2025, up 3.5% year-on-year and accounting for 80.5% of total global travel expenditure.…
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Motel One Appoints Jérôme Lassara as Head of Development for Southern Europe, Targeting Italy, Spain, and Portugal
17 August 2026📈 Jérôme Lassara named Head of Development for Motel One in Southern Europe, focusing on Italy, Spain, and Portugal. In April 2024, Dieter Müller regained control of Motel One; PAI Partners acquired an 80% stake by Q2 2025. Revenue reached €980 million in 2024 with 99 hotels across 13 countries. Motel One’s “The Cloud One,” launched in 2022, expanded to several cities with a new Lisbon opening planned. Lassara’s career spans roles at Accor and an MBA from Cornell/ESSEC.
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HVS Asia Pacific Hospitality Newsletter – Week Ending 14 August 2026
17 August 2026Goldman Sachs-IGIS Consortium Selected as Preferred Bidder for Timewalk Myeongdong with KRW535 Billion Bid in Seoul, South Korea A consortium comprising US-based Goldman Sachs and South Korea-based IGIS Asset Management Co., Ltd. (“IGIS”) has been selected as the preferred bidder for Timewalk Myeongdong , a mixed-use commercial property in Seoul’s Jung District, with a proposed purchase price of approximately KRW535 billion based on a share deal. The property is held through IGIS Strategic Fund No. 1 , whose major investors…
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Cendyn Captures High-Intent Demand With Meta Hotel Ads
17 August 2026This article was written by Luxury Hospitality Mag. Click here to read the original article With social media dominating travel planning, Meta Hotel Ads in Cendyn DMP enable hotels and resorts to drive direct bookings from high-intent travelers across key channels and apps. Cendyn, a global integrated hotel technology and services company, doubles down on high-intent travelers with the launch of Meta Hotel Ads in Cendyn‘s Digital Marketing Platform (DMP) portfolio of channels. Targeted hotel marketing can now be increasingly more…
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The Future of Tourism in Chilean Patagonia: Why the Next Decade Matters Now
17 August 2026From centuries, Chilean Patagonia has intrigued travelers from around the world. Its glaciers, fjords, vast landscapes and remote beauty offer something increasingly rare: a true connection with nature. But today, the region stands at a crossroads and the choices made now will shape its future for decades to come. A new white paper, “The Future of Tourism in Chilean Patagonia: From Growth to Stewardship”, explores this defining moment and asks what kind of destination Patagonia should become. A Destination on…
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Parks and resorts: Disney accelerates its $60 billion plan after a record quarter
16 August 2026This article was written by HospitalityOn. Click here to read the original article “A big surprise,” in the words of Josh D’Amaro. That is how the new CEO of the Walt Disney Company described the group’s latest theme-park results at the D23 convention. The Experiences division posted a 10% rise in revenue for the quarter and a 20% increase in operating income, a record. According to D’Amaro, that performance justifies “supercharging” a historic $60 billion investment plan, half of it…
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Pimp
15 August 2026The word “trust” is currently taking an absolute beating in hotel tech. We’ve somehow convinced ourselves that third-party platforms hold a permanent monopoly on traveler faith simply because they spent two decades building a slick, four-click digital transaction engine. But let’s stop confusing a convenient checkout screen with actual trust. In fact, the entire distribution game is fundamentally about trust—but the real question is which party the traveler should actually trust. Who actually holds the credibility and the agency? My…
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Five on Friday: August 14th, 2026
14 August 2026This article was written by Hospitality Design. Click here to read the original article Architecture’s new internet stars, TV personality Tan France’s tailored take on furniture, and office pods go off the grid. All that and more in this week’s Five on Friday. Tan France launches a furniture collection Photo courtesy of Castlery “Queer Eye” star—and Father of the French Tuck—Tan France brings his knack for tailored looks to interiors with a new 18-piece collection with Castlery. Drawing upon his…
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AI Agents Are Reading Guest Data to Mark Up Prices and Hotels Get Their Listed Rate, Marriott and Therme Partner on Wellbeing, Disconnection Is the New Luxury
14 August 2026The week closes with the AI monetization argument reaching its most provocative point. Every brief this week has covered AI as a distribution and discovery infrastructure question. Today’s lead reframes it as a pricing extraction question: AI agents are already applying dynamic markups to hotel rooms based on individual guest data, charging one traveler more than another for the same room, and the hotel receives only its listed rate regardless. Direct booking is described as the only channel that structurally…
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What does hotel dynamic pricing software actually do?
14 August 2026Most independent hoteliers (rightly) don’t question whether pricing matters. Two of the most pertinent questions you probably do find yourself asking are what does AI-powered pricing software actually do once it’s switched on and can it be trusted to make good decisions without taking away my control? If you run a lean property, your pricing process may still involve checking competitor pricing, logging into multiple OTA extranets and making manual updates whenever demand changes. This all makes sense. But it…
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UnderTheDoormat Group Expands TrustedStays Platform to France, Integrates with Amadeus for Corporate Travel Bookings
14 August 2026🏠 UnderTheDoormat Group, a London-based hospitality operator, expanded TrustedStays into France, integrating serviced apartments into corporate travel systems via Amadeus. In 2025, French business travel spending reached €30.9bn, projected to grow 2.2% to €31.6bn by 2026. Serviced apartments, growing at 5.9% annually since 2019, represent just 8% of Europe’s accommodation supply. The expansion addresses corporate demand for flexible options amid global business travel spending forecasts of $1.71tn in 2026.
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ChatGPT opens its sponsored links to independent hoteliers
14 August 2026This article was written by HospitalityOn. Click here to read the original article The advertising program launched by OpenAI in the United States for its ChatGPT search engine had been in testing since the start of the year. It was immediately adopted by OTAs, which alone could afford the required minimum budget of $200,000, with a pay-per-click option on ads running around $60. The experiment, evidently very profitable for OpenAI, has since June turned into a “self-service” platform open to…
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Canary Technologies Named to the 2026 Inc. 5000 List
14 August 2026SAN FRANCISCO – Canary Technologies, the leading AI platform for hotel and guest management, has been named to the 2026 Inc. 5000 , the prestigious annual ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The distinction recognizes Canary’s leadership in hotel technology innovation and highlights the hospitality industry’s rapid acceleration in adopting AI solutions. The Inc. 5000 celebrates the nation’s most successful independent and entrepreneurial businesses that have achieved remarkable growth while driving innovation, creating jobs and shaping the future…
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Agoda launches AI-powered room grid bot to help travellers decide which room to book
14 August 2026This article was written by Travolution. Click here to read the original article Agoda has rolled out Room Grid Bot, an AI-powered conversational assistant in its mobile app that recommends room categories based on a traveller’s search and stated preferences. Available from the room selection page, the tool blends the active search criteria with information shared during the chat to surface relevant options. A “Best pick” label highlights a choice deemed particularly suitable. The stated aim is to cut complexity…
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Hotels.com extends global partnership with Arsenal FC
14 August 2026This article was written by Travolution. Click here to read the original article Hotels.com knows where to find fans ready to travel across Europe all year round. Hotels.com and Arsenal are extending the global partnership launched in 2023. Renewed for several years, the agreement keeps the accommodation platform as an Official Partner of the English champions. It underlines a marketing strategy that leans on supporter fervour to inspire trips and, ultimately, to drive search and booking intent. The Expedia-owned brand,…
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The hotel side of the corporate RFP just started automating too
14 August 2026This article was written by Hospitality Today. Click here to read the original article Accor will hand its hotels AI-generated prices for their corporate bids from next year — leaving the hotel that still sets its number by hand bidding against one that doesn’t Aug 14, 2026 by Markus Busch Driving the news. Two pieces of it are already running. Collecting the information from the hotels is done, and auditing whether agreed rates actually appear in booking channels is live.…
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Will AI finally “connect the trip”?
13 August 2026When they add dates – we suddenly can present the whole picture to anyone who has the ability to quote the whole trip..
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Asia-Pacific investors plow into European hotel assets: report
13 August 2026This article was written by HotelsMag. Click here to read the original article European hotel investment totaled €11.7 billion in the first half of 2026, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s latest MarketBeat Europe Hospitality report. The figure was 19.5% above the 10-year average but represented a 9.5% year-over-year decline. Transactions above €100 million rose 30% YOY, spanning single assets and larger portfolios. The activity included the Pullman Paris Tour Eiffel, the Westminster Curio Collection in London and the Park Hyatt…
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American Express Travel adds 351 hotels to its program, including Madame Rêve, Maison Barrière Vendôme and Le Négresco
13 August 2026This article was written by HospitalityOn. Click here to read the original article To mark its 35th anniversary, American Express Travel unveiled its latest portfolio expansion on August 12, 2026, adding 351 properties split between its two programs. Fine Hotels + Resorts gains 146, The Hotel Collection 205. The geographic split favors the United States, followed by Italy and Spain. The Moana Surfrider in Hawaii and the Waldorf Astoria Kuala Lumpur are among the notable additions. France gets fifteen new…
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Cendyn expands payment ecosystem tackling cart abandonment
13 August 2026AUSTIN, Texas — Cendyn, the leading hospitality marketing software and services platform, has launched a new unified payment framework within the Cendyn CRS to help reduce cart abandonment for direct bookings. With four new integrations to leading payment platforms, the Cendyn CRS now removes payment friction, providing guests with greater choice and enables hotel finance teams to remain in full control of how transactions are structured, collected, and reconciled. Working with Flex Pay, FreedomPay, Stripe, and Gr4vy, the direct channel…
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Eventful July drove Cologne hotel performance
13 August 2026ARLINGTON, Va. – A mix of events helped Cologne’s hotel industry post its highest occupancy and revenue per available room (RevPAR) for any July on record, according to preliminary data from CoStar , a leading provider of online real estate marketplaces, information, and analytics in the property markets. July 2026 (year-over-year % change): Occupancy: 72.1% (+2.5%) Average daily rate (ADR): EUR106.36 (+5.8%) Revenue per available room (RevPAR): EUR76.64 (+8.5%) In addition to the occupancy and RevPAR highs, the market also…
