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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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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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OTH Hotels Resorts Expands Northeast Footprint With First New York and Connecticut Management Contracts
14 August 2026WILLIAMSBURG, VA – OTH Hotels Resorts (OTH), a leading hospitality management company specializing in lifestyle, full-service and select-service hotels, today announced the addition of two East Coast properties to its growing third-party management portfolio. Heritage Hotel & Conference Center in Southbury, CT and the DoubleTree by Hilton Binghamton represent OTH’s entry into the Connecticut and New York markets, further strengthening the company’s rapidly expanding presence throughout the Northeast. Together, the two full-service hotels add 370 guestrooms and more than 33,000…
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Is Time Without a Smartphone Becoming the New Luxury?
14 August 2026Imagine a guest beside a remarkable view. Breakfast has arrived and the family is together. Yet one phone vibrates, another records the moment and a third brings work into the room. This scene is so familiar that we rarely question it. Hotels have spent years making the guest journey more connected and convenient. Mobile check-in, digital keys, messaging platforms and QR-code menus are designed to remove friction. But if every moment remains open to work, alerts and digital demands, what…
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Therme Group Announces Strategic Alliance with Marriott International to Explore Next-Generation Wellbeing Experiences
14 August 2026Munich, Germany – Therme Group, a global leader in large-scale urban wellbeing destinations, today announced a strategic alliance with Marriott International, to explore a series of targeted initiatives focused on the future of wellbeing in travel and hospitality. The alignment brings together Therme’s expertise in wellness, longevity, and social experiences at scale with Marriott’s global platform. Therme will collaborate with the Marriott Design Lab, which serves as Marriott’s research and development hub working at the leading edge of design and…
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How Hotels Get Recommended by AI Agents before Their Competitors Do
14 August 2026Right now, somewhere in your market, a buyer is comparing your hotel to two hundred others. It is weighing your rate. Scanning your reviews. Checking your availability. And it will decide in less time than it took you to read that sentence. It will never call your sales office. It will never open your website. And increasingly, it isn’t a person at all. For two years, every hospitality conference repeated the same comfortable line about artificial intelligence: use it to…
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Engineering the Wine List: Price Laddering as a Revenue System – Part I : The Role of the Price
14 August 2026This is the first of a two-part article on managing wine lists as a revenue system. Part I examines how price shapes perceived value and why fragmented lists suppress trade-ups. Part II will isolate relevant commercial behaviours and translate the architecture into sourcing, service and performance management. A wine list does not perform simply because every label meets its target cost percentage. It performs when it shifts the sales mix towards higher-contribution choices, strengthens the credibility of the offer and…
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Evolving Workforce and its Culture
14 August 2026Workforce planning and labor sources have been key discussion points for some time. The workforce today is reorganizing because of the pandemic, technology innovations, workforce skill base, education, training, and professional development availability and options. Industries like the hospitality sectors are adjusting to a new business world. Hospitality, for example, is significantly more technologically adapted than in the immediate past. For example, Mobile Apps became the common place during the pandemic, remote check-in, check-out and more became the standards to…
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Your luxury guest’s shortlist is curated by her card company
14 August 2026This article was written by Hospitality Today. Click here to read the original article American Express added 351 hotels to its Fine Hotels + Resorts and Hotel Collection programs this week, picked by a curation team reading what premium cardmembers spend, against criteria it has never published Aug 14, 2026 by Markus Busch You know the booking when it lands. Breakfast for two, a hundred dollars on property, four o’clock checkout guaranteed rather than hoped for, the upgrade if you…
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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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You priced the room for thirty years; the guest is the new unit
14 August 2026This article was written by Hospitality Today. Click here to read the original article From Orbitz steering Mac users in 2012 to a Senate hearing on “real-time desperation” this month, the price has been migrating from the room to the person – and agentic booking is what finally cuts the hotel out of pricing its own guest Aug 14, 2026 by Markus Busch The room was the unit For as long as there has been a revenue manager, the thing…
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Can AI Ads Become the New Metasearch, Top Hotels Earn EUR257 Per Room from Room Service vs. EUR99 at the Median, the PMS Debate Exposed from the Inside
13 August 2026Yesterday’s ChatGPT Ads beta results put a CPC number on AI advertising for the first time. Today the World Panel asks the structural question that number raises: are AI ad platforms going to follow the metasearch playbook, starting with direct booking promise, scaling to commodity channel, ending with margin extraction? The answer determines how hotels should be allocating media budgets right now. Alongside that, two pieces that cut through the week’s technology narrative with operational data and honest institutional candor.…
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5 Things Every Hotelier Should Know About PMS Data Protection
13 August 2026Most hotels have a disaster recovery plan for a fire, a flood, or another emergency that could temporarily disrupt operations. But when was the last time the hotel tested its plan for a property-management system outage? The answer can be uncomfortable. Although many hotels have data backups in place, they may not know how recent those backups are, whether they can be restored, or how much of the hotel’s business data could be lost if the PMS failed. That matters…
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AI Transforming Travel: 89% of Consumers Prefer AI for Planning; 84% Report Enhanced Travel Experience
13 August 2026💻 Booking.com reports that 89% of consumers plan to use AI for future travel. McKinsey found 84% of travelers who used generative AI saw improved experiences. In 2025, 40% of U.S. travelers used AI for trip research, an 11% increase from the previous year. Hilton introduced an AI Planner in March, and Expedia’s 2026 research shows 70% of travelers prefer booking with trusted brands over AI. AI aims to streamline travel, but trust and accuracy are crucial for its success.
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YODEZEEN Weaves a New Identity for L’ETO Abu Dhabi
13 August 2026This article was written by Hospitality Design. Click here to read the original article L’ETO Restaurant has debut in Abu Dhabi following a renovation by YODEZEEN that expands a beloved breakfast and dessert destination into an all-day dining venue that carries guests from morning through DJ-led evenings. Spanning 8,912 square feet (including a 4,240-square-foot terrace and 936 square feet of back-of-house kitchen space), the project reinterprets the restaurant’s existing identity. The main dining hall brings together varied seating typologies, a…
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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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Positron Access Solutions Appoints Artjom Airikainen as Vice President, Technical Solutions and Services
13 August 2026MONTREAL, QC — Positron Access Solutions , a global leader in innovative connectivity solutions for the hospitality and multi-dwelling unit (MDU) markets, today announced the appointment of Artjom Airikainen as Vice President, Technical Solutions and Services. In his expanded role, Airikainen will lead the company’s technical customer-facing organization, spanning solutions engineering, customer support, and professional services, while taking ownership of system design, installation quality, procedures and partner certification, as the company pushes into new vertical and geographic markets. Artjom brings…
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Valor Hospitality expands to West Coast with San Diego hotel signing
13 August 2026Located in Point Loma, The Monsaraz opened in 2021 as the area’s first new hotel in more than a decade. As part of the agreement, Valor Hospitality will assume full management of the boutique property, including its food and beverage operations. The existing hotel team will also join Valor’s growing family of hotelitarians , the company’s collective of hospitality professionals united by a people-first culture, local expertise and a shared commitment to delivering exceptional guest experiences. The signing represents another…
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Hotel tech stack: must-have vs. nice-to-have tools
13 August 2026It’s a juggling game, running an independent hotel with small teams: juggling rates, juggling availability, juggling reservations, payments and guest data, all of it across multiple disconnected tools. As well as creating more administration, this fragmentation can slow down decisions that directly affect revenue and guest satisfaction, decisions that you as the put-upon ringmaster should be able to reach and act on with ease. So what can you do to improve operational efficiency and commercial metrics? In this blog post,…
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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…
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São Paulo hotel performance lifted by AI Summit Brazil
13 August 2026ARLINGTON, Va. – The São Paulo hotel industry posted its highest July average daily rate (ADR) and revenue per available room (RevPAR) 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: 61.8% (+3.9%) ADR: BRL706.65 (+5.5%) RevPAR: BRL436.60 (+9.6%) The AI Summit Brazil led to peaks across the three key performance metrics. Occupancy (83.9%) reached a high on Thursday,…
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U.S. hotel results for week ending 8 August
13 August 2026ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. hotel industry reported another week of positive year-over-year comparisons, according to CoStar ’s latest data through 8 August. CoStar is a leading global provider of online real estate marketplaces, information and analytics in the property markets. 2-8 August 2026 (percentage change from comparable week in 2025): Occupancy: 70.0% (+3.0%) Average daily rate (ADR): US$166.85 (+4.1%) Revenue per available room (RevPAR): US$116.77 (+7.2%) Among the Top 25 Markets, Philadelphia saw the highest increases in occupancy (+14.2%…
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Stayntouch Partners with Paradise in a Box to Bring the Aloha Spirit to Hotel Check-In
13 August 2026Bethesda, MD | Aug. 13, 2026 | Stayntouch , a global leader in cloud hotel property management systems (PMS) and guest-centric technology, announced a new partnership with Paradise in a Box, a Hawaii-based gift company built on a network of over 40 local makers. Through Stayntouch’s flexible upselling capabilities, hotels can now offer guests curated, locally sourced Hawaiian amenities at check-in, on kiosk, or as a VIP welcome gift, unlocking a new revenue stream while giving guests a lasting piece…
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How Can Luxury Hotels Stay Authentic Without Diluting the Brand?
13 August 2026Authenticity has become one of those words that everyone in hospitality uses and almost nobody defines. Hotels want authentic experiences. Guests want authentic interactions. Brands want employees to “be themselves.” Luxury brands increasingly move away from formality and toward warmth, personalization and a more relaxed style. All of this makes sense. But there is also a risk: we start treating authenticity as if it simply meant more warmth, more informality, more emotion and less structure. It does not. For a…
