Jour : 13 juin 2025
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Weekend Reading: My Top Ten News Stories
1. The most important news of this week: Spaceballs 2 is happening. Forget AI takeovers and billion-dollar data deals—the galaxy’s real news is that Spaceballs is back. Mel Brooks returns as Yogurt in a sequel no one thought would materialize outside a joke: Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money. With Rick Moranis and Bill…
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Navigating the Longer Road Back: The Recovery of Manhattan’s Hotel Market
The Manhattan market has been experiencing a prolonged post-pandemic occupancy recovery, despite strong ADR gains. Although legislative and supply changes should bolster this recovery, recent geopolitical factors and the tariffs and policy changes enacted by the new federal administration are expected to affect short-term hotel market trends. Our current demand forecast shows a full recovery…
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Swiss Tourism’s Long Decline: Can the Alpine Giant Regain Its Global Standing?
Compared to other countries, Switzerland has steadily become less and less popular as a vacation destination, which raises important questions about the factors shaping international tourism flows. This article examines the role of demographic change, particularly ageing populations, in influencing destination rankings and looks at what these trends may imply for the future of Swiss…
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Fwd: Travel’s next startup opportunity
Hi there, Busy week for many of us in Travel and Mobility Tech: Phocuswright Europe in Barcelona just wrapped up. Two spontaneous takeaways from our team on the ground: AI was everywhere. As expected, everyone’s talking about it, but no one really knows what it actually means for the future of travel booking. Hype first,…
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Fish Food: Episode 647 – Superagency: Amplifying Human Capability with AI
AI extending human, how AI is changing jobs, ChatGPT for business, WPP’s 30,000 AI agents, how social media has evolved, and what we lose with AI art. This week’s provocation: On amplifying human capability through AI There’s something very attractive about the idea of ‘superagency’, the emerging concept that sits at the intersection of AI,…
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Access Hospitality Launches First Agentic AI Booking Engine to End Decision Overload
VSR introduces the next-generation VAIA®, multimodal conversational AI voice assistant purpose-built for hotels. The platform is designed to enhance both guest satisfaction and hotel efficiency throughout the complete guest journey with intelligent and expressive generative multilingual responses across voice, text, chat, and email with no app download required. VSR will debut the new VAIA at…