Jour : 7 novembre 2025
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Hotel Dynamic Pricing: The Complete Guide for Hoteliers
Hoteliers and hotel revenue managers know how quickly markets can fluctuate and how fast demand for travel can change. As demand changes, successful hotels need to be able to quickly adjust revenue strategies to capture as much business as possible, even when overall travel to the area is lighter. For many revenue managers, implementing hotel…
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Attention on Retention: Vision’s Gear Up Program ‘Graduate’ on the Benefits of Developing Employees Like Her
Photo Credit: Vision Hospitality Group What does it take to keep good help? That’s what LODGING asked a beneficiary of an approach to cultivating excellence and loyalty in hospitality team members at the hospitality management company Vision Hospitality Group. Amber Chastain shared the story—hers—of a former factory worker displaced after the pandemic who joined Vision…
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OpenAI just added Tripadvisor to its App SDK, deepening the hold intermediaries have on future consumer-facing channels. Hotels need to wake up. Turn off onward distribution to these AI pipelines and… | Brad Brewer
OpenAI just added Tripadvisor to its App SDK, deepening the hold intermediaries have on future consumer-facing channels. Hotels need to wake up. Turn off onward distribution to these AI pipelines and see what really happens to your demand. If you want to build something as enduring as Amazon, you have to be willing to take…
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RLA Global 2025 Mid-year Wellness Real Estate Report
Wellness hotels demonstrated remarkable stability amid economic pressures in January-June 2025, according to RLA Global’s 2025 Mid-Year Wellness Real Estate Report, published in partnership with P&L benchmarking firm HotStats that analyses the performance of over 11,000 properties worldwide. Several of the top 10 best-performing countries – identified in the report for the first time –…
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45 | IRL LOL
and why brands just can’t hack itFriend-of-the-letter and co-author Damian and I did our first Amsterdam event for Not a Playbook a few weeks ago at the NIO House in Amsterdam. As avid, consistent readers of this letter, you’ll recognize that name (of course) as the bricks-and-mortar representation of the Chinese EV brand’s experiential strategy…
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Tech & talent: What the future of hotel management looks like.
The core of successful hospitality management is flexibility, change and foresight. We live in a world that is in a constant state of evolution and business today is on the cusp of a profound and generational transformation. Radical technological advances led by AI, shifts in guest expectations, a new generation of employees with diverse lifestyle…
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Final lineup confirmed for HOSPACE 2025
HOSPA has confirmed the final lineup for HOSPACE 2025, with it set to take place next Thursday, 13th November 2025, at the Royal Lancaster London. This year’s event marks the 20th edition of the UK’s leading hospitality conference and brings together industry professionals to explore the key topics and trends shaping the future of the…
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HSMAI DC Directors Roundtable Will Share DMV Hotel Market Insights
WASHINGTON – The Washington, D.C., chapter of the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International today invited hospitality professionals from throughout the DMV to attend its annual Directors Roundtable on Nov. 20 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. The program will feature five top minds in the hospitality industry…
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HSMAI Foundation Releases 2025 State of Talent Report
McLean, VA – The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI) Foundation has released its fourth annual State of Talent Report, outlining the top trends impacting talent across hospitality’s commercial disciplines — sales, marketing, and revenue optimization. The report’s analysis of key talent trends reveals a dramatically transformed workplace landscape in 2025, driven primarily by…
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Airbnb lifts outlook as US demand rebounds
New “reserve now, pay later” feature fuels early bookings and signals renewed traveler confidence Nov 7, 2025 Airbnb reported stronger-than-expected revenue guidance for the holiday quarter, driven by rising U.S. demand and early bookings supported by its new deferred payment feature. The results suggest continued resilience in travel spending despite economic uncertainty and flight capacity…