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Reach buyers ready to spend with non-endemic advertising | Rory Sutherland | 17 comments
Why top brands target travellers (and why you probably should too). The late, great Jeremy Bullmore once told me that he believed that if you could sell a brand to a couple on their honeymoon, you might well win two customers for life. One of the delightful quirks of human behaviour is that people are…
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Hospitality.today™Top 50 of 2025
This is the final Hospitality.today newsletter of 2025. Thank you for reading, sharing, and supporting the publication throughout the year. This edition looks at the 50 most-read Hospitality.today articles of 2025 and what they reveal about the year and the choices facing hoteliers in 2026. Across the top 50 articles, several clear themes emerged: AI…
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The Hotel Media Review of 2025 – Zeitgeist of the Hotel Industry — Soler & Associates | Marketing Hotel Technology
Booking.com held onto the number one spot for the third year in a row, and at this point it’s hard to call that anything but structural dominance. The recurring themes in headlines were remarkably consistent:Relentless product expansion, especially around AI-driven trip planning and searchControl of demand, positioning Booking as the discovery layerPressure on hotels, particularly…
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The Zeitgeist of Hospitality News 2025
My annual review of what are the hottest topics in the hotel industry. The headlines that hotels clicked on the most. This is a long one. The 2025 Zeitgeist of the Hotel IndustryEvery year, I do the same slightly obsessive exercise: I take the most viewed headlines, strip them of opinion, and look at them…
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137 – The Zeitgeist of Hospitality News 2025
Every year, I do the same slightly obsessive exercise: I take the most viewed headlines, strip them of opinion, and look at them as data. This year’s dataset was broader than usual, over 150 of the most-read headlines from 10 Minutes Hotel News, Hospitality Today, and HospitalityNet, (sign up to their newsletters) and the patterns…
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Fwd: What our top 50 articles reveal about 2025 — and what comes next
Dear reader, This is the final Hospitality.today newsletter of 2025. Thank you for reading, sharing, and supporting the publication throughout the year. This edition looks at the 50 most-read Hospitality.today articles of 2025 and what they reveal about the year and the choices facing hoteliers in 2026. Across the top 50 articles, several clear themes…
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Decoded: Booking.com’s AI Strategy and Where It’s Headed
Having recently written about the threat of Google Agentic AI Travel agents, it was fascinating to listen to the Phocuswright Conference interview with Rob Ransom, the Chief Strategy Officer of Booking.com, which revealed the strategic moat they believe they have built to avoid an Agentic AI invasion of their traditional territory. Throughout most of their…
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What Japan travel looks like after the comeback
From growth to guardrails Japan is no longer just attracting visitors. It’s managing them. Crowding in cultural districts, pressure on natural sites and strain on transport systems have pushed sustainability from principle to policy. National tourism plans now place dispersal and visitor experience alongside headline growth targets — with clear metrics to back them up.…
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What Japan travel looks like after the comeback
From growth to guardrails Japan is no longer just attracting visitors. It’s managing them. Crowding in cultural districts, pressure on natural sites and strain on transport systems have pushed sustainability from principle to policy. National tourism plans now place dispersal and visitor experience alongside headline growth targets — with clear metrics to back them up.…
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Top 10 Travel Posts of 2025
Award-winning local architecture firm Lake Flato imagined the Hotel Saint Augustine as a cluster of five two-story structures that reflect the proportioning of the neighborhood, but that also delineate a series of cloistral courtyards. Bunkhouse Hotels presents their new Houston locale, Hotel Saint Augustine, named after Saint Augustine, the patron saint of printing because of…
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