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Direct to Consumer: Technology companies race to transform website booking engines

For hotels, generating direct business is an essential part of an optimized distribution strategy, one…

Hotel brands rethink, rework the development playbook

PHOENIX — Hotel brands are entering a development environment in which simply putting a flag…

How AI is rewriting hotel distribution—one booking at a time

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Artificial intelligence is quickly moving beyond the experimental stage in hospitality, reshaping…

The New Equation: EY’s Robbie Karver handicaps a dynamic hotel industry

The hotel industry is nothing if not resilient. It survived COVID; it can take on…

Karim Alibhai and Gencom are winning the long game

Three may be a crowd, but for Karim Alibhai, founder and principal of Miami-based hotel…

Luxury hotel brands lead U.S. hotel performance in H1 2026: Colliers report

The U.S. hospitality market recorded renewed but uneven momentum in the first half of 2026,…

3 strategies hotel brands are using to keep growing

For decades, public hotel companies have grown their brands on an asset-light model fueled by…

Why the guest experience starts with your team’s capacity to recover

The hospitality industry has spent the past decade perfecting wellness for the guest. Sleep concierges,…