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Read → The economy chain holds regional conferences in New Jersey and Texas with a clear message: owner support and 97% retention.
Read → Travel swings between million-dollar hotel asset sales, airline fare hikes nobody pushes back on, and guests who still want humans at the front desk.
Read → Hozpitality's first Women Leadership Forum in Los Angeles brought together over 70 executives from hospitality, aviation and tourism to talk leadership and inclusion.
Read → The platform reports a 194% jump in searches for old schools, prisons and abbeys turned into hotels. Demand is pushing, supply is lagging.
Read → An intern at GRACE La Margna in St. Moritz asks the awkward question: do commission-based upsell incentives drive genuine service or just sales pressure?
Read → Today is about quiet infrastructure: robots that stopped being a gimmick, Hilton's CTO with Uber DNA, agentic booking leaving agencies out, and AI traffic that still doesn't convert.
Read → Hospitality Net reviews how warm lighting across lobby, guest room and restaurant shapes perceived quality and the guest's emotional bond with the property.
Read → Slow travel tops the 2026 trend lists, yet Machu Picchu is still consumed as a day trip. There is room for the hotel that sells staying.
Read → The Texas and California collection changes its name, emblem and co-branding system across its eight independent hotels.
Read → Blastness pushes hotel payments, Wyndham scales Sports Illustrated Resorts, Iberia Express lifts Balearics capacity to 200 weekly flights and Airbnb cools the agentic booking hype.
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