Basque Country adds real estate partner to BQUO
Read → BQUO's fourth cohort brings in Kategora Real Estate to attract founders to the accommodation business.
Eight bidders line up for Azores Airlines
Read → The sale of Azores Airlines, forced by Brussels, has drawn eight suitors while TAP keeps grabbing the headlines in Portugal's privatisation wave.
Tourism already has its tax and nobody calls it by name
Read → The tourist tax went from funding infrastructure to managing crowds. Nobody says out loud what it really is.
Mark Weinstein steps down as Hilton CMO after 16 years
Read → Hilton's global CMO Mark Weinstein is leaving the company after 16 years to pursue an opportunity outside the travel industry.
Canadians keep returning to the U.S. for a fifth month, but remain 27% below 2024
Read → Canadian travel to the United States has grown for a fifth straight month, though volumes are still far below 2024 levels.
Canary Islands hosts the big global cruise business gathering
Read → Las Palmas brings together more than 2,000 professionals at the 30th Seatrade Cruise Med, with 180 exhibitors and the archipelago as the hinge between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.
Only 6% of hotels show up consistently in AI results
Read → Your hotel website stops discovering and starts verifying. Only 6% of hotels appear steadily in AI answers, and 82% of cited content comes from OTAs.
You own the P&L, not the aquifer: regenerative tourism's wake-up call
Read → The Routledge Handbook on Regenerative Tourism and Hospitality asks who is accountable for the aquifer when a hotel only manages its bottom line.
Google now books hotels with AI and your content decides who wins
Read → Google switches on its AI mode to book hotels. Natalie Kimball, from Shiji Horizon, explains on Hospitality Net what changes for distribution and direct bookings.
Calviá, Ibiza, Hotel Congress, Savills, Capstone Real Estate and Keyper
Read → Calviá and Ibiza are nominated for the European Capital of Tourism, while Capstone Real Estate partners with Keyper for flexible payments.