Red Sea Global (RSG) is building a new future for luxury tourism, driven by Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030. With sustainability at its core, RSG is crafting unparalleled guest experiences and efficient operations across vast, diverse landscapes. Its foundational network architecture, built on HPE Aruba Networking, helps ensure seamless connectivity, smart management, and a personalized digital journey.
Hotel J Introduces a New, Immersive Wellbeing Focus
Just 25-minute boat ride from the center of Stockholm, Nacka Strand lies at the beginning of the city’s picturesque archipelago. Life is unhurried, noise ebbs away and there are calming leafy views of Djurgården island across the water. This is the peaceful setting for Hotel J, a 19th-century seaside villa that has recently emerged after a refresh as a year-round wellbeing retreat, combining Scandinavian design, locavore food, and wellness rituals rooted in nature.
Customers Don’t Care About Your Profit – They Care About Your Service
Recently, I heard from one of our subscribers, a sales and finance consultant at a luxury automobile dealership. He shared a story about how a customer was almost mistreated.
Defying the Peak: How Global Hotels Sustained Guest Satisfaction in Q3 2025
The Q3 2025 Shiji Global Guest Experience Benchmark reveals a narrative of resilience. Traditionally, the third quarter, coinciding with peak travel in the northern hemisphere, brings a dip in guest satisfaction as occupancy rises and rates surge. This year, however, results defied expectations.
IRIS delivers 44% growth in mobile ordering revenue for White Lodging
The US-based hotel management company White Lodging today announces the strengthening of its collaboration with the global market leader in digital F&B, guest directory and concierge ordering, IRIS, to accelerate its digital ordering proposition across its robust portfolio of hotels.
Verticon Strategy Launches to Help Hospitality Suppliers Navigate Complex Ecosystems
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. This principle—articulated by leadership expert John C. Maxwell—sits at the heart of Verticon Strategy, a new consulting practice launched to help new and existing hospitality suppliers navigate the industry’s complex ecosystem and scale the right way.
When Technology Turns from Ally to Adversary in Hospitality
Standing at a hotel reception desk, tired from travel, only to be told the system won’t let us into our room? In hospitality, technology is meant to streamline and elevate the guest experience, but what happens when it does the opposite? This article dives into the hidden emotional cost of tech failures in hotels, revealing how even the sleekest systems can backfire and why the human touch still matters more than ever.
How to Survive AI in 2026: Ten Coordinates for the Future of Hospitality
To write about the future is, inevitably, to be wrong about the future. I have repeated this for years, and yet, it remains the truest sentence I know. The mistake, however, is not a failure of prediction but a form of knowledge. We now inhabit a “post-postmodern”, almost “post-futurist” condition, a time in which tomorrow no longer stretches ahead as a horizon but hovers above us like a permanent update, endlessly refreshing itself. And although the Singularity that Kurzweil foresaw two decades ago has not yet fully arrived, his law of accelerating returns already permeates the present, altering our perception of time and possibility. Within this landscape, those of us who attempt to understand technology are no longer prophets, but rather cartographers of the impermanent, tracing transient patterns across the shifting topography of innovation. What follows, therefore, are not laws but coordinates, ten mutable constellations, ten subtle tremors that delineate the tectonic rewriting o…
Global Tourism Forum Honours Hala Matar Choufany with “Best Woman in Tourism Leadership” Award at 2025 Annual Meeting
Global Tourism Forum (GTF) has recognised Hala Matar Choufany, President of HVS Middle East, Africa & South Asia, with the Best Woman in Tourism Leadership Award at its Annual Meeting, held at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium.
Health Is the New Wealth: How Equinox Hotels Is Redefining Luxury Through High-Performance Living
This interview with the visionary Chris Norton, CEO of Equinox Hotels, explores how the brand is redefining modern luxury hospitality through a foundation of health, wellness and high-performance living. His team’s leadership is helping make Equinox Hotels a platform for a new generation of travelers who prioritize longevity and vitality by looking for those brands that can meet this lifestyle. Health really is the new wealth. With the utmost attention to detail with the development and launch of the brand’s first hotel in New York, Equinox Hotels is creating experiences that elevate guests’ physical and mental well-being across every single in-room and onsite amenity.

