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Henri Giscard d’Estaing, Chairman of Club Med since 2002, has been ousted from his position at the head of the group by Fosun, its Chinese shareholder since 2015.

These days, every hotel with “multi-purpose” spaces (a horrible word, let’s be honest) and mixed revenue streams calls itself a hybrid concept. But if that’s all it takes, we’re missing the point.

Building on their successful collaboration launched last year, IHG Hotels & Resorts (IHG) and Hainan Airlines have further deepened their strategic partnership in 2025 with the joint concept ‘Where Dreams Bloom, Journey to the Oasis’. Together, the two brands present a range of elevated travel touchpoints—including a co-branded airport lounge and business class menus—expanding the boundaries of culture and tourism collaboration. As IHG marks its 50th anniversary in Greater China, this strengthened partnership reflects a shared vision to deliver a seamless end-to-end travel experience with elevated product and service offerings.

UN Tourism, the United Nations agency promoting the development of responsable, sustainable and accessible tourism, and E1 Series, the world’s first and only all-electric raceboat championship, have signed an agreement to promote sustainable mobility and tourism through global sport.

The impact of a major water leak incident in a hotel can be both immediate and long lasting. Among the immediate consequences can be dealing with guest complaints, cancelling reservations and managing renovation work.

An event planner from a local company—let’s call it Golden Group—reaches out to your hotel’s sales team in urgent need of a room block and conference space for a quarterly strategy meeting, just a few days away.

A question that guides our approach when the two of us are working with hotel owners and executives to achieve their financial goals is: What’s your property’s reason to visit? Traditionally, this has been a feeling or a desired emotional outcome, while more recently centralized and structured data from across the guest journey can allow a hotel or brand to quantity this reason to visit in order to use data to guide operational improvements or capex. The acronym for this that we are promulgating is R2V.

Companies spent $21.9 billion on frontline training in 2023. That number is expected to climb to $46.7 billion by 2028. But despite that investment, only 44% of employees feel like their organizations invest in their development.

AI is everywhere.

Middle East and Africa was the only world region to show a decline in overall hotel pipeline activity at the end of the second quarter, according to CoStar’s June 2025 pipeline data. CoStar is a leading provider of online real estate marketplaces, information, and analytics in the property markets.