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Knowing what makes the industry tick and how it should deal with challenges: as the world’s leading tourism trade show kicks off, interested parties can look forward to the publication of the ITB Travel & Tourism Report 2025/2026. Totalling 32 pages, it offers far-reaching insights into how the tourism industry views digitalisation and disruption and provides 20 takeaways with specific recommendations for action on the future role of marketing in tourism. The report was based on a three-part survey by the global travel community carried out between summer 2024 and the beginning of 2025, in collaboration with Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences and a number of industry experts.

First Hospitality, a national hotel operating, management, and development company, recognized its 2024 Inner Circle winners during a weeklong trip to Panama from March 15 – 21, 2025. Each year, First Hospitality’s Inner Circle Award recognizes the top-performing general managers across the company’s portfolio.

Core Hospitality has restructured and rebranded 14 of its hotels, resulting in new executive roles for key leaders Birgitte Nørgaard and Jytte Vestergaard. Formerly jointly responsible for operations, they now take on specialized director roles to drive growth and operational excellence across 20 Nordic hotels.

The hotel business is a retail business and in order to stay on top of your business you must fully and completely balance your daily revenues and settlements. Every day we begin anew and every day is a story unto itself when it comes to the revenues and settlements. I may sound like I’m repeating “revenues and settlements,” but it cannot be emphasized enough.

Anantara Palais Hansen Vienna Hotel has emerged from a glamorous refresh, marking a new era of urban hospitality in the Austrian capital and the official debut of the brand in the country. Designed by the celebrated architect Baron Theophil Edvard von Hansen for the 1873 World’s Fair, the heritage palace now stands as the city’s first urban luxury resort, where history and modernity are in constant dialogue.

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Walk into any hotel today, and the front desk will likely greet you with a smile and a stack of paperwork. But increasingly, that ritual is being replaced by something very different: a seamless interaction powered by biometrics. It begs the question: are we witnessing the end of the traditional front desk?

I’m writing this from a quiet table at Fowlscombe Farm in the English countryside – a place where hospitality is grounded in land and place. The historical buildings are restored with care. The food is grown on-site. Nothing is rushed or wasted. Everything feels considered.

In the very heart of the 17th arrondissement, between Parc Monceau and Les Batignolles village, Galia Group is about to open La Fondation, an exceptional landmark of over 10,000 m2. The multi-faceted building will accommodate a 5-star hotel, two restaurants, a rooftop, an auditorium with office spaces, a floating garden, a sports club, along with a climbing wall and a semi-Olympic swimming pool. Designers Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch – heads of the renowned New York studio Roman & Williams – designed the warm, enveloping atmosphere of this new Parisian address, which celebrates creation in all its forms. They have used their unique universe, working hand-in-hand with craftsmen, to shape an elegant, timeless setting, dotted with bespoke curated art programm. The edifice itself was designed by Philippe Chiambaretta Architecte. With its exceptional volumes, large panoramic windows and exposed concrete structure with Brutalist accents, the building brings a refreshing twist to rue L…

In the lead up to the Future Hospitality Summit Saudi Arabia 2025 taking place in Riyadh next week, we asked several industry partners about the opportunities they see for the hospitaliy industry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2025 and beyond.