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Based on extensive industry research and expertise from EHL faculty members and the EHL’s renowned network of industry leaders, the EHL Insights Report: Hospitality Outlook 2026 offers an in-depth perspective on where the industry is heading in the coming years.

At 25hours Hotel The Trip, large parts of the public areas have been redesigned as part of a six-month process. Particular attention was paid to the lobby and reception area with its adjoining shop, the new Nomad Day Bar and the inner courtyard. The “Library of the Lost Countries” has also been rearranged. Michael Dreher, who originally developed the 152-room hotel under the motto “Around the world in a day”, was once again responsible for the design and project management. Together with local tradesmen, the individual areas were gradually adapted during ongoing operations without significantly affecting the well-being of guests or hotel operations.

LodgIQ, the AI-driven revenue management and commercial strategy platform for hotels, today announced a major expansion of its product capabilities, introducing a suite of advanced analytics, integrations, and collaboration tools. These innovations reflect LodgIQ’s mission to help revenue managers move beyond daily price adjustments and become the architects of a hotel’s entire commercial strategy. By embedding business intelligence (BI) directly into the RMS, automating manual reporting, and introducing a real-time integration layer, LodgIQ has reimagined the core of revenue management, delivering the speed, automation, and strategic precision today’s hospitality leaders demand.

Earlier this week, I found myself at Expedia Group’s Roman offices, seated across from Elisa Ragno for Guess the Guest. The plan, at least on paper, was simple: talk about AI and hospitality. What happened instead was closer to a dérive, a drift across the borderlands where travel, technology, and human complexity leak into each other. Elisa had the admirable courage to ask real questions and the even greater courage to let me answer them without a safety net.

In the hospitality industry, achieving sustainability is often viewed as a complex challenge, one that requires coordination, consistency, and commitment across departments. Interestingly, many of the sustainable products we introduce into hotel environments embody these same qualities. If they could speak, their daily experiences might sound surprisingly similar to those of hotel teams working through peak occupancy.

Langham Hospitality Group (LHG) has launched a trio of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to address changes in how people source information. The new toolkit, which complements the Group’s existing channels, gives guests the flexibility to make enquiries either digitally or directly with hotel staff, who in turn gain broader access to training materials and commercial insights.

In an industry defined by rapid change and relentless competition, leadership transitions can determine whether a hospitality firm adapts or falls behind. This article unpacks how CEO turnover can become a lever for innovation, exploring who drives the boldest transformations, which organizational structures amplify or constrain them, and what these dynamics mean for boards shaping the next generation of leaders.

The world of hotel and venue sourcing for events has never felt more demanding. Planners want speed, clarity, and venues that spark connection and deliver memorable experiences.

Small Luxury Hotels of the World™ (SLH), renowned for its independently minded portfolio of boutique properties, has launched a sustainability Call-to-Action (CTA) Report.

Hilton is continuing its expansion in France, with a portfolio that has almost doubled in just five years, supported in part by the recent arrival of its new premium budget brand Spark in Lyon. Today, the American hotel group operates 14 hotels in Paris and the Île-de-France region, with another property to be added to the portfolio: DoubleTree by Hilton Paris Boulogne, scheduled to open in January 2026. The hotel will result from the rapid conversion of the former Radisson Blu Paris Boulogne, which has been taken over under a management contract by Schroders Capital.