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Registration and hotel reservations are now available for the 2026 Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC®), the largest and longest-running, nonprofit event of its kind. Produced by Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®), HITEC 2026 will be held on June 15–18 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas USA.

As we step into 2026, we would like to wish you, your teams, and your organisations a strong and successful year ahead. A new year brings new opportunities — to sharpen our thinking, strengthen our leadership, and continue building a hospitality industry that is commercially strong, future-ready, and people-driven. As part of this momentum, we’re pleased to share a preview of our upcoming events, designed to inform, connect, and support you throughout the year ahead.

Colicchio Consulting, a national leader in identifying, strategically planning and securing unique food, beverage and entertainment experiences for developers and hospitality groups, has released its latest report, “The State of Food Halls 2026,” which confirms that the segment experienced an overall growth rate of 24.89 percent since 2023, the last year the report was issued. The 2026 report continues to examine the most impactful trends shaping food halls across the commercial, mixed-use, student housing, retail and hospitality sectors, including key takeaways from industry leaders and data from the more than 500 food halls that have opened in the US since researchers began tracking the segment in 2014.

IRIS, the leading provider of digital F&B and guest experience platforms has been selected by The Landmark London, one of the capital’s most iconic luxury hotels, to enhance its in-room dining operations, improve service efficiency, and deliver a more seamless ordering experience for guests.

RateGain Travel Technologies Limited (NSE: RATEGAIN), a global leader of AI-powered SaaS solutions for the travel and hospitality industry, today announced an exclusive reseller partnership with Aztech Digital, an adtech solution provider and trusted advisor to hotels across Greece and Cyprus. This partnership will expand the reach of UNO VIVA, the first CRS-integrated AI voice agent built for hotels.

2025 was the year many organisations discovered that “smart” AI agents still fail when they are forced to run on yesterday’s enterprise plumbing, and 2026 will belong to the leaders who rebuild the nervous system, not just the brain, by redesigning workflows for an agentic-first world, shifting from rigid request-response patterns to event-driven fluidity, and putting three practical pillars in place: semantic telemetry agents can actually read, stateless and asynchronous APIs that support self-correcting long-running work, and a metadata layer that turns clean data into context-rich decisions, so if you want a clear, no-nonsense blueprint for moving beyond pilots and breaking through the production wall, read the full text.

RateGain Travel Technologies Limited (NSE: RATEGAIN), a global leader of AI-powered SaaS solutions for the travel and hospitality industry, today announced an exclusive reseller partnership with Aztech Digital, an adtech solution provider and trusted advisor to hotels across Greece and Cyprus. This partnership will expand the reach of UNO VIVA, the first CRS-integrated AI voice agent built for hotels.

As we look ahead to 2026, the year feels genuinely promising for Hospitality Net and for the wider hospitality community. Our industry continues to move forward through conversation, collaboration, and the kind of face-to-face connection that turns ideas into initiatives. Events remain the moments where perspectives sharpen, partnerships form, and new solutions move from concept to operational reality. With that spirit in mind, we are pleased to introduce the 2026 Hospitality Net Industry Calendar, a curated guide to the year’s most relevant gatherings across the global hospitality landscape.

In recent years, massive leaps have been made in the development of humanoid robots. The idea of making mechanical humans that can do our chores for us is as old as Talos, the fictional bronze man that was thought up by the ancient Greeks in 300 B.C. However, recent developments in robot building might make human-shaped robots a real possibility in people’s houses in the near future, and possibly also in our professional work environments.

PRAGUE, 8 January 2026. RobosizeME, a leading provider of workflow automation solutions for the hospitality industry, has announced its sponsorship of the upcoming Oracle Hospitality Summit 2026, taking place January 19–21 at the Park Plaza London Riverbank. As part of its presence at the event, RobosizeME will spotlight how its workflow automation solutions (already integrated with Oracle Hospitality Integration Platform, OHIP) are delivering measurable operational efficiencies for Oracle customers worldwide, saving over 24,000 staff hours annually across common front- and back-office tasks.