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Think of 2025 as a tightrope act for hoteliers: revenue gains on one side, rising costs on the other. Step too far in either direction, and balance is lost. Globally, profits are still moving upward, but the margin for error—literally—is shrinking fast.

When the latest State of Distribution report landed earlier this year, it did more than summarize industry trends—it offered a rare panoramic view of how hotel commercial teams are evolving in real time. Built in collaboration with RateGain, HEDNA, and the NYU SPS Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality, the 2025 edition is grounded in responses from more than 700 hotel brands across 310 cities, representing 21,000 properties worldwide.

The holiday season is a pivotal time for the hospitality industry, and in 2025, the digital landscape is more complex than ever. When we look at Google Insights for holiday travel over the past several years, the most compelling trend is the surge we’re seeing in 2025, with interest spiking particularly in July and August. These months alone show a lift of roughly 137% compared to last year, representing the highest level of interest in the past four years.

There’s been a lot of buzz in the media recently claiming that France’s Loi Climat & Résilience will force all hotels to obtain eco-certification by 2026. But a closer reading of the legislation reveals a different picture.

Wine has long been perceived as a male-dominated world. For centuries, symbolic authority, from inheritance in family domains to the role of the “master winemaker”, has largely been coded as masculine. Women were present, often as vineyard workers or “wine widows” taking over after a husband’s death, but their visibility and recognition were limited. Today, the landscape is changing. In some oenology programs, women now make up the majority of students, and in countries such as Spain and Italy, close to a third of wineries are led or owned by women. Yet this presence is not evenly reflected across positions of leadership and prestige.

Cloudbeds, the AI-powered platform fueling hotel growth, today announced advanced revenue intelligence and guest marketing capabilities by Signals, the hospitality industry’s first foundation AI model designed specifically for hotels. Built on breakthrough causal AI technology that processes 4 billion data points per hour, these new capabilities revolutionize revenue management and guest marketing by understanding cause-and-effect relationships between market forces rather than simple correlations.

Mews, the leading hospitality operating system, has been selected as the property management system for Ash Hotels, the award-winning US hotel brand renowned for restoring historic properties as rich community hubs. All five Ash properties – including Hotel Peter & Paul, The Siren, Neptune, Ulysses and the upcoming Shenandoah Mansions in Virginia – will be fully onboarded to the platform by the end of this year.

What’s the biggest challenge you face running a hotel today? Rising guest expectations, fewer staff, or the constant race against time? Well, for most hotel leaders I speak with, it’s all three. And despite all the innovation, too much hotel tech still seems to get in the way or slow teams down with undue complexities instead of smoothing out operations.