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A year after celebrating its bicentennial year, The Shelbourne, Dublin’s Grande Dame, is preparing to embark on the next chapter in its illustrious story. In late October 2025, the iconic five-star hotel will begin an extensive year-long refurbishment of the guestroom offering, designed to preserve its timeless elegance while subtly evolving the experience for a new era.

It usually starts with a simple fix. One team wants better upsell options, so a new CRM is added. Another needs richer analytics, so in comes a reporting tool. The spa needs its own booking interface. The restaurant team demands a POS that talks to the kitchen the way they like. All good intentions.

With growing pressure for ESG transparency and investors scrutinizing every claim, how does your hotel prove its commitment to the sustainability? Vague promises are no longer enough.

Look, I love this industry. I’ve spent decades helping hotel tech companies break through the noise. But there’s one thing we have to talk about: the pitch slap epidemic.

Andronis is known for its high-end hospitality and personalised service in Greece’s most famous tourist spots, Santorini and Paros. It has a hand-picked selection of five award-winning luxury properties. Andronis invites travellers to experience the Aegean through a lens of understated luxury. With a commitment to delivering hospitality that goes beyond expectations, Andronis crafts experiences and memories that linger long after guests have departed.

Geopolitical risk is no longer background noise. It’s the soundtrack to global business – and it’s growing louder.

For the brand-new all-suite resort Tella Thera in northwestern Crete, the surrounding landscape is more than just a setting. It is an essential and respected part of every guest experience. From partially subterranean suites with private pools to biomorphically shaped architecture and décor, planted rooftop terraces, a holistic spa, and a zero-waste restaurant, the family-owned property brings a new kind of conscious hospitality to the Greek island.

In the summer of 2025, traveling on business, I checked into a U.S. boutique hotel that promised cutting-edge hospitality: a 100% automated operation. No front desk, no humans—just email confirmations, entry codes, text messages, and chatbots. What could possibly go wrong?

Leaders from across the hospitality sector say the industry is approaching an inflection point where technology will shift from a back-office support act to a center-stage driver of guest experience and operational success.

The other night, my 10-year-old son Haydo came to me, wide-eyed, and said: “Dad… a girl told me she loves me. What do I say?”