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LodgIQ, a leading provider of AI-powered revenue management technology for hotels, has announced its sponsorship of the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) Commercial Strategy Week 2025. This sponsorship reflects LodgIQ’s ongoing support for advancing revenue management towards commercial strategy and underscores its role as a trusted technology partner for hospitality revenue leaders.

During the EHL Open Innovation Summit, we sat down with Diane Binder to talk about the role of virtual reality, regeneration, and what real luxury means today. As Founder and CEO of Regenopolis and Co-founder of 700’000 heures Impact, Diane brings a unique lens that bridges sustainable development, hospitality, and systemic change. In our conversation, she shared why we need to move beyond metrics, how hospitality can become part of local ecosystems, and why the next era of travel will be defined by meaning, not just experience.

During the EHL Open Innovation Summit in Lausanne, we sat down with Rainer Stampfer, President of Global Operations, Hotels and Resorts at Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. Our conversation explored the growing role of artificial intelligence in luxury hospitality, the evolving expectations around personalization, and why the human element continues to be the ultimate marker of excellence in high-end service.

Quore, a leading provider of workforce management solutions for hotels, announces the completion of a fully-customized Preventive Maintenance (PM) template buildout for LBA Hospitality—an award-winning hotel management company recognized for operational excellence across a diverse portfolio of branded properties. Since 2017, LBA has partnered with Quore to elevate how its engineering and operations teams manage preventative maintenance, inspections, and asset protection. Today, all LBA-managed hotels—spanning a portfolio of more than 100 properties across top global brands including Hilton, IHG, Marriott, Best Western, and Hyatt—leverage the Quore PM platform as their standardized solution.

ProVision Partners (“ProVision”), a leading global strategic growth marketing, technology, and commercial services advisory firm to the travel and hospitality industry, today announces that Daniel Johnson, Strategic Advisor – EMEA, will participate in an educational session focused on hotel data security at the upcoming HITEC Conference. The panel, titled “Building a Hospitality Cybersecurity Culture: From Frontline to C-Suite,” is scheduled to take place on Monday, June 16, from 9:00 AM to 10:15 AM at HITEC, hosted in rooms 127-128 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.

AI is no longer a futuristic buzzword in the hospitality world, it’s already reshaping how hotels operate, communicate, and make decisions. From guest messaging to revenue management, AI is becoming deeply embedded in the day-to-day functions of hotels around the world.

While attending the EHL Open Innovation Summit in Lausanne, we met with Sarah Marquis, National Geographic Explorer, to talk about the future of travel and what makes it truly meaningful. In our conversation, she reflected on the importance of emotional connection, the irreplaceable value of walking, and how real travel is never about technology but about presence, feeling, and being part of the natural world.

[Amsterdam, 3rd June 2025] – Mews, the industry-leading hospitality cloud, has announced a major milestone in broadening hospitality teams leveraging AI in their day-to-day. AI Smart Tips is reshaping guest interactions by giving hotel staff easy access to a centralized summary of each guest’s key information and preferences, available at every point of contact throughout the guest’s stay. Mews AI Smart Tips are now viewed over 5 million times a week by hoteliers around the world, helping them to personalize the experience for their guests.

In a firm show of resolve, Dalata Hotel Group has slammed the door on an unsolicited €6.05-per-share cash approach from the Pandox–Eiendomsspar partnership, branding the proposal a glaring undervaluation of Ireland’s largest hotel operator.

At the Open Innovation Summit hosted by EHL, we sat down with Michael Levie, Founding Partner at CitizenM Hotels. We asked him a few questions about where he sees the biggest tech shifts coming in hospitality and what makes CitizenM stand out in the way they work. Michael talked about middleware, microdata and why moving to the cloud is not enough. He also explained how the culture at CitizenM is like a jam session and how that energy still lives on today.