Hospitality is not an island

For a long time, accommodation, which evolved into hospitality, was a key component of the travel chain. It was an essential link, certainly, but it came at the end of the transportation chain and served as the starting point for the chain of tourist or business activities. This travel chain created – and still creates – a variety of ecosystems with their specialized actors: transport providers, accommodation providers, receptive agencies, leisure sites, restaurants… Solid by nature, yet often rivals, even antagonistic, when it comes to sharing the value chain.

IDeaS Accelerates Expansion in Saudi Arabia with Elaf Group Partnership

IDeaS, a SAS company and the world’s leading provider of hospitality revenue management software and services, has announced a new partnership with Elaf Group, a leading hotel group in Saudi Arabia, for the implementation of IDeaS’ G3 Revenue Management System across an initial four hotels in the Elaf Group portfolio.

The Land Paradox: How Financial Stress is Creating Tomorrow’s Development Goldmine

Today’s challenging capital environment has created an unexpected opportunity: a surge in land offerings for ground-up hotel and resort development. While sellers may face financial pressures that drive these offerings, buyers confront elevated construction and capital costs that fundamentally reshape land valuations. This dynamic often stems from internal organizational changes that forces land sales yet creates a paradox. With both cost of capital and construction expenses expected to remain elevated, land values have declined significantly from previous peaks.

Introducing Yazz Collective, The Mediterranean’s Chicest Boutique Resort

Set within a private bay in Fethiye, Turkey, Yazz Collective is the Mediterranean’s hottest destination which reopened this year for its third season in May with an additional 16 bungalows, 4 brand new glamping tents, and a new beach restaurant. A retreat in the week that turns up the volume on weekends, the resort boasts an unrivalled location and is only accessible by sea.

How AI is (and isn’t) transforming European hospitality

In today’s hospitality sector, discussions among hoteliers invariably lead to artificial intelligence (AI). Announced as a transformative force, AI is poised to redefine everything from guest services and dynamic pricing to predictive analytics and content creation. However, a significant gap exists between this potential and its current implementation. This raises critical questions: what is the true state of AI adoption in the industry and what primary obstacles are impeding its progress?

Why regenerative tourism is the future of hospitality

In this week’s episode of Hotel Moment, Aradhana Khowala, CEO of Aptamind Partners, joins Revinate CMO Karen Stephens with a sobering perspective on the state of hospitality and global tourism. Aradhana explains the ways hospitality has become “extractive” — leaving little in the way of community growth and human flourishing. But, even so, Aradhana offers hope that more hoteliers can pivot to regenerative tourism and start giving back locally — ultimately supporting their guests and staff appropriately in times of political, social, and economic turmoil.