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On June 12, 2025, EHL and Asteria Investment Managers held its third-annual Sustainable Investing Forum on the school’s flagship campus in Lausanne. The focus of this year’s event was on shareholder engagement as a critical driver of sustainable strategies. Once again, the forum brought together academics and industry players from diverse backgrounds.

As a revenue manager, if you focus solely on room income, you risk overlooking valuable contributions from other parts of the property that can significantly boost your bottom line, such as F&B, spa services and paid add-ons.

Influence Society, a leading digital marketing agency specializing in high-end hospitality, has been selected by MyBoutiqueHotel, a Paris-based curator of boutique hotels and design accommodations worldwide, to lead its international digital growth strategy. The partnership aims to enhance MyBoutiqueHotel’s global visibility and provide the reactivity needed to serve its high-end, design-conscious clientele. This collaboration marks a strategic step in scaling a highly curated hospitality concept to new international markets.

LVMH founder Bernard Arnault, through his family holding company Financière Agache, has acquired the luxury 20-room Hôtel Cap-Estel in Èze, France, for an amount reported to be €200 million (€10 million per room). The property is situated on a two-hectare private seafront peninsula halfway between Nice and Monaco, below the historic medieval hilltop village of Èze. The hotel includes a restaurant, bar, two swimming pools and three meeting rooms. The price per room sets a new benchmark, which reflects the uniqueness and extreme paucity of this type of asset and the growing demand from the super-rich for ultra-luxury hotels.

As summer winds down and the robust vacation season slows, it’s time for resort and venue operators to shift gears and ramp up for budget season. Fall offers the perfect opportunity to take a step back, evaluate what worked, what didn’t, and new opportunities to improve both operations and revenue in the coming year. With advances in experiential technology and AI, businesses can plan smarter, crafting memorable guest experiences that align with evolving expectations while staying budget-conscious.

RobosizeME, a provider of hospitality automation solutions, has published The Hotelier’s Guide to Starting Your Automation Journey, a new operational guide designed to help hotel owners and executives take practical, low-disruption steps toward process automation. Authored with insights from industry leaders with decades of experience in hotel technology, the guide outlines a simple, seven-step framework for identifying and implementing automation opportunities that streamline operations, eliminate repetitive admin tasks, and allow hotel teams to focus on the guest experience.

This article concludes Hospitality Net’s Thematics campaign with Shiji Group on Single Provider for Seamless Data. Throughout the series we have examined how integrated systems can transform hotel operations and the guest journey. For this final edition, the focus turns to one of the most pressing questions facing the industry today: how to build clean, connected datasets that can support useful applications of artificial intelligence.

Pets have become family, and more travelers are taking their furry companions along when they check into luxury hotels and resorts. To meet this growing trend, properties are looking for ways to connect with guests on a deeper, more emotional level. That’s where our new pet-themed key cards step in — a playful, stylish, and sustainable touch that instantly makes a stay feel more personal.

Concerns about protests, civil unrest and political tensions in the United States are influencing the travel decisions of a growing number of individuals, particularly among international travelers and younger respondents, according to the latest Global Rescue Summer 2025 Traveler Safety and Sentiment Survey.

After almost 20 years as a cornerstone of the Shoreditch scene, the first hotel in The Hoxton series is set for a fresh new look. As the brand has evolved and expanded, so too has the design and feel of a Hox: each property takes cues from its surrounding neighbourhoods, but there’s an intangible thread that runs through the series, creating an experience that is distinctly Hox. The Shoreditch refresh will celebrate and elevate the original and much-loved features of the property, while bringing that characteristic homey, layered and design-led Hox character even further to the fore. Alongside the reimagined design identity, led by Ennismore’s in-house design team at AIME Studios, comes a brand new restaurant concept in the form of Il Bambini Club, taking the baton from Hoxton Grill (the first ever Hox restaurant) and bringing the warmth of Italian hospitality to the lobby, with existing Peruvian hotspot Llama Inn still calling the hotel rooftop home. The hotel refresh will be ongoing…