Category: Recent News

SuitePad is refining its focus on large hotels and chains, restructuring its teams to accelerate international growth and deepen global partnerships. With 80% of new business already coming from hotel chains and a 20% increase in team size over the past six months, SuitePad is strengthening its market position. Profitable since mid-2024, the company’s financial success is fueling further expansion and reinforcing its global presence.

Jerne, the leading platform connecting digital-focused travel curators with experience providers, has reached 11,000 registered curators (content creators, social media influencers, and travel advisor multi-hyphenates) alongside announcing the appointment of Jeremy Sikkema as the company’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), effective immediately.

Following a banner year for hotel technology investments, Maestro PMS, the leader in All-In-One cloud hosted, private cloud and on-premises property-management systems for independent hotels and luxury resorts, unveiled its development roadmap for 2025, replete with features, integrations and capabilities the industry has been requesting. New additions to Maestro’s software roadmap include enhancements requested by hotel customers, interface updates to overhaul how hotels use Maestro’s groundbreaking property-management system and unique innovations. As a result, these investments will empower Maestro PMS users with the most flexible, impactful PMS available to independent hoteliers today.

Dive into Sabre’s Hospitality Trends 2025 report, where we explore the top trends reshaping the industry, from hyper-personalization to the rise of hotel retailing.

We´ve seen it firsthand—the hotel industry is changing at a pace we’ve never experienced before. To stay ahead in 2025, we all need to adapt to new trends that are redefining how hotels connect with their guests. Developments including AI-driven marketing are transforming outreach, hyper-personalization is setting new guest expectations, and sustainability isn’t just a trend—it’s the future.

Real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield has added to its growing Hospitality Capital Markets team in London by hiring Andrew Horder as a Partner and Anastasia Cooper as a Consultant.Horder has more than 25 years’ experience in the hospitality investment space across brokerage, investor, and development roles in London, the UK and EMEA. Previously Director of EMEA Development for Frasers Hospitality, the global investor and operator of serviced apartments, hotels and premium rental apartments, Horder has also held positions with AccorHotels, EQ Group and Savills.Cooper is an Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne graduate who joins from a specialist hotel brokerage and consultancy, advising on acquisitions and disposals across the UK. Both she and Horder will work closely with Ed Fitch, Head of Hospitality UK, as well as supporting the wider growth of Cushman & Wakefield’s EMEA Hospitality platform, headed by Jon Hubbard. Ed Fitch, Head of Hospitality UK & Ireland at Cushman & Wakefield, sa…

RobosizeME, a leader in hospitality process automation, has announced the launch of its Automated Reconciliation Suite, a cutting-edge solution designed to simplify and accelerate the complex payment and commission processes in the hotel industry. By automating reconciliation for travel agency commissions, OTA payments, employee benefit vouchers, and more, the solution significantly reduces manual errors and improves cash flow, saving hotels hundreds of hours of administrative work.

Among markets outside of the U.S, Shanghai, London and Dubai are projected to open the most hotel rooms in 2025, according to CoStar pipeline data. CoStar is a leading provider of online real estate marketplaces, information and analytics in the property markets.

Recently, Tripadvisor fired more than 150 employees and contractors and reshuffled top management in an attempt to President Kristen Dalton announced internally that its chief technology officer and general manager of e-commerce will be leaving the company, according to a staff email obtained by Skift.

Hotel owners face a critical decision when selecting a property management structure: should the property be brand-managed or be managed by an independent, third-party operator?