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IHG Hotels & Resorts (IHG), one of the world’s leading hotel companies, today announces development opportunity availability in the U.S.* for Ruby Hotels (Ruby), its 20th global brand. As the latest addition to its premium collection of brands, Ruby will offer a new and attractive option for cost- and style-conscious travelers in U.S. city centers. For owners, the brand represents a versatile alternative that is ready made for urban settings often challenged by significant barriers to entry and space constraints.

Few new hotel brands can claim the kind of debut LivAway Suites has enjoyed. In its first 12 months of operating hotels, the Salt Lake City–based economy extended stay brand has sold more than 100,000 room nights, a milestone that industry observers say underscores both pent-up demand in the extended stay segment and the brand’s ability to capture it.

The owner’s exit strategy must be considered as soon as the operator is selected, and the Hotel Management Agreement (HMA) negotiated. Indeed, a well-structured exit strategy can help avoid a costly dispute and preserve an asset’s value and liquidity. The following key points, illustrated by real-life examples, should be considered.

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Think of 2025 as a tightrope act for hoteliers: revenue gains on one side, rising costs on the other. Step too far in either direction, and balance is lost. Globally, profits are still moving upward, but the margin for error—literally—is shrinking fast.

When the latest State of Distribution report landed earlier this year, it did more than summarize industry trends—it offered a rare panoramic view of how hotel commercial teams are evolving in real time. Built in collaboration with RateGain, HEDNA, and the NYU SPS Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality, the 2025 edition is grounded in responses from more than 700 hotel brands across 310 cities, representing 21,000 properties worldwide.

The holiday season is a pivotal time for the hospitality industry, and in 2025, the digital landscape is more complex than ever. When we look at Google Insights for holiday travel over the past several years, the most compelling trend is the surge we’re seeing in 2025, with interest spiking particularly in July and August. These months alone show a lift of roughly 137% compared to last year, representing the highest level of interest in the past four years.

There’s been a lot of buzz in the media recently claiming that France’s Loi Climat & Résilience will force all hotels to obtain eco-certification by 2026. But a closer reading of the legislation reveals a different picture.

Wine has long been perceived as a male-dominated world. For centuries, symbolic authority, from inheritance in family domains to the role of the “master winemaker”, has largely been coded as masculine. Women were present, often as vineyard workers or “wine widows” taking over after a husband’s death, but their visibility and recognition were limited. Today, the landscape is changing. In some oenology programs, women now make up the majority of students, and in countries such as Spain and Italy, close to a third of wineries are led or owned by women. Yet this presence is not evenly reflected across positions of leadership and prestige.

Cloudbeds, the AI-powered platform fueling hotel growth, today announced advanced revenue intelligence and guest marketing capabilities by Signals, the hospitality industry’s first foundation AI model designed specifically for hotels. Built on breakthrough causal AI technology that processes 4 billion data points per hour, these new capabilities revolutionize revenue management and guest marketing by understanding cause-and-effect relationships between market forces rather than simple correlations.