Category: Recent News

Best Western Hotels & Resorts, the globally recognized hospitality brand within the BWH Hotels portfolio, and the world’s largest travel guidance platform, Tripadvisor, today announce the launch of their new “Go for the Goal” platform, an innovative AI-powered trip planning experience designed to help soccer fans plan multi-city travel itineraries ahead of the world’s biggest international soccer tournament in Summer 2026.

This year, GuestRevu has once again stood out in the global hotel technology landscape, being named 2026’s Best Guest Survey Software by HotelTechReport. In addition to this top honour, GuestRevu also finished in the top 3 in the Reputation Management category and ranked among the Top 10 in the Hotelier’s Choice Awards. Feedback contributing to these accolades was gathered from 489 unique hotels across the globe, highlighting the platform’s international reach and the strength of real-world insight behind this recognition.

Over the past few years, like to 3 to 5 years, conversations about generational differences in the workplace have grown noticeably more charged. What once felt like manageable tension has turned into open and public frustration, with leaders and teams often speaking past one another instead of engaging productively. These challenges are frequently attributed to differences in values, work ethic, or even expectations, yet that explanation overlooks what I consistently see on the ground: a leadership education that has not kept in pace with the workforce that is now expected to lead.

Today’s travellers expect to move fluidly between inspiration, research, and booking. They might discover a hotel on social media, validate it using AI tools or OTAs, and then book directly when the experience feels clear, valuable, and easy.

Modern sales leadership must rethink talent, incentives, and team design to scale revenue in 2026.

The Cultural Dimensions of Behaviour model from R.D. Lewis is a very inspirational observation. It is widely accepted that different cultures on the linear-active – multi-active – reactive triangle have a significant impact on our lifestyles, preferences and behaviours. Does the guest’s cultural background have a bearing on the demand for wellness and hospitality? Is our behaviour predetermined? Do hospitality and wellness providers need to observe these cultural determinants when creating and providing services? Do guests prefer familiarity or novelty?

In luxury hospitality, the most powerful statements are often the quietest ones. As bleisure travel continues to reshape guest expectations, hotels are increasingly judged not only by their public spaces or meeting facilities, but by the private moments that follow the moments when work gives way to experience.

Across Europe, the hotel check-in desk has quietly become one of the most critical pressure points in hospitality operations.

San Diego, CA – January 29 — Cloudbeds today announced the launch of the Cloudbeds Collection, a curated global showcase of 100 independent hospitality properties shaping the future of the industry through intentional design, unconventional business models, community impact, and bold creative vision.

Every revenue manager has had that moment. You sit there, staring at the screen. Pickup is… meh. Forecast is blinking at you like it knows something you don’t. Sales wants action. Marketing wants “a campaign.” The GM wants certainty. The owner wants sleep.