Corinthia Grand Hotel du Boulevard Bucharest, the highly anticipated all-suite boutique luxury hotel in Romania’s vibrant capital, is now officially open. Welcoming guests from around the world, the hotel redefines luxury hospitality in the country, offering an intimate and meticulously curated experience.
Enhance Your Hotel Forecasting with Big Data: A Smarter Approach to Revenue Strategy
There’s more data available about your guests than ever before. Today, we’re learning about travelers who visited our websites, began searching dates and locations, but left without booking. This provides a clearer picture of unconstrained demand, a more comprehensive look that goes beyond just guests booking a room, exploring potential shoppers as well.
IHG to debut Vignette Collection brand in Sicily
Costa Irminia Retreat & Spa, Vignette Collection to join IHG’s growing luxury and lifestyle portfolio in the second half of 2025.
From New York to Osaka, Here’s Where Hilton is Opening and Renovating This Season
As Hilton enters the second quarter of the year, the hospitality company looks forward to opening the doors to some incredible properties and debuting exciting renovations. Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts is set to have a busy spring with the return of the highly anticipated Waldorf Astoria New York, as well as the opening of the brand’s first hotels in Japan and Costa Rica, with Waldorf Astoria Osaka and Waldorf Astoria Costa Rica Punta Cacique both opening in April. Additionally the extended stay brand LivSmart Studios by Hilton will debut this quarter, with openings in Kokomo, Indiana and Tullahoma, Tennessee. Here’s a sneak peek at what’s to come.
Phishing campaign impersonates Booking .com, delivers a suite of credential-stealing malware
Starting in December 2024, leading up to some of the busiest travel days, Microsoft Threat Intelligence identified a phishing campaign that impersonates online travel agency Booking.com and targets organizations in the hospitality industry. The campaign uses a social engineering technique called ClickFix to deliver multiple credential-stealing malware in order to conduct financial fraud and theft. As of February 2025, this campaign is ongoing.
The USALI 12th edition is finally out. Why is this good news and why it is never too late to adopt it.
On February 2025 HFTP finally launched the long-awaited 12th edition of the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry (USALI), the standardized financial reporting system the hospitality industry has relied on for decades. The release of the 12th Revised Edition marks a significant milestone, introducing enhancements that align with contemporary industry practices and address emerging global challenges long ignored by the industry. What are the changes and how are these going to impact the hotel real estate business?
From Magpies to Babysitters: Cheat Sheet to Wellness Innovation in Hospitality
Does innovation always need to be technology-based? Also in wellness, or in hospitality? This question comes up often during discussions with hospitality, wellness or spa colleagues. Being intrigued by the issue did a quick Google search: almost every page of the top hits Google found was referring to some sort of technological innovation.
Considering How AI Will Impact Spa Operations
If there’s one phrase to remember for how AI and spa will intersect, it’s ‘technology-adjacent therapies’. That is, for our industry where human-to-human contact is ever-so-centric to guest satisfaction, it’s not that automation will supplant practitioners but that these contemporary tools will offset the undesirable, repetitive tasks to augment the experience. Hence, hoteliers and managers shouldn’t necessarily look to how AI can boost the guest journey but to their own teams’ experience, otherwise known as the software’s ‘end users’.
Profits on Tap: UrVenue Pours Innovation Into Bar & Restaurant Expo 2025
LAS VEGAS, MARCH 24, 2025 — Owners and operators of the most innovative bars, restaurants, and nightlife venues are converging on Las Vegas to attend the Bar & Restaurant Expo. This LIVE event is bringing F&B pros together March 24 to 26 at the Las Vegas Convention Center to rewrite the rules of hospitality for the foreseeable future. It’s where grit meets opportunity … where people who were once okay just keeping up are now choosing to level up … and where new products, partnerships, and technologies are setting trends, revolutionizing operations, and elevating the customer experience across the board.
The focus is growth, net revenue growth
While net unit growth (NUG) — a measure of the increase in available hotel rooms over a period of time — has been a key performance indicator for many hospitality brands, many hoteliers are now prioritizing net revenue growth (NRG) — the rate at which a company’s net revenue increases over time.