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Your Guests Are Planning Trips With AI. Your Hotel Can't Even Get Its Data Clean.

Your Guests Are Planning Trips With AI. Your Hotel Can't Even Get Its Data Clean.

Nearly half of APAC travelers now use AI for end-to-end trip planning, and ChatGPT is already driving more booking page visits than traditional search. The hotels that can't get found by an AI assistant aren't losing a marketing channel... they're becoming invisible.

Japan Hotel REIT's Flat RevPAR Hides a Rate Problem That Won't Fix Itself

Japan Hotel REIT's Flat RevPAR Hides a Rate Problem That Won't Fix Itself

JHR posted ¥14,185 RevPAR in January, essentially unchanged year-on-year. But occupancy climbed 1.9 points while ADR dropped 2.3%. That's not stability. That's a trade.

The Olympics Remind Us: Hotels Exist to Welcome the World

The Olympics Remind Us: Hotels Exist to Welcome the World

Everyone's debating global tourism policy. Nobody's talking about what happens when a housekeeper sees a guest's flag and smiles because she means it.