A federal appeals court revived an antitrust lawsuit alleging that Caesars, MGM, and Hard Rock used shared AI pricing software to collude on Atlantic City room rates. If you're a hotel feeding your rates into a third-party RMS that also serves your comp set, you might want to read the ruling before your next pricing recommendation.
Hilton's Q2 net income hit $482 million, the development pipeline is at a record 541,300 rooms, and RevPAR grew nearly 4%. But when a company spends almost twice its net income buying back its own shares in a single quarter, the technology question nobody's asking is what's NOT getting funded.
Cuba's tourist arrivals dropped 55.8% in early 2026, hotel occupancy hit 21.5%, and international chains are pulling out en masse. The technology story nobody's telling is what happens when an entire country's hospitality infrastructure loses its payment systems, its booking channels, and its skilled workforce simultaneously.
The UK's competition authority is investigating whether Hilton, IHG, Marriott, and CoStar's STR platform enabled algorithmic collusion on room rates. If you've ever benchmarked your ADR against your comp set... yeah, they're talking about you.
