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Hilton said it wants to help owners facing squeezed margins, such as by cutting some fees. "We're spending a huge amount of time on this," says CEO Chris Nassetta.

IHG is the latest major hotel group to test natural-language search in its site and app. An equally notable move is its upcoming content platform to help ensure that its hotels' unique qualities are visible in AI-powered search results.

A regulatory change most investors are still catching up to is reshaping how China’s hotel assets get bought, sold and valued.

A Vancouver company that runs hundreds of niche travel sites bought the Sonder name. The brand carcass has value for its residual search traffic.

As wildfires grow more frequent and severe, insurers are no longer pricing risk by location alone — they’re underwriting based on how resilient a property is, pushing operators to firm up their hotels.

Selling your brand to a major group and staying on to run the hotels is an unusual move. A year in, the distribution lift is real. Whether Marriott can now grow CitizenM beyond its original backer is the open question.

Wyndham’s U.S. room count looks stable. What’s actually happening is a systematic swap — lower-fee economy hotels out, higher-fee midscale in.

Gulf hotels were already struggling before this month's headlines. A hoped-for recovery may get pushed out further.

Maybe real luxury has nothing to do with polish or thread count. Maybe it's relinquishing control entirely, so a broken boat engine becomes the best part of the trip instead of a complaint. That's a far harder product to scale than a five-star spa, and it's exactly why remote adventure lodges keep pulling in guests who already have everything money can buy.

The timeshare segment is a lending business in a hospitality costume, and that dynamic is helping to drive consolidation.