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Minor Hotels opened Oaks Vacation Club Kyoto Shijo and Oaks Vacation Club Kyoto Gojo, extending the brand to a second Asian country. Plus, more hotel deal and development news from APAC.

Strawberry's tech chief sees AI models commoditizing and the edge moving to clean, connected data. In Europe, she wants regulators judging rules by whether they work as much as by how well they are documented.

On this episode of Suite Success, host Katie Cline sits down with Anuraag Bhatnagar, CEO of The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts, and explores his hospitality “calling,” hiring for values, and delivering luxury through deep human connection and anticipatory service rather than transactions.

A single resort opening is reshaping how an entire destination's hotels renovate, price and package their rooms — well before its doors open.

If meeting planners start managing AI agents, the case for adding headcount is about to get harder to make.

Minor Hotels built its Vietnam business around overseas travelers heading to the beach. Now rising domestic travel, corporate business and meetings are giving the hotel group a reason to move into Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

Optimism is up, but budgets aren’t. With nearly half of corporate meeting budgets flat and attendee costs still rising into 2027, planners are being asked to do the same events with less.

Today’s meeting planners have a remit moving further upstream into judgment, risk management, and big-picture strategic business decisions. They’ve always been expected to make complicated work look easy. The conversations at Skift Meetings Forum showed how much more nuanced and complex that work has become.

Marriott's Mexico portfolio spans more than 44,000 rooms across 25 brands, with 76 hotels in the pipeline. Plus, more hotel deal and development news.

Live tourism is much bigger than the events themselves. The industry now has to decide how to organize around it.

On this week’s Good Morning Hospitality, A Skift Podcast: Hotels Edition, Sarah Dandashy and Steve Turk dig into two stories with real implications for hotel operators heading into the fall.

Cannabis trade shows face limits few other B2B events do: no sampling, no sales, and venues that may ban consumption anywhere on the property. MJ Unpacked, now three years into its Atlantic City run, shows how organizers design around those limits.