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  • Worth a Thousand Words: Hospitality Visual Group Launches
  • The Only Room in the Building Expedia Can’t Book
  • ChatGPT Ads Give Distinctive Hotels a New Place to Be Discovered

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lodgingmagazine.com /1 month ago

Worth a Thousand Words: Hospitality Visual Group Launches

Cincinnati, Ohio-based Hospitality Visual Group (HVG) is a recently debuted visual media company focused on the hospitality industry, creating website and booking channel imagery,...

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hospitalitynet.org /2 weeks ago

The Only Room in the Building Expedia Can’t Book

The article argues that targeted email campaigns to outside luxury traveler lists offer hotels a fixed-cost, commission-free alternative to OTAs for acquiring new guests.

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hospitalitynet.org /5 days ago

ChatGPT Ads Give Distinctive Hotels a New Place to Be Discovered

A marketing consultant outlines how lifestyle and luxury hotels can use ChatGPT Ads, now live in 31 European markets, to reach travellers during the planning phase before a hotel s...

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hospitalitynet.org /1 month ago

The Hotel AI Readiness Guide

A practical guide covering AI readiness essentials for hotels, including data governance, content accuracy, direct booking strategy, and the emerging role of Model Context Protocol...

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hoteldive.com /4 weeks ago

Lodging Lowdown: Highgate names new CMO, Ritz-Carlton Residences in Florida tops out

Plus, BWH Hotels debuted an @HOME property in Georgia, marking the extended stay flag’s first location in the state.

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hospitalitynet.org /1 month ago

How hotels win visibility, direct bookings & profitable growth in an AI-driven travel era

A best-practice guide covering SEO, generative engine optimization, paid media, and AI strategy to help hotels capture direct bookings as zero-click search and AI platforms reshape...

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hospitalitynet.org /2 days ago

Your hotel website is your 24/7 salesperson. Would you hire it?

A practical checklist for hoteliers to audit their website like a salesperson, covering page speed, booking paths, content accuracy, and personalization to drive direct bookings ov...

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hospitalitynet.org /1 month ago

The Definition of Luxury Hotel Marketing is Incomplete

The author argues luxury hotel marketing is structurally incomplete, focusing too heavily on conversion while neglecting upstream demand origin, leaving properties dependent on OTA...

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hospitalitynet.org /1 month ago

Digital marketing decoded: Budgeting 101

A downloadable guide for hotel marketers on building a 2027 digital marketing budget using cost of acquisition, ROAS benchmarks, and direct vs. OTA net revenue comparisons.

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hospitalitynet.org /1 week ago

Is hotel marketing ready for its next evolution?

Revinate CMO Karen Stephens and EMEA MD Dylan Cole discuss moving from CRM and CDP to real-time data activation to drive repeat direct bookings and reduce OTA dependency.

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hospitalitynet.org /1 month ago

Order Me a Room

Fliggy's open-source "flyai" travel skill is now live in Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO and Honor native skill stores, enabling AI-driven bookings without a user ever opening the Fliggy app,...

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hospitalitynet.org /1 month ago

When the Host Needs Hosting: Amelia Dimoldenberg Takes the Guest Seat with IHG Hotels & Resorts

IHG Hotels & Resorts partners with Chicken Shop Date creator Amelia Dimoldenberg for a global social campaign, featuring a loyalty-exclusive hotel package available at three U....

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hospitalitynet.org /2 weeks ago

From Heritage Buildings to Hotel Stays, Meet the Salvaged Stay

Hotels.com's Unpack '26 report spotlights "Salvaged Stays," hotels in repurposed historic buildings, with top examples seeing search growth of up to 194% year over year.

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hospitalitynet.org /1 month ago

Hotel vs Lodge: What's the difference? Your comparison guide

A practical comparison of hotels and lodges covering property types, guest expectations, and management strategies to help operators understand how distinctions affect pricing, dis...

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hospitalitynet.org /1 month ago

Hilton Wires Into Google, ChatGPT and Claude, Airbnb Brings 650 Million Accounts to Hotels, Bad Records Keep You Out of...

Monday brought the first brand-side answer to Friday's Google launch. Hilton put an AI Planner on its own site and app, joined Google's AI Mode with Honors Points redemption, added...

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hospitalitynet.org /2 days ago

How to use flight search data to forecast hotel demand

Lighthouse research across 40 destinations confirms flight searches predict occupancy 9-10 weeks out and hotel searches 4-5 weeks out, with strongest signals at leisure and event d...

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hospitalitynet.org /1 month ago

Sallés Hotels × Dayuse: Turning Empty Daytime Hours into Pure-Margin Revenue

Sallés Hotels deployed Dayuse across six Spanish properties on a commission-only model, generating hundreds of extra bookings monthly from local leisure guests and international tr...

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hospitalitynet.org /1 month ago

Venuelocity Elevates Hotel Sales with the Launch of vProposal, a Design-Forward, Integrated Proposal Platform

Venuelocity launched vProposal, a mobile-optimized proposal platform that integrates with CRM and catering systems to help hotel sales teams create visual, data-synced group sales...

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taipeitimes.com /1 week ago

Business travel pumping up guest numbers: hotelier

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hospitalitynet.org /5 days ago

Hotel distribution in 2026: Google still sends the guest

Google's AI Mode now books hotels through 10 major chains and OTAs in the US, while independent hotels lost ad visibility after Google's price-feed mandate ended September 30.

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hospitalitynet.org /2 weeks ago

You Sell the Room, the Channel Takes the Upsell, Put AI on the P&L Not the Slide Deck, Madrid's F1 Debut Left Hotel...

Monday opened with hospitality.today on OTAs and AI agents capturing upsell margin using guest data before hotels communicate, Pertlink's framework for moving AI cost from hours-sa...

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wineindustryadvisor.com /1 month ago

Beyond the Hotel Playbook: What Hilton, Marriott and Accor’s Ad Wars Mean for Wine Tourism

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hospitalitynet.org /1 month ago

Not Done Weekly is Back! - The OTA Duopoly Just Got Company.

Airbnb's Hotels team leaders detail 650M users, 90% direct demand, and hotel nights growing 3x faster than homes, raising real questions about OTA dependency for independent hotels...

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hospitalitynet.org /5 days ago

As AI Assistants Reshape Travel Discovery, AI Hospitality Alliance Releases Comprehensive Hotel AI Visibility Guide

AIHA has released a free Hotel AI Visibility guide covering KPIs, self-assessments, and AEO strategy to help hotels control how AI assistants represent their properties to traveler...

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