Hospitality News & Insights

• Omni Hotels & Resorts Doubles Meal Donations for Every Stay During Hunger Action Month September 1, 2026
  Omni's Say Goodnight to Hunger campaign doubles meal donations through September, with the program surpassing 30 million meals donated to Feeding America since its 2016 launch.
• Highline Hospitality Partners Extends Analytics Platform with Otelier September 1, 2026
  Highline Hospitality Partners, with 21 hotels and $1.7B in assets under management, will use Otelier to centralize financial and operational data across its portfolio and accelerate its in-house AI development.
• Hotel Tech Companies Need to Spend More Time at Investment Conferences September 1, 2026
  The author argues hotel tech vendors should attend investment conferences like IHIF to understand what drives CEOs and institutional owners, shifting focus from incremental software upgrades to anticipating where entirely new travel demand is emerging.
• Business Travelers Reveal the Lengths They’ll Go to for a Little Downtime September 1, 2026
  Hyatt survey of 2,000 U.S. business travelers finds 90% rely on their hotel room as the only true off-clock space during work trips, used to promote its 700+ property Essentials portfolio and limited-time loyalty bonus point offers.
• Goodbye FIFA, hello conventions: US hotels pivot from group play to group demand as fall nears September 1, 2026
  U.S. hotel performance surged in July driven by FIFA World Cup displacement effects, with non-host cities like Chicago and Detroit posting RevPAR gains of 16-17%, while ADR grew 8.2% above inflation.
• The Chapter 8 — The Payroll the GM Never Read August 31, 2026
  A case study of a Florida hotel where an executive housekeeper paid two ghost employees nearly $470K over four years, exposed only when a new AGM audited I-9 records on her first day.
• Why Hotel CMOs Keep Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic August 31, 2026
  As generative AI platforms capture a growing share of travel research, hotels with inaccurate or inconsistent online records are being excluded from AI-generated recommendations before guests even enter the booking funnel.