Connect CRE · San Antonio · Hospitality
El Tropicano Booking Rooms Before December Reopening
The historic Sitio El Tropicano Hotel in San Antonio is slated to reopen in December. The hotel owners, Trestle Studio, are accepting reservations for guests and events. Opened in 1962, the long-vacant hotel at 110 Le…
Richmond Times-Dispatch · Hospitality
Commercial real estate listings: Pet resort leases 10k square feet in Richmond
Hospitality Net · San Francisco · Hospitality
World Cup Demand Lifts San Francisco RevPAR 80%, Dutch Guests Choose Lower Rates Over Amenities
Friday closes the week on demand and value. World Cup and conference traffic pushed US hotel RevPAR up 9.7% for the week to 20 June, with San Francisco surging 80.5%. A Dutch survey finds three in four guests would ra…
REIT.com · Hospitality
Service Properties Trust CEO Sees Positive Momentum Across Lodging Sector in 2026
Image CEO Chris Bilotto says REIT has strengthened position through asset sales, balance sheet work, capital markets activity.
Hospitality Net · Hospitality
HVS U.S. Market Pulse: June 2026
HVS reports U.S. RevPAR up 4.9% in the trailing 28 days through June 13, maintaining a 3.0% full-year 2026 forecast with upside potential if summer and fall travel trends hold.
PR Newswire · Hospitality
Global Luxury Hotel Brand Signs Letter of Intent with PHAL as Top 10 Group Advances to Proof of Concept
Weeks after its inaugural Top 10 mandate, PHAL, the first Agentic AI Embedded Operator Advisory for Hospitality, adds a globally recognised luxury hotel brand on a signed Letter of Intent, while its Top 10 client adva…
Hospitality Net · Hospitality
Aimbridge Launches Global Sales Office to Pursue Cross-Region Revenue Opportunities for Owners
Aimbridge unifies its U.S., LATAM, EMEA, and All-Inclusive sales teams under one global structure and Salesforce platform to improve cross-region account management and revenue reporting for hotel owners.
Hospitality Net · Hospitality
A hotel can be excellent, bookable, and completely invisible at the same time
As AI reshapes how travelers discover hotels, most properties are invisible to these systems, while measurement tools fail to prove what tech investments actually return at the property level.
Hospitality Net · Hospitality
Rethinking How Hotel Performance Is Evaluated
A PolyU study of 53 GBA hotels finds none achieved efficiency between 2015-2019, and argues standard DEA models overstate performance by ignoring product diversification.
Hospitality Net · Hospitality
How AI is Changing the Recruitment Process – For Better and Worse
An executive search professional argues that over-reliance on AI and ATS tools is undermining senior hiring, and calls for more direct human engagement throughout the recruitment process.
Hospitality Net · Hospitality
Is Your Hotel Measuring the Right AI Prompts?
Kollective argues hotels are tracking too many low-value AI prompts and should focus on destination-contextualised, commercially meaningful queries to influence actual booking behaviour.
Hospitality Net · Hospitality
7 Hidden Costs of Constant Schedule Adjustments in Hotels
Constant schedule adjustments in hotels create compounding hidden costs including management distraction, overtime accumulation, staff disengagement, and declining service consistency.
Hospitality Net · Hospitality
Research: three-quarters of Dutch people trade luxury hotel amenities for a lower room price
A survey of 1,000 Dutch hotel guests finds 75%+ prefer lower room rates over unused amenities, with clean rooms, comfortable beds, and pricing transparency ranking as top priorities.
Hospitality Net · Hospitality
Hilton Advances Travel with Purpose, Showcasing Impact for People, Hotels and Communities in 2025
Hilton's 2025 Travel with Purpose report shows a 50.9% cut in managed hotel carbon intensity and surpassed its 2030 waste goal early, while reaching 2.5M community members across 144 countries.
Hospitality Net · Hospitality
Is your Hotel Website lying to Future Guests?
With 33% of AI responses about hotels containing factual errors and only 16% of hotels appearing in AI recommendations, the article outlines six steps to make hotel websites AI-ready and drive direct bookings.
Hospitality Net · San Francisco · Hospitality
U.S. hotel results for week ending 20 June
U.S. hotel RevPAR rose 9.7% for the week of June 14-20, with San Francisco leading Top 25 Markets on World Cup and Databricks conference demand, pushing RevPAR up 80.5%.
Hospitality Net · Hospitality
Hotel Tech needs to move past Mousetraps
A fractional CMO argues that hotel tech vendors over-invest in product features while underinvesting in marketing, citing data showing winning SaaS companies spend 44% on sales and marketing vs. 31% on product.
Hospitality Net · Hospitality
The Most Undervalued Leadership Skill in Hospitality is Operational Empathy
The author argues that leaders who understand frontline operational realities, not just guest metrics, drive stronger service consistency, employee retention, and long-term guest loyalty.
Hospitality Net · Hospitality
How Multi-Location Hospitality Groups Are Finally Getting Control Over Team Communication
A promotional explainer arguing that hospitality groups should replace personal messaging apps with dedicated work chat tools, citing data ownership risks and multi-property communication gaps.