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The future of wellness economy: five dimensions shaping hotel strategy

🏨 Nov 26, 2025—Hotels globally are redefining experiences and revenue models as wellness becomes a core guest expectation. McKinsey highlights five dimensions shaping the wellness economy: physical health, mental balance, appearance, sleep quality, and nutrition. Guests prefer personalized wellness options and are willing to pay more for tailored services. Technology, including wearables and AI, enhances these offerings. Wellness integration into everyday hotel experiences can boost loyalty, repeat business, and create new revenue streams.
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The new speed of marketing

📈 Nov 26, 2025: Modern marketing thrives on agility and trust over long-term planning. Brands succeed by creating flexible systems that quickly respond to cultural shifts. Key strategies include focusing on niche audiences, insider-informed teams, and daily media-style workflows, prioritizing speed over polish. Brands should engage with cultural touchpoints that align with their values for deeper connections, as authenticity and trust build lasting brand value. Full article: [Adweek](https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/the-new-speed-of-marketing/).
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Building trust in agentic AI travel tools

🗺 Nov 26, 2025: Major travel platforms like Google, Expedia, Priceline, and Kayak are investing in autonomous AI for trip booking, but only 2-12% of travelers trust AI to make independent decisions due to privacy concerns and AI inaccuracies. Over 50% of consumers worry about data use, limiting readiness to share payment details with travel bots. As AI technology progresses, consumer comfort and trust will dictate the pace of adoption in the next five years.
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Reclaiming the core of hotel technology

💻 Nov 26, 2025, the IDC MarketScape highlighted a paradigm shift in property management systems (PMS) within hotels. Who? Hotels, What? PMS evolution with AI, automation, and data strategies. How? By integrating operational, guest, and financial data, supporting varied models, and using composable architectures. Why? To enhance connected systems like CRM and revenue management. Where? Within hotel ecosystems. The PMS is now central, driving efficiencies and strategic decisions through intelligence and automation.
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Google begins showing ads in AI search results

💸 Nov 26, 2025: Google tests ads in AI Mode search responses, placing sponsored results in AI-generated answer cards. Consumer behavior shifts, with a 752% increase in AI-driven traffic to ecommerce sites. Grocery, furniture, and apparel sectors see significant AI visibility growth, marking AI's new role in holiday shopping. Advertisers face a competitive 2026 landscape as OpenAI plans an ad-supported rollout. Google explores new UI elements to enhance AI Mode, with potential for autonomous purchasing in the future.
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Google’s pretraining edge puts pressure on OpenAI

💻 Nov 26, 2025, Google unveils Gemini 3, sparking concern at OpenAI. Internal memos reveal OpenAI's fears of economic headwinds and losing their competitive edge. Google’s model outpaces OpenAI by mastering pre-training efficiency, crucial for superior AI model performance. The AI landscape could shift, favoring companies like Google with robust infrastructure and proprietary tech. The evolving focus on smart pre-training over sheer scale may redefine market dynamics, challenging OpenAI's previous leadership.
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Banyan Group Unveils the Final and Most Spectacular Phase of the Residences at Garrya Phuket

🏡 Banyan Group has launched the final phase of The Residences at Garrya Phuket at Laguna Phuket, featuring two- and three-bedroom beachfront penthouses with private rooftop pools. Located 30 minutes from Phuket International Airport, these properties offer panoramic views and are priced from THB 67.3M (USD 2.08M) for penthouses and THB 15.4M (USD 476K) for one-bedroom apartments. Owners enjoy wellness amenities, rental returns, and membership benefits, including access to RAVA Beach Club.
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Siari, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, Invites Discovery Along Mexico’s Emerald Coast in Riviera Nayarit

🌴 Siari, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, opens in Riviera Nayarit within a 920-acre enclave called Nauka, featuring 91 nature-framed sanctuaries. Designed by Bernardi + Peschard Arquitectura, it offers beachfront villas up to 2,873 sq ft and 34 private residences along 4.3 miles of coastline. Chef David Castro Hussong leads five dining venues, and the 28,000 sq ft Há Yeka wellness center offers ancient and modern therapies. From December 20, 2025, United Airlines will fly to nearby Tepic from Houston.
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MICE + hoteliers: it’s time to capitalize on London as a center of knowledge

📅 London’s MICE market is thriving in 2025, driven by corporate events, which make up 48% of the global MICE market. London's strategic location contributed to almost half of the UK's 42.5 million overseas visitors in 2024. Training and Education is the fastest-growing segment, with a 5% increase in training expenditure to $102.8 billion in 2024-2025. Hoteliers should focus on tech-enabled spaces and partnerships with educational bodies to leverage MICE opportunities.
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Hyatt Place Butwal Celebrates Official Opening

🏨 Hyatt Place Butwal, Nepal, opened as the third Hyatt hotel in the country. The hotel features 109 guestrooms, including a 1,560 sq ft Presidential Suite. Guests enjoy free Wi-Fi, breakfast, and a 24/7 market. Facilities include a ballroom for 150 guests, an outdoor pool, and a fitness center. Led by General Manager Tushar Nagar and Director of Sales Partha Banerjee, the hotel caters to both business and leisure travelers.
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