Innovation

🏠 In Aberdeen, South Dakota, My Place Hotels of America introduced My Place 3.0, featuring new product enhancements and a prototype. The updated design offers flexibility with roofing and exterior finishes adaptable to preferences and regulations. The four-story, 71-unit prototype was developed considering feedback from stakeholders and analytics, focusing on franchisee benefits. Installations of the prototype are expected to begin in 2025. My Place continues to offer a 87-unit and a 64-unit prototype with upgrades. The My Place Business Suite, a new 470 square feet room option for business travelers or small families, is set to boost average daily rates (ADR) and contribute to yield management.

💃 The Eastern & Orient Express, a Belmond Train, features the new Dior Spa, enhancing luxury travel in Southeast Asia. Dior's previous Belmond collaborations were on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express and the Royal Scotsman. The train's refurbished Art Déco design includes a spa carriage with green and gold tones. Offering two itineraries, "Essence of Malaysia, The West Coast" from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur and "Wild Malaysia, The East Coast" from Singapore northward, the spa harmonizes with the region's landscapes, incorporating Dior's green toile de Jouy design. This partnership redefines luxury travel by focusing on transformative wellness experiences.

📄 Obvlo has revolutionized dynamic hotel destination guide creation, achieving a record completion time of just 60 minutes. This advancement is due to Obvlo's self-developed AI tools, which reduced content production time from two weeks to an hour over the past year. Obvlo's platform offers personalized guides tailored to over 100 guest archetypes, continuously updated content, and promotes local independent businesses. It enables hotels to generate revenue through targeted remarketing and personalized in-house offers, and integrates with Google Analytics for valuable insights. CEO Callum McPherson emphasizes the consistent freshness and quality of their content, with daily updates to about 5-10% of their dynamic content, ensuring information is never outdated.

📰 Obvlo has revolutionized dynamic hotel destination guides by reducing the creation time from two weeks to 60 minutes. Using AI tools, the platform offers in-depth, highly personalized and continuously updated content for any destination globally. Obvlo tailors recommendations to over 100 guest archetypes, taking into account weather, time, and preferences while promoting local businesses. The innovation benefits hotels by increasing revenue and loyalty through targeted remarketing and personalized offers, seamlessly integrating with Google Analytics and hotel apps. CEO Callum McPherson highlights the fresh, high-quality content that enhances the guest experience.

📈 Obvlo revolutionizes hotel industry by reducing dynamic local guide creation time from two weeks to 60 minutes, employing AI to ensure up-to-date, personalized content. The platform caters to over 100 guest archetypes, integrates with third-party guides, and supports hotels with revenue-generating data insights for remarketing and upselling. Daily, 5-10% of content is refreshed, eliminating outdated information. This innovation is a boon for both large chains and smaller hotels, enhancing guest experiences and loyalty.

📖 Obvlo now creates the world's fastest dynamic hotel destination guides in just 60 minutes, a significant reduction from the previous two weeks, thanks to its proprietary AI tools. The content is personalized, continually refreshed, and caters to over 100 guest archetypes, enhancing the guest experience and hotel revenues. Daily updates ensure 5-10% of content remains current, supporting local businesses and enabling hotels to generate targeted offers and insights through integration with Google Analytics.

🏠 DIAMO helps increase property revenues by 35% while decreasing Online Travel Agency (OTA) commissions by promoting 70% direct bookings. They offer an AI-powered dynamic pricing system and manage digital marketing strategies, allowing property owners to focus on broader operational aspects. DIAMO supports a range of hospitality establishments worldwide, including independent hotels, B&Bs, and hotel groups. Their expertise has led to significant gross revenue increases for clients: +517% in Colorado (22 rooms), +170% in Massachusetts (14 rooms), +126% in Michigan (42 rooms), and +116% in California (14 rooms).