Innovation

💻 Noida, 30th October 2025: RateGain partners with FLYR Hospitality to globally offer AI-powered SaaS products, including Navigator. This alliance provides real-time rate intelligence and insights for hotels worldwide. RateGain serves 3,200+ customers across 100+ countries, collaborating with top hotel chains and travel agents. FLYR focuses on AI-driven revenue management. This collaboration enhances pricing decisions and operational efficiency in the hospitality sector. Andrew Rubinacci and Toby March are key spokespeople.

📈 Oct 30, 2025: The Amadeus *Hospitality Demand Generation Playbook* emphasizes aligning marketing, sales, and revenue teams to build sustainable demand. It introduces a five-stage framework guiding hotels from market understanding to post-stay loyalty. Data-driven insights, enhanced digital strategies, and AI automation are key to success. Focus on direct bookings and strategic use of travel agent channels enhances profitability. The playbook stresses creating a cycle of awareness, engagement, and loyalty beyond mere room filling.

📈 In 2025, Minneapolis, Minnesota: EOS Hospitality, managing 60 U.S. properties, partners with IDeaS for a three-year tech upgrade. EOS will migrate 50 properties to the IDeaS G3 Revenue Management System, enhancing scalability and performance insight. Tools like Optix and RevPlan will offer real-time data and financial forecasting. Sanjay Nagalia of IDeaS emphasizes strategic growth, while EOS’s Ernest Lee highlights increased collaboration and productivity. EOS aims for commercial success with this tech transition.

🌐 DALLAS, Texas—Mews announced the acquisition of US-based AI company DataChat to enhance its hospitality systems. DataChat’s platform enables natural language interaction with business data, generating insights and workflows without coding. This acquisition aims to accelerate the development of autonomous and semi-autonomous agents within Mews, covering reservations, operations, and guest experiences. Richard Valtr, Mews founder, emphasized the move towards intelligent platforms, while Viken Eldemir, DataChat CEO, highlighted the potential for increased personalization in hospitality.

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💻 Josiah shares insights into leveraging technology in the hospitality industry, emphasizing the importance of AI and tech adoption to improve efficiency and financial outcomes. Actabl, his company, focuses on empowering hospitality workers through tech innovation. Josiah highlights the value of educating users and ensuring tech solutions drive profits, with gross operating profit being a key metric. He stresses the need for digitization and effective process implementation to fully harness AI's potential in hospitality.

🎓 NYU School of Professional Studies (NYU SPS) collaborates with the AHLA Foundation to offer credits toward an Associate of Applied Science (AAS) in Hospitality Management. Apprenticeship participants can earn up to 27 of the required 60 credits. This partnership aids career advancement in the hospitality sector by bridging work experience with academic achievement, providing a pathway to job readiness or further study.