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Read → Connectycs and Travelgate analyse on Hosteltur TV the balance of the 2026 peak season in Spain and globally, with Javier Soriano and Fran Montoya.
Read → Trip.com data places Spain second in Europe for Golden Week bookings, behind Italy. Barcelona and Madrid lead, but Malaga, Granada and Seville grow triple digits.
Read → A Hotel Speak piece argues that how your hotel describes itself online now matters as much as how it sells itself.
Read → Sentiment analysis and automatic translation are catching nuance failures across languages and cultures. Hotels that act on those scores blindly are making decisions with bad data.
Read → Direct booking, PMS integration and conversion tools are the three legs of the stool for independent hotels. The rest is marketing noise.
Read → The AI Hospitality Alliance and HEDNA publish a shared map of AI use cases for hotels, a practical framework so operators stop improvising and talk the same language as vendors.
Read → Skift Research's Great Recalibration Index lands on a hard truth for hotels: in an AI-mediated booking world, a generic brand simply does not get recommended.
Read → At Skift Global Forum, almost every travel CEO talked about what they want AI agents to do. Very few explained how those agents will actually plug into their systems.
Read → HFTP gathers 300+ professionals in Reno, travel cards push to erase friction, Milo robots arrive in hospitality and Ballotti puts numbers to hotel AI.
Read → Independent hotels already know which dates are soft. The gap is turning that flagged data into action within hours, not next month.
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