The call goes out from the desk to a suite: what time would the guest like housekeeping service. A routine call, made for the operation’s benefit. The guest thanks the caller, then explains she cannot give a time — her husband is on a business call and she does not know when it ends. She […]
As travel and hospitality organizations adapt to ongoing cost pressures, a new kind of risk is emerging: silence that could signal unreported misconduct. From airline crews to hotel operators, the hospitality workforce is more fragmented than ever. While this flexible structure drives efficiency, it may also weaken the informal checks that often support ethical behavior. […]
Hotels have spent decades refining how they think about room inventory. Occupancy, ADR, RevPAR: the metrics are well understood, the benchmarks are established, and the systems that track them are built into how a property is managed. Event and function spaces sitting alongside those rooms are a different story. For many hotels, performance at […]
DENVER — June 9, 2026 — Lighthouse, the Commercial Operating Platform for the travel and hospitality industry, today launched Ernest, an AI built to be the newest member of every commercial team. Ernest bridges the gap between today’s powerful frontier AI models and the specific data, systems and decisions at the core of each hotel’s strategy. […]
Every few years, the travel industry declares the death of another digital channel. First, OTAs were supposed to destroy direct booking. Then apps were meant to replace websites. More recently, super apps were going to absorb the entire customer journey. Now the latest prediction is that agentic AI will make hotel websites and apps redundant […]
