Beyond Revenue: The 2026 Strategic Hospitality Pricing Guid

Stop reacting and start leading in an increasingly volatile market. This updated 2026 report reveals how independent hotels can transform Decision Intelligence into a 15–30% revenue increase. Learn why a dynamic cost-base is non-negotiable for protecting your margins against rising operational costs. We explore the shift from static rate sheets to AI-driven agility, ensuring your prices adapt to demand in real-time. Discover the essential building blocks—from data hygiene to advanced forecasting—needed to future-proof your profitability. Secure your competitive edge with the next generation of hospitality pricing.

AI in Hospitality: Why the Real Opportunity Lies During the Stay

This whitepaper explains why most hotels use AI before arrival, but not during the stay where service pressure is highest. It shows the gap between guest openness to AI and hotel hesitation to use it in real time. The paper outlines three practical pillars to help hotels turn AI from pilots into everyday operations without losing the human touch.

Hotel Pricing in 2025: How Dynamic & Data-Driven Pricing Boosts Revenue

Hotels face more complexity than ever in 2025 — rising costs, unpredictable demand, and increasing market transparency make traditional pricing strategies ineffective. This report explains why a solid cost-based room rate calculation is the essential foundation for profitable pricing and how automated dynamic pricing can unlock measurable revenue gains of up to 30%. Using recent research and a real case example, it shows how hotels can react faster to demand shifts, avoid underpricing, and achieve more stable revenue performance. It also highlights the crucial role of data quality and forecasting in building a future-proof pricing strategy.

Hospitality Holiday Season 2025

The APAC and EMEA hospitality markets are entering a peak holiday season driven by New Year, Christmas, and Lunar New Year travel. Exely’s data— covering OTA reservations and direct bookings processed through the Exely Booking Engine—shows strong performance momentum across both regions as we move into late 2025. This report highlights key seasonal trends and provides actionable insights to help hoteliers maximize demand and optimize revenue during this high-impact period.

Hotel Website Messaging Design Guide

Discover how to turn your hotel website into a powerful first impression. This design guide by The Hotels Network walks you through the essentials of visual storytelling, personalization, and usability, and helps you craft messages that captivate and convert. From color and typography to AI-powered templates and accessibility, learn how to align every detail with your brand while guiding guests smoothly from browsing to booking. Create stunning, on-brand designs that elevate your direct channel strategy and boost conversions.

Your Step-by-Step Guide to Smarter Hotel Revenue

Stop leaving your revenue to luck. This step-by-step guide breaks down hotel revenue management into clear, actionable moves that boost profit and confidence. Learn how to forecast smarter, price strategically, and win budget season with data-driven decisions. It’s time to stop guessing — and start growing.

Future Forecast: Hospitality Tech Predictions for 2026

As hospitality grows more complex, hotel operators and owners face mounting pressure to streamline operations, maximize profitability, and deliver exceptional guest experiences—all while navigating economic uncertainty and an evolving technology landscape. This piece explores where the industry is heading, spotlighting shifts like the simplification and unification of fragmented tech stacks, the convergence of commercial strategies across revenue, marketing, and sales, and the growing emphasis on resiliency—from eco-driven sustainability efforts to ensuring workforce stability. With insights from technology leaders and hospitality providers, we’re shining a light on what needs to be done to thrive in the years to come.

How will Technology Transform Travel in the Next Decade?

If you think back to your last trip, whether for business or pleasure, it’s easy to think of it as a single ‘journey’. Getting from A to B. But throughout one journey there is a series of micro-journeys with technology at the core. This is the job Amadeus has orchestrated for over three decades. Together with our partners and customers, we’ve come together as a global industry aiming to deliver the best experience for travelers with the least friction possible.

Event Staffing Schedule

Our event staffing schedule template provides a clear and easy way to map out roles, assign shifts, and view everyone's availability at a glance. Spend less time wrestling with details and more time ensuring your team is prepped and ready for a smooth event.

Summer 2025 Hotel Guest Experience Snapshot

Discover what drove guest satisfaction, where operational gaps showed up, and what hoteliers from Rome to Stockholm can do to improve reviews.

Stop Playing Dice This Budget Season: Make Smart Investments

This white paper helps hoteliers move beyond guesswork in budgeting. It explains why ORM tools, social media, and review platforms fail to provide reliable investment guidance, and why structured guest data is the only solid foundation. With standardized questionnaires linked to a Central Guest Profile, hotels can identify profitable segments, allocate budgets wisely, and reduce risks. Beyond smarter investments, this approach boosts direct bookings, enhances guest profiles, supports complaint management, and ensures data compliance. The result: higher revenues, stronger guest loyalty, and long-term profitability.

Reimagining the Role of Travel Media in Building Luxury and Lifestyle Brands

Travelers who seek out luxury and lifestyle hotels are a unique customer segment, and there’s a small margin to meet these customers’ lofty expectations. In a new survey from Skift and Curacity, 89 percent of luxury travelers said that they were more likely to book a high-end hotel if they were already familiar with its brand.

Event Sales Metrics Cheat Sheet

Ready to increase your venue’s event bookings? Our cheat sheet reveals the must-know sales metrics to help you rethink your strategy and win more clients.

Partnering with Start-Ups in Hospitality IT

Hotel tech startups are popping up everywhere - promising innovation, speed, and sleek design. Many of them look like the next big thing. But behind the polished surface, the real questions begin: Is the software truly ready for hotel operations, can it integrate seamlessly into your tech stack, how secure is your guest data - really, what happens if the startup runs out of funding? This whitepaper answers these questions, and even more - concise, practical, and easy to follow.

The Signals behind Hotel AI Recommendations

A new era of AI-assisted travel planning has begun. It’s more personalized, more contextual, and increasingly action-oriented. Hotels that fail to adapt risk losing visibility and bookings, while those that act early stand to gain a meaningful competitive advantage.

Upselling Success: How Hotels Can Use Data to Personalize Upsells, Improve the Guest Experience, & Maximize Revenue

93% of hotel guests have purchased an ancillary, yet upselling is still underused across the industry. This report explores what guests actually want, when they're most likely to convert, and how loyalty members behave differently. Based on a survey of 2,000 travelers across six countries, it offers clear, data-backed takeaways for driving more revenue without compromising the guest experience. Download the report to see where the real upsell opportunities are.