Regulators are intensifying oversight of artificial intelligence in hotels, focusing on guest data practices, algorithmic transparency, and fairness in travel discovery. This shift follows the rapid ...

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Keawakapu Beach in South Maui is shown on July 10. Both hotel occupancy and visitor arrival numbers at the start of the summer travel season have been behind last year’s numbers, reports show. The ...

If you’re a hotel developer waiting for the next travel boom to tell you where to build, you’re already late. Some of the next best markets will look like “non-destinations,” but deliver durable ...

Comparitech, in collaboration with security researcher Bob Diachenko, found an unsecured database containing data belonging to the hotel franchise on July 2, 2019, after the database was indexed by ...

On July 11, 2023, Choice Hotels International, the parent company of Radisson Hotels Americas, confirmed that Radisson guest information was leaked related to the MOVEit vulnerability. Choice Hotels ...

An unsecured database that exposed the security logs -- and therefore potential cybersecurity weaknesses -- of major hotels including Marriott locations has been uncovered by researchers. VpnMentor ...

(The Center Square) – Cities that host the NFL Draft have seen small increases in hotel revenue in recent years but those gains are far smaller than what is claimed by teams, the National Football ...

Prestige Software, a provider of hotel reservation software, has reportedly exposed sensitive data belonging to millions of travelers in a misconfigured Amazon Web Services S3 bucket. The incident ...

Regulators are intensifying scrutiny of AI use in hotels, focusing on guest data handling, algorithmic recommendations, and transparency under laws like the EU AI Act and GDPR. The move comes as AI ...