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🏛 In Paris, France, Influence Society announces its inaugural issue of "Societies," a 30-page quarterly report providing design and tech inspiration for exceptional hospitality. This creative agency merges elegance, advanced technology, and exceptional hospitality, encouraging hoteliers to innovate and stay ahead. "Societies" dives into AI, NFTs, luxury experiences, and interior design trends to shape the hospitality industry's future. For more information on this visionary content, download the first edition at their website.

🏨 European hotels increased in value by 2% in 2024 despite geopolitical tensions and climate change challenges. The growth attributes to lower interest rates, moderate RevPAR growth, and high international travel demand. South Europe leads with a near-complete recovery to pre-crisis values, while Eastern Europe shows the second-highest growth. Athens tops the list with an 11.8% increase, followed by Lisbon, Madrid, and Edinburgh with 6-8%. Munich (+4.8%), Frankfurt (+3.4%), Berlin (+2.8%), and Hamburg (+0.9%) benefit from trade fairs and business tourism. Paris remains Europe's most expensive city, while the European hotel industry anticipates 50 million more overnight stays in 2024 compared to the previous year, signaling strong tourism demand.

🏨 Aston Rubi City Suites offers 179 apartment-style rooms, each featuring a fully equipped kitchen with modern appliances, cooking and dining utensils. Options include Standard suites with a private bathroom and extra toilet; Superior suites with a sofa bed and two bathrooms; Deluxe one-bedroom suites with a studio space, large living area, two bathrooms, and a modern kitchen; and a Deluxe two-bedroom suite for up to four people. The Premier two-bedroom Loft boasts a unique two-level layout, private terrace with jacuzzi, and two bathrooms plus a guest toilet.

🏖️ Plages.fr, operating in France since 2024, highlights the Côte d'Azur as the area with the highest digitalization rate. The typical digitalized beach tourist in France is 25-40 years old, an employee who books in the evening, spends an average of 44 euros, and stays for about 5 days. By 2030, around 50% of French beach establishments will use reservation management systems and 40% will manage online bookings. As of the first quarter of 2025, Plages.fr has registered 50 new French establishments for the upcoming season, bringing the total to 100 on the platform. The French market is currently adopting restaurant management software tailored to beach service providers, and is expected to follow Italy's lead in using specialized beach management software integrated with hospitality services.

🏨 Accor hosted a career and employment forum for young people in Paris, with over 550 participants. On March 13, 2024, during the Tourism Jobs Week, the event took place at the Novotel Paris Centre Tour Eiffel, focusing on the hotel industry training for middle school, high school, and college students. The forum featured professional conferences, job workshops, and a recruitment space offering 230 positions across 21 Accor hotels in Île-de-France. A partnership with the Île-de-France school district was signed to enhance professional integration for students pursuing CAP, Bac Pro, and BTS, providing career awareness, preparatory tools, and post-study employment support.

🏡 Único Hotels to launch a luxury boutique hotel in Asturies by 2028, transforming the historic Palacio Jardón in Viavélez, built between 1914-1917, into a 24-room accommodation spanning 16,000 m². Led by architect Joaquín Noval, the project includes renovating the main building and annexes, adding an outdoor spa, glass greenhouse, sports tracks, sustainable gardens, a photovoltaic energy system, and a water recycling program aligned with We Care's environmental commitments. Asturies is experiencing a tourism boom bolstered by infrastructure enhancements and natural and cultural heritage valorization.

🎀 Paris Fashion Week, an annual must-attend event for fashion aficionados, transforms Paris' streets and landmarks into runways, boosting the city's hotel industry, particularly its luxury segment. MKG Consulting, specializing in press, sector studies, events, and training, previews the hospitality trends for 2025. While the International Agricultural Show reported modest hotel performance, Parisian hotels thrive during Fashion Week.

📈 At the Future Of Travel Distribution (FTD25), Antoine Walter of Expedia Group and Julien Lechat of Meta discussed AI in the travel industry. Meta has invested $100 billion in AI over 4 years and promotes open-source AI like LLama, used by 700 million users. Expedia's AI, Romie, assists travelers in planning and on-site experiences in the US. An Expedia study in 2023 found travelers spend over 5 hours researching trips 45 days prior. Expedia also reported preventing over $2 billion in fraud in 2024. AI is blending with marketplaces, creating competitive, data-driven, and personalized experiences in travel, a $2.3 trillion market with 15% covered by OTAs.

💸 Revenue maximization refers to leveraging all opportunities to attain full income potential in the hospitality industry, beyond just room sales. The 360-degree strategic vision implies considering each space, service, and customer interaction as a revenue-generating opportunity. Key stats show that using Atomize, a Mews solution, led to up to a 35% increase in RevPAR and a 37% rise in ADR, with occupancy rates also growing. Implementing this approach, hotels within the Mews ecosystem saw a 290% ROI over 3 years, a 31% reduction in manual errors, a 24% efficiency gain for front desk staff, and a 7.3% ADR growth. Revenue management is evolving towards an integrated, data-driven system relying on technological tools.