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Read → A guest asking for something is the easy part. FCS1 IRGS, the new guest-facing module of FCS1, is built for the hard part: getting each request to the team that fulfils it, and tracking it until it closes.
Read → A Hospitality Net analysis proposes three hotel models, technocentric, hybrid and anthropocentric, and warns that automated service could be what kills the premium rate.
Read → Roomiy Finance's CEO wants to push direct booking and hand more revenue back to hotel owners. It is the kind of bet independent hotels have been waiting for.
Read → AIHA publishes a free guide that links agentic AI protocols to more than 100 hospitality use cases, with a workbook for technical and business teams.
Read → Smart Travel News flags the real bottleneck in corporate event management: fragmented tools. Consolidating sign-up, contracts, access control and hotel ops in one agile platform is where the margin lives.
Read → Pratt Institute's ninth Interior Provocations symposium tackles AI authorship, manufactured atmospheres and material deception in hospitality design.
Read → An op-ed on Hospitality Net argues that hotels have reduced staff to button-pushers for software, and that AI should give the human back the human part of hospitality.
Read → Google merges Hotel Ads into an AI campaign, WTTC sets eight Europe priorities, and Mews asks where the hours AI saves in hotels actually go.
Read → Independent hotels gain a commission-free discovery window through AI tools, but the booking still slips to the OTA when the website fails to convert.
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