International Luxury Hotel Association

Orlando – October 30, 2026 -- Sam Nazarian, founder, chairman and CEO of sbe Entertainment Group, will open the second day of INSPIRE 2026 on December 16 with a session on "luxury longevity hospitality" at the JW Marriott Orlando Bonnet Creek Resort & Spa.

Nazarian takes the Encore Summit Stage on December 16

The International Luxury Hotel Association (ILHA) announced that Nazarian, who also founded The Estate, will hold an in-person conversation with ILHA Co-founder Jonathan Edelheit. The session is titled "Longevity: The Next Frontier of Luxury."

The agenda has three points: why longevity is the new luxury, how to extend the guest relationship beyond the stay through residential real estate and urban longevity clubs, and where owners and investors see opportunity in the longevity economy.

Orlando, Fla. – September 18, 2026 -- The International Luxury Hotel Association (ILHA) has confirmed new sessions for INSPIRE 2026, its flagship luxury hospitality conference set for December 15-17 at the JW Marriott Bonnet Creek Resort & Spa in Orlando.

Executives from Nobu, Microsoft and Honeywell will address AI's actual return on investment

Rodney Linville, Global Head of Information Technology at Nobu Hospitality, will join Shane O'Flaherty, Global Director of Travel, Transportation and Hospitality at Microsoft, and Neha Jaitpal, Global General Manager of Honeywell's Hospitality Vertical, for a session titled "AI at Scale: Building the Business Case for Hospitality." The panel, moderated by ILHA President Barak Hirschowitz, will examine where AI deployments are delivering measurable returns versus where adoption has stalled, and what operators need to move projects from pilot programs to full-scale rollout across teams.