Hospitality, Travel & Events

Miami Gardens, Fla. – September 07, 2026 -- South Florida Motorsports (SFM) and Hard Rock International have signed a new multi-year naming rights agreement that renames the race the FORMULA 1 HARD ROCK MIAMI GRAND PRIX, effective from the 2027 edition. The event is contracted to remain on the Formula 1 calendar through 2041.

Hard Rock expands from founding sponsor to full title partner

Hard Rock joined the Miami race as an original Founding Partner at its 2022 launch and has held naming rights to Hard Rock Stadium, home of the NFL's Miami Dolphins, since 2016. The stadium anchors the Miami International Autodrome, a 19-turn, 3.36-mile circuit that hosts the race. Under the new deal, Hard Rock branding will appear on the official event title, logo, podium, the Fan Fest and trackside signage throughout the venue for the 2027 race, with a date still to be announced.

Denver – September 07, 2026 -- AirDNA has launched Adapt, an AI-native revenue management system for short-term rental (STR) hosts and property managers, drawing on data from 15 million listings the company tracks to set nightly rates and minimum stays.

More than 14,000 listings tested Adapt before public launch

The tool was developed after feedback from thousands of STR hosts identified a recurring problem: operators often cannot tell whether their pricing is working or why a rate changed. AirDNA connected more than 14,000 listings to Adapt during private and public betas to refine the product.

London – September 06, 2026 -- 50 Best has published its extended ranking of hotels placed No.51 to No.100, covering 23 territories and 40 cities ahead of the main World's 50 Best Hotels 2026 ceremony set for Paris on September 15. The expanded list includes 10 independent properties and precedes the top-50 announcement broadcast live on 50 Best's YouTube channel at 20:00 Paris time.

Asia dominates with 20 ranked properties, led by Japan's seven entries

Japan places Park Hyatt Tokyo at No.53, Hotel The Mitsui in Kyoto at No.79, and Waldorf Astoria Osaka at No.89. Mainland China enters the list with two hotels: Mandarin Oriental Shenzhen at No.90 and The Peninsula Shanghai at No.99.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING — July 03, 2026 — The Hopper Hotel St. Josef in Cologne has completed a redesign covering all 65 guest rooms and parts of its public areas, including the library and lobby. The project was carried out by LFPI Hospitality Group, which has operated the hotel since 2022 inside a heritage-protected building dating to 1891. LFPI has partnered with BWH Hotels under the WorldHotels Crafted brand since 2025, positioning the Cologne property within a wider collection of independently managed hotels. The redesign focused on preserving existing architectural elements while introducing new materials intended to improve guest comfort.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING -- June 16, 2026 -- IHG Hotels & Resorts has signed a management agreement with Circle View Estate Private Ltd to develop voco Udaipur, a 140-key newbuild hotel scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2029. The agreement extends IHG's premium voco brand into one of India's most established leisure markets, adding to the company's growing footprint in Rajasthan. For Circle View Estate, partnering with IHG brings access to global brand systems, commercial expertise and a guest proposition built around individual character rather than uniform branding. The deal adds another premium signing to IHG's expansion across high-demand Indian destinations.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - April 14, 2026 - Fox World Travel has entered a partnership with AI travel optimization platform Oversee to deploy HotelSaver, the vendor's hotel price assurance and program management solution, as part of a broader strategy to sharpen hotel spend control. The agreement brings automated post-booking reshopping, real-time negotiated rate auditing, and program-level spend insights into Fox World Travel's managed travel workflow. For travel management companies, hotel overspend and rate leakage remain persistent cost drivers, making automated contract enforcement and price assurance increasingly central to competitive program management. The deployment aligns with a growing TMC trend toward embedding AI-driven post-booking optimization as a standard operational layer rather than a discretionary add-on.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - April 14, 2026 - Koelnmesse GmbH posted preliminary sales of approximately €450 million and consolidated net income of approximately €60 million for fiscal year 2025, confirming a strong financial performance for the German trade fair operator. The company hosted around 2.5 million visitors from 214 countries and 43,600 exhibiting companies from 120 nations, while staging 38 events abroad during the year. These results reflect growing commercial traction from Koelnmesse's internationalisation strategy, which has been accelerating through branded satellite events and market-entry launches across the Middle East, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - April 14, 2026 - Trade registration for the Farnborough International Airshow 2026 (FIA2026) is now open, marking the formal start of the exhibitor and visitor engagement cycle for the global aerospace, defence and space sector. The event runs from 20 to 24 July 2026 at the Show Centre on ETPS Road, Farnborough, UK. Structured around six thematic programme tracks and a series of executive-level summits, FIA2026 is positioned as a primary venue for deal-making, technology showcasing and sector-level policy dialogue. The launch of trade registration opens commercial access approximately 97 days before the show opens.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - April 14, 2026 - Booking Holdings positions itself as the world's leading provider of online travel and related services, operating a portfolio of twelve distinct consumer- and trade-facing brands across the core segments of the global travel market. The group's architecture spans accommodation search, airfare and price comparison, car rental, restaurant reservations, activity booking, and loyalty programs, enabling it to address multiple points in the traveler decision journey from a single corporate structure. That multi-brand model gives the group exposure to both consumer-facing distribution and B2B operator tooling simultaneously, a configuration that distinguishes it from single-brand online travel agencies. The portfolio is supported by sustainability reporting, investor governance resources, and a formal compliance infrastructure.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - April 14, 2026 - Carnival Corporation & plc, operator of a global fleet of more than 90 cruise ships calling at over 800 ports and destinations worldwide, is advancing a dual-track strategy focused on near-term greenhouse gas reduction and deepened engagement with destination leaders in Bermuda and the Caribbean. The company has committed to cutting greenhouse gas intensity by 20% per berth day by 2026 as part of its Path to Net Zero program, which carries a long-term aspiration of net zero emissions from ship operations by 2050. Corporate newsroom activity in March 2026 documented two separate leadership meetings in Bermuda alongside a higher-education hospitality initiative at Florida International University.