In the hospitality industry, a hotel's success often hinges on the strength of its leadership team. This team's ability to effectively manage areas like human resources, finance, revenue management, marketing, and operations can make the difference between a thriving business and one that merely exists. Gauging the efficiency through baselining the team can be challenging without a systematic approach.

Lighthouse, the commercial operating system for the travel and hospitality industry, today announced Review Agent, a new feature that brings guest reviews

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUS: Minor Hotels will debut The Wolseley Hotels luxury brand in New York City early 2027.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWorldwide: Private equity firm KSL Capital Partners has united two of its brands, Baillie Lodges and Tierra Hotels, under one luxury brand called Beckons. 
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida—Omni Hotels & Resorts announced the opening of Omni Fort Lauderdale Hotel, the brand’s third flagship in Florida. The 29-story hotel offers panoramic views from nearly every level, and the waterfront property includes 801 guestrooms, over 120,000 square feet of versatile meeting and event space, and six distinct dining venues. The hotel also has a pool deck with city and ocean vistas, a full-service Mokara Spa, and a suite of amenities. The hotel […]
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SAN FRANCISCO, California—Canary Technologies debuted F&B Mobile Ordering, a solution designed to modernize hotel food and beverage operations and capture more revenue. With F&B Mobile Ordering, hotels drive more food and beverage sales by enabling guests to order directly from their own devices. Hotels can update menus, hours, and item availability in real time, and customize add-ons to increase average order value. Properties using F&B Mobile Ordering see 30 percent more food and beverage revenue […]
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The hotel sector continues to benefit from strong demand drivers, particularly in growth markets like Phoenix, while industry discussions at ITB Berlin highlight shifting travel patterns. At the same time, recent disruptions affecting hotels in the United Arab Emirates illustrate how geopolitical and transportation issues can quickly impact travel flows, underscoring the need for operational flexibility and resilience.

This article provides a comprehensive guide on the Global Distribution System (GDS), a tool used by hotels and travel professionals to manage reservations and improve operational efficiency.

India, 12th March 2026: RateGain Travel Technologies Limited (NSE: RATEGAIN), a global leader of AI-powered SaaS solutions for the travel and hospitality industry, and Juspay, a leading global payments technology company, today announced a strategic partnership for RG Pay, RateGain’s embedded financial technology platform for the travel and hospitality ecosystem. This partnership marks a significant step in Juspay and RateGain’s mission to drive higher checkout conversions, unlock localized and flexible payment options, and create seamless, scalable booking experiences for travelers around the world, aligned with the recent launch of RG Pay. As travel businesses scale globally, payments remain a critical operational priority, from supporting diverse local payment methods to managing cross-border transactions efficiently. RG Pay extends these capabilities by integrating Juspay’s cutting-edge payment orchestration stack into the RateGain travel commerce ecosystem. The platform goes beyond checkout to enable a unified transaction lifecycle model, combining payment processing, intelligent routing, orchestration, and affordability solutions within RateGain’s existing distribution and connectivity infrastructure. Through this partnership, travel and hospitality brands gain access to RG Pay a high-performance financial technology. Built for scale and reliability, the platform leverages Juspay’s proven capabilities, which process over 300 million daily transactions and handles more than $1 trillion in annual payment value with 99.999% uptime. Together, with a strong global presence across major travel markets, this partnership will enable seamless, high-performance payment experiences for travel and hospitality brands worldwide. “We are excited to partner with RateGain to demonstrate how high-performance payment technology can co-create a new benchmark for the travel industry,” said Ishan Sharma, Head of Sales and Business Development at Juspay. “RG Pay bridges the gap between institutional scale and the agility of modern technology, ensuring that hotels can offer the same seamless, secure checkout experience that the world’s largest digital enterprises rely on.” “RG Pay marks our evolution from optimizing bookings to enabling the full transaction lifecycle across our hospitality commerce platform,” said Parijat Tiwari, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Distribution, RateGain. “By integrating Juspay’s globally scalable orchestration infrastructure and AI-powered routing intelligence into our ecosystem as a launch Partner, we are strengthening the foundation of payments in travel, aligning discovery, distribution, conversion, and transaction performance within a unified architecture for travel brands worldwide.” Together, RateGain and Juspay aim to strengthen the foundation of global travel payments, enabling travel and hospitality brands to operate with greater agility, resilience, and confidence across markets. About Juspay Juspay is a leading multinational payments technology company, redefining payments for 500+ global enterprises and banks. Founded in 2012, the company processes over 300 million daily transactions, exceeding an annualized total payment volume (TPV) of $1 trillion with 99.999% reliability. Headquartered in Bangalore, India, Juspay is powered by a global network of 1,500+ payment experts operating across San Francisco, Dublin, São Paulo, Singapore and Dubai. To learn more about Juspay, visit: www.juspay.io | media@juspay.in   About RateGain RateGain Travel Technologies Limited is a global provider of AI-powered SaaS solutions for travel and hospitality, working with 13,000+ customers and 700+ partners across 160+ countries. RateGain helps travel and hospitality businesses accelerate revenue generation through acquisition, retention, and wallet share expansion. Today, RateGain is one of the world’s largest processors of electronic transactions, price points, and travel intent data, enabling revenue management, distribution, and marketing teams across hotels, airlines, destination marketing organizations, online travel agents, metasearch companies, package providers, car rentals, travel management companies, cruises, and ferries to drive better business outcomes. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in India, RateGain works with 33 of the Top 40 Hotel Chains, 4 of the Top 5 Airlines, 7 of the Top 10 Car Rental companies, and all leading DMOs, OTAs, and metasearch platforms, including 25 Global Fortune 500 companies, unlocking new revenue every day. Media Contact: Aastha Khurana: media@rategain.com
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India, 10th March 2026: RateGain Travel Technologies Limited (NSE: RATEGAIN), a global leader of AI-powered SaaS solutions for the travel and hospitality industry, today announced the launch of RG Pay, a unified technology infrastructure designed to strengthen revenue realization across the global travel and hospitality ecosystem. As travel brands invest heavily in demand generation and distribution, the financial layer converting booking intent into confirmed, settled revenue has remained fragmented. Checkout friction, settlement complexity, and cross-border inefficiencies continue to erode both conversion and margin. RG Pay addresses this structural gap by embedding fintech innovation directly within RateGain’s travel commerce platform. By extending beyond distribution and pricing intelligence into the transaction layer, RG Pay enables hotels, OTAs, and travel partners to improve conversion reliability, enhance revenue capture, and deliver greater payment flexibility and choice to end travelers. Architected as a modular, ecosystem-driven platform, RG Pay brings together localized payment acceptance, embedded affordability through offers/BNPL/EMI enablement, multi-currency VCC management, and cross-border settlement optimization within a unified travel payments layer. The ecosystem operates through defined partner tiers, aligned to strategic depth, infrastructure capability, and market coverage. “Travel commerce does not end at checkout, it culminates at successful payment and settlement,” said Bhanu Chopra, Founder and Managing Director, RateGain. “With RG Pay, we are expanding from distribution into the core transaction infrastructure of the travel and hospitality ecosystem. Our vision is to position RateGain as the commerce backbone where every booking, across every geography, moves seamlessly from intent to realized revenue.” “RG Pay represents a strategic evolution of our hospitality commerce platform,” said Parijat Tiwari, Executive Vice President & General Manager- Distribution, RateGain. “By combining our global distribution footprint with a tiered ecosystem of payment partners, we are building a scalable infrastructure that simplifies payments, unlocks new revenue opportunities, and strengthens margin control across the travel value chain.” RG Pay is ready for pilot deployment in key markets and will be scaled thereafter, supporting RateGain’s vision of building a unified commerce infrastructure for the travel and hospitality industry. About RateGain RateGain Travel Technologies Limited is a global provider of AI-powered SaaS solutions for travel and hospitality, working with 13,000+ customers and 700+ partners across 160+ countries. RateGain helps travel and hospitality businesses accelerate revenue generation through acquisition, retention, and wallet share expansion. Today, RateGain is one of the world’s largest processors of electronic transactions, price points, and travel intent data, enabling revenue management, distribution, and marketing teams across hotels, airlines, destination marketing organizations, online travel agents, metasearch companies, package providers, car rentals, travel management companies, cruises, and ferries to drive better business outcomes. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in India, RateGain works with 33 of the Top 40 Hotel Chains, 4 of the Top 5 Airlines, 7 of the Top 10 Car Rental companies, and all leading DMOs, OTAs, and metasearch platforms, including 25 Global Fortune 500 companies, unlocking new revenue every day. Media Contact: Aastha Khurana: media@rategain.com  
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