
The market is splitting between luxury and economy, and most PMS systems are really built for one side of it. We look at what that means for a conference hotel that's neither.

Guests will soon stop booking themselves — an AI agent will do it on their behalf. We look at what that actually means for a conference hotel over the next two years, and what's still pure hype.

Every vendor now says they have AI. That makes the question less interesting than it used to be — the real one is whether it's an actual agent with tool access, or a suggestion with a fancy name.

Building a simple app with AI in an afternoon has become surprisingly real. What that same afternoon doesn't solve is security, regulations, and the maintenance waiting in the years after.

The industry is shifting from rate growth to profitability. That should change what you look for in a system — and the real cost rarely sits in the license price.

A system switch rarely fails because of the system itself. It fails on what nobody mentioned in the demo — the timing, the data, and the people who actually have to use it every day.

The market for event systems is growing faster than most can keep up with — but consolidation, AI promises, and lock-in raise new questions. We go through the trends, and what they actually mean for a Norwegian conference hotel.