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Hotel Equities CEO Bets on AI to Restore Owner Margins
Hotel Equities CEO Ben Rafter warns that the current hotel business model is unsustainable due to inflation and is launching a tech-focused lab to use AI to restore owner margins.
Key Takeaways
- 1Implement HE Labs to systematically test and deploy AI tools designed specifically to boost owner profitability.
- 2Acknowledge that record RevPAR has failed to offset inflation, making current asset-heavy ownership models unsustainable without tech intervention.
- 3Focus automation efforts on middle-management tasks and back-office operations to redirect margins back to hotel owners.
Source: Skift
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