The Hospitality Newsletter Team

Everything on this site is published under one byline, because that is how it is actually made. The brief is the work of a small group — writers, researchers, data analysts and marketers — rather than a masthead of individual correspondents, and attributing a piece to a single name would misrepresent how it came together.

What the team does

Research. Each morning we read across the hospitality trade press and the wider web, weigh what has been reported, and decide what genuinely matters to someone running a property. Most of what we read does not make the brief.

Writing. Our longer pieces draw several publications' reporting into one fuller account than any of them ran alone, and name every source they were built from.

Data. We maintain our own datasets — a transactions database assembled from reported deals, market indicators from Eurostat and the US Travel Service, and a glossary of 161 industry terms — and publish the workings rather than only the conclusions.

Distribution. The morning email, the site, and the tools that sit alongside them.

How we use AI and automation

We say this plainly because readers deserve to know how what they are reading was made. Discovery, first-pass summarisation and the assembly of our datasets are automated. Language models help draft and structure articles from source material we have selected.

What is not automated is the judgement: which stories run, which sources are trusted, and what gets held back. Every figure in an original article is checked against the source documents it came from, and a piece containing a number we cannot verify is held rather than published — a rule that exists because an early draft produced a hotel-pipeline statistic that appeared in none of its sources. We would rather publish less than publish something confidently wrong.

Where we summarise another publication's reporting, we say so, link to it, and send you there. That work is theirs.

Corrections and contact

If we get something wrong we want to know. Our corrections page records what we have fixed, and our editorial policy sets out how we choose and check stories.