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🎮 Hospitalidad Emprendedora partners Albert Pérez Llanos and Gian Franco Mercado emphasize the tourism industry's reliance on collaboration among hotels, airlines, travel agencies, tour operators, and customers, highlighting the need for secure, transparent, and efficient transaction systems. Introducing "Camino," a blockchain aimed at transforming sector interactions, it provides a decentralized infrastructure addressing excessive intermediation, trust, and complex administrative processes. Camino Messenger, a communication protocol on this blockchain, allows businesses to connect through one API, standardizing interaction formats across different internal systems, granting immediate global network access. Over 120 validators, including TUI, Lufthansa, Eurowings, Sixt, Hotelplan, HolidayCheck, Juniper, Universal Beach Hotels, MTS, and Dertour, participate in Camino's network, which has registered over 250,000 transactions.

🏨 Riu Hotels & Resorts led Spanish hotel chains in 2023 with €3.607 billion in revenue and 49,879 rooms, achieving a TrevPAR of €72,315. Meliá Hotels International followed with €2.935 billion and 91,490 rooms (TrevPAR: €32,080), and Barceló Hotel Group with €2.917 billion and 61,996 rooms (TrevPAR: €47,068). The TrevPAR metric includes all hotel revenue sources and confirms a V-shaped recovery post-pandemic. More TrevPAR evolution data to be published by HOSTELTUR soon.

🏖️ Hosteltur's Urban Tourism Conference, backed by the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria City Council and Turismo LPA, is scheduled online for November 21, from 10:30 to 12:40. The event, themed around the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in urban tourism management, features 15 experts including representatives from Riu Hotels & Resorts, W2M, Civitatis, Sercotel, Simpleview, Casual, and VisitBenidorm. Speakers include Pedro Quevedo, Joan Barceló, Esperanza Molina, Guido Schinocca, and Manuel Molina, with multiple sessions on AI applications and hotel chains' challenges with AI moderated by industry professionals.