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🏡 Lighthouse (formerly OTA Insight) acquired The Hotels Network, a marketing personalization technology firm for the hospitality industry. The merger integrates Lighthouse's business intelligence platform with AI-driven marketing technology. The Hotels Network, founded in 2015, serves over 20,000 hotels in 100+ countries, with clients like Minor Hotels and Preferred Hotels & Resorts, boasting a 32% average increase in direct bookings. The combined tech aims to transform market intelligence into personalized booking experiences, enhancing direct channel revenue for hotels.

🔥 Sindicalistas de Base in Santa Cruz de Tenerife maintain a strike in the hospitality sector during Easter week, rejecting Ashotel's 4% wage increase proposal. Delegates unanimously disapproved the offer on April 15. Ashotel proposed a 2.25% increase retroactive from January, countering unions' revised demand from 7.45% to 6.25%. The province's hospitality workers exceed 33,600, affected by the rejected offer, which Ashotel claims, would effectively total a 5% raise due to additional adjustments.

🏨 Impression Isla Mujeres by Secrets, designed by Andrés Cajiga and ALIA Made in Architecture, emphasizes luxury without compromising environmental commitment, utilizing local materials, solar panels, and a water purification plant to eliminate plastic use. The hotel was built by repurposing an existing structure to minimize impact and has been voted the world's most Instagrammable hotel by Luxury Travel Advisor for two consecutive years. It also supports local marine conservation and fishing communities. MIL Studios' project for NH Collection Madrid Eurobuilding showcases adaptable 'flex living' spaces designed for emotional well-being. Only You Boutique Hotel Madrid's YOUnique Arts Club functions as a living gallery in collaboration with Maza.Art, selling artworks and uniting design, creativity, and artistic expression. Fairmont La Hacienda Costa del Sol in Cádiz by Daar Arquitectura integrates local identity and vernacular architecture, using local stone and artisan techniques. Barceló Playa Blanca in Lanzarote, designed by CMV Architects, features a lobby that frames the ocean and harmonizes with the volcanic landscape, spreading over 100,000 square meters with 720 rooms. The hotel design trends of 2025 prioritize adaptability, emotional connection, deep sustainability, interdisciplinary fusion, and local valorization.