by Are Morch | Aug 24, 2026 | Hotel AI Strategy
You checked your Google ranking, and it looks fine. Search your town plus “boutique hotel,” and there you are, on the first page, maybe near the top. So you assumed you were visible. Then you opened ChatGPT and asked it to recommend a boutique hotel in...
by Are Morch | Jul 26, 2026 | Hospitality Leadership
There is a phrase I hear constantly in hotel AI conversations, and almost everyone who uses it means the wrong thing by it. The skill gap. When most people say a hotel has an AI skill gap, they picture a housekeeper who cannot navigate a new app, or a front desk agent...
by Are Morch | Jul 13, 2026 | Hospitality Leadership
I have spent a long time now looking at which hotels get real value from AI and which ones spend money and end up disappointed, and I want to report something that surprised me. The dividing line is not budget. It is not the size of the property, the sophistication of...
by Are Morch | Jul 6, 2026 | Hotel AI Strategy
Most hotels approach AI the way they approach any new technology. They look for a tool to buy, a vendor to hire, or a system to install. Then they wonder why the results never quite match the promise. The hotels that actually succeed with AI tend to have something...
by Are Morch | Jun 25, 2026 | Hotel AI Strategy
I remember a conversation I had with a hotel general manager several years ago while we were sitting in a quiet corner of his lobby, just after the morning check-out rush had settled down. He had been in the hospitality industry for more than two decades and had seen...
