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1 week ago | 
hotel-online.com | Adam Mogelonsky |Larry Mogelonsky
By Adam Mogelonsky, Larry MogelonskySantorini possesses one of the most irrefutably incredible landscapes in the world. From its soaring cliffs overlooking the calm, azure Aegean Sea to the white, red, and black sand beaches formed by eons of volcanic activity, Thera, the island’s official name in Greek, has become synonymous with the nation’s interpretation of hospitality.
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1 week ago | 
hospitalitynet.org | Adam Mogelonsky |Larry Mogelonsky
Truly, there’s no place like Rome. The Eternal City is forever a delight to visit for work or for pleasure. Over the past five years, the Italian capital has gone through a hospitality renaissance, with incredible hotels opening (or reopening) throughout its ancient center. This has forced every market participant to step up their game.
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3 weeks ago | 
hospitalitynet.org | Adam Mogelonsky |Larry Mogelonsky
It’s inevitable that modern advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and automation will impact the hotel industry. While much has been rightfully said about use cases like machine learning (ML) impacting personalized guest offers or microsegmentation and generative AI (genAI) helping with contextual marketing or summarization for staff, for this focused article let’s shift gears from the rooms division into the spa and wellness facilities.
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3 weeks ago | 
4hoteliers.com | Larry Mogelonsky
While the pandemic significantly reduced the hospitality workforce and dented the industry’s appeal for younger recruits, that’s only part of the picture.
Other factors, such as the growing appeal of remote work over on-site roles, shrinking Gen Z workforce numbers, and evolving immigration patterns, are all outside of your control.
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1 month ago | 
4hoteliers.com | Larry Mogelonsky
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Applying Next-Gen ‘Wave Tech’ to Hotel Sleep, Spa and WellnessBy Adam and Larry MogelonskyWednesday, 16th April 2025
Using a multisensorial blend of light waves, electricity, radio waves, soundwaves or vibrations to heal the body, these technologies represent a high-margin, low-labor path to grow wellness revenues for a spa or as an in-room amenity.
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1 month ago | 
hospitalitynet.org | Adam Mogelonsky |Larry Mogelonsky
There are two problems I have with the term ‘plant-based’. For one, the evidence I read from longevity research, biohacking resources and centenarian studies continues to reaffirm the anthropological and evolutionary evidence that humans are ‘opportunistic omnivores’ wherein over the long-term we need a balance of high-quality foods from both kingdoms – plants and animals.
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1 month ago | 
hospitalitynet.org | Adam Mogelonsky |Larry Mogelonsky
The hotel industry has seen an explosion of new brands and sub-brands over the past two decades, and this trend shows no signs of abating. This diversification is driven by various forces, with a prominent rationale being that emergent brands can better appeal to niche interests, microsegments or specific customer identities.
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1 month ago | 
costar.com | Larry Mogelonsky
Bleisure has been a buzz word since well before the pandemic, but since that event catalyzed the adoption and acceptance of remote and hybrid work, the notion of blending traditionally disparate travel segments has taken on a whole new, and lucrative, meaning. Entering 2025, though, the concept of combining business and leisure — hence the portmanteau bleisure — no longer really encompasses all the different travel behaviors and sources of revenue that hotels can activate.
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1 month ago | 
hospitalitynet.org | Adam Mogelonsky |Larry Mogelonsky
As we see time again, the story of a hotel is the story of the people working at the hotel. This is especially true for the luxury hospitality segment where service excellence, exclusive amenities and personalization are hallmarks of an experience worthy of the term ‘luxury’.
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1 month ago | 
hospitalitynet.org | Adam Mogelonsky |Larry Mogelonsky
The best way to come to grips with artificial intelligence (AI) for spa and wellness is through the phrase ‘technology-adjacent therapies’. That is, for our industry where human-to-human contact is ever-so-centric to guest satisfaction, it’s not that automation will supplant practitioners but that these contemporary tools will offset the undesirable, repetitive tasks to augment the experience.
