GMH Hotels: Hotel AI Is Cutting Costs. It Should Be Making Money.
Good Morning Hospitality
06/10/26
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On this week's Good Morning Hospitality, A Skift Podcast: Hotels Edition, Sarah Dandashy and Steve Turk break down why hotel AI is stuck on the wrong side of the ledger and what it will take to flip it.
The conversation opens with Mews founder Richard Valtr making the case at Skift's Data and AI Summit that fragmented hotel data is the reason AI keeps cutting costs instead of driving revenue.
From there Sarah and Steve dig into what Apple's rebuilt Siri means for how guests will find and interact with travel, Alaska Airlines' bet that Starlink wifi is a better loyalty driver than points for basic economy travelers, and why Delta Air Lines is expanding American Express card benefits without raising fees while every competitor goes the other direction.
This episode is presented by Cloudbeds & Bilt. Visit cloudbeds.com/gmh to learn more.
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Previous Episode
Independent hoteliers are under pressure from every direction, and now there's an AI mandate on top of it all.
Wil sits down with Adam Harris, Co-Founder and CEO of Cloudbeds, to cut through the noise. Adam's argument: most operators aren't failing because they lack effort or the right tools.
They're failing because they haven't defined the problem, and they're sitting on fragmented data that makes even the best AI useless. The takeaway: AI isn't the strategy. Better questions, better data, and better decisions are.
This episode is presented by Cloudbeds. Connect with Cloudbeds at https://www.cloudbeds.com/gmh, and you can subscribe to Adam's newsletter here: https://www.cloudbeds.com/newsletter/
00:00 Meet Adam Harris
01:37 The Operator Squeeze
04:04 When Tech Becomes a Burden
07:25 AI Starts With Questions
08:37 Deterministic vs Probabilistic
12:24 Cleaning Up Hotel Data
13:49 Cloudbeds Signals In Action
16:35 Autonomous Coding And Caution
18:21 Future Of Hospitality Systems
21:55 Closing Takeaway
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