# Bored Hotelier
> From AI to RevPAR to marketing failures, sustainability myths and mental breakdowns - everything there is to know about running hotels. For those who'd rather learn from other people's mistakes.
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## Pages
- [About Bored Hotelier](https://boredhotelier.com/about.md) - Hotels are beautiful businesses run by people who sometimes forget that. This blog exists for the hoteliers, owners and asset managers who haven't forgotten - and who are quietly losing their minds watching perfectly good properties make perfectly avoidable mistakes. Nearly two decades of notes. Fi…
- [Disclaimer](https://boredhotelier.com/disclaimer.md) - Just in case... Everything on Bored Hotelier represents personal opinions and observations based on nearly two decades of experience in the hospitality industry. This is not professional consultancy advice. No hotels, individuals or businesses are named intentionally. Any resemblance to specific pr…
- [Privacy Policy](https://boredhotelier.com/privacy-policy.md) - Last updated: July 2026 Welcome to Bored Hotelier. Your privacy matters here — unlike at some hotels we know. 😄 What data we collect: When you fill in the Subscribe form we collect your name and email address. That's it. Nothing else. Why we collect it: To occasionally send you new posts and updat…

## Posts
- [Beware Of Company Culture.](https://boredhotelier.com/beware-of-company-culture.md) - Building a culture people don't want to leave is genuinely skilled work. It's also structurally identical to how greedy institutions operate.
- [Women Power. One Day a Year.](https://boredhotelier.com/women-run-hospitality-men-run-the-meeting.md) - Diverse leadership teams are 25% more profitable. Better decisions 87% of the time. So why do women hold only 7% of hospitality CEO roles?
- [Welcome to the Outrage Economy. Only the Paranoid Survive.](https://boredhotelier.com/welcome-to-the-outrage-economy-survivor-takes-all.md) - Pepsi. Balenciaga. Bud Light. Zara. Adidas. One tweet, one broken promise, a one-way ticket to the Marketing Hall of Shame.
- [The 1-1-1 Rule. Or How to Stay Sane in Hospitality.](https://boredhotelier.com/the-1-1-1-rule-or-how-to-stay-sane-in-hospitality.md) - Burnouts. Sleepless nights. A career that becomes your entire personality before you notice. Here's the 1-1-1 rule of staying sane.
- [The Best Sustainability Solutions Are There. Why Can't Hotels Use Them?](https://boredhotelier.com/the-best-sustainability-solutions-are-there-why-cant-hotels-use-them.md) - Every hotel operator's inbox is full of cheaper, greener suppliers. Most can't buy from a single one. The real reason operations cost so much.
- [The Sustainability Question With Four Right Answers](https://boredhotelier.com/the-sustainability-question-with-four-right-answers.md) - Another RFP season, another sustainability questionnaire. Some hand you the acceptable answers to pick from. Here's what happens after "submit".
- [Hotel Budgeting 2027: What to Focus On](https://boredhotelier.com/hotel-budgeting-2027-what-to-focus-on.md) - STR's May forecast assumed the ceasefire would hold through summer. It didn't. What the numbers actually say now, region by region.
- [Welcome to Your Room. Please Don't Steal Anything.](https://boredhotelier.com/welcome-to-your-room-please-dont-steal-anything.md) - A sign warning against theft at an Arizona park increased it nearly fourfold. Hotels place a laminated price card next to every room item.
- [Fine Dining. Minus the Fine. Plus a Toddler.](https://boredhotelier.com/fine-dining-minus-the-fine-plus-a-toddler.md) - A California restaurant charged parents $327 for a broken card machine. 75% of diners support adults-only dining. Even the parents.
- [The Elevator Screen Is Not a Marketing Channel.](https://boredhotelier.com/the-elevator-screen-is-not-a-marketing-channel.md) - A guest in an elevator is thinking about their floor. A guest on a beach is thinking about nothing. One of these is a marketing moment.
- [The Right to Disconnect in the Industry That Never Does.](https://boredhotelier.com/the-right-to-disconnect-in-the-industry-that-never-does.md) - France deletes your emails on holiday. Portugal made after-hours contact illegal. Somewhere else, your phone buzzes at 10pm regardless.
- [RevPAR Is Up. Margins Are Down. Bonus Received.](https://boredhotelier.com/revpar-is-up-margins-are-down-bonus-received.md) - RevPAR is up. The STR report looked good. Then the P&L arrived - labour, OTA commissions, all invisible in the one number everyone's measured on.
- [GM of the Year. Sponsored by Whoever Bought the Table.](https://boredhotelier.com/gm-of-the-year-sponsored-by-whoever-bought-the-table.md) - Every year hospitality crowns its award winners. Heavy trophies, expensive galas, humble speeches - and the winners' hotels paid for the table.
- [The Sustainable Hotel. Front of House, Anyway.](https://boredhotelier.com/the-sustainable-hotel.md) - Hotels have made real progress on sustainability - refillable dispensers, recyclable straws. Walk past the lobby. The office hasn't changed.
- [GEO. AEO. LLMO. It's Still Just SEO.](https://boredhotelier.com/geo-aeo-llmo-its-still-just-seo.md) - Google published an official guide to AI search optimisation. The headline finding: it's still SEO. Same signals, one key difference.
- [A Psychologist Walked Into a Hotel. Nobody Listened.](https://boredhotelier.com/a-psychologist-walked-into-a-hotel-nobody-listened.md) - A 2008 study ran seven messages across hotel rooms. The science was clear. The industry nodded and kept printing the same card.
- [Every Hotel Brand Is a Myth.](https://boredhotelier.com/every-hotel-brand-is-a-myth.md) - Every hotel brand is a shared myth. The ones that last get their micro-stories right, at every touchpoint, every day.
- [Finally Someone Is Reading Your Press Releases. It's AI.](https://boredhotelier.com/finally-someone-is-reading-your-press-releases-its-ai.md) - Good news — someone is finally reading your press releases. Bad news... it's AI.
- [RevPAM. The Metric Your Hotel Should Have Been Using Yesterday](https://boredhotelier.com/revpam-the-metric-your-hotel-should-have-been-using-yesterday.md) - RevPAR says nothing about your spa, ballroom, or rooftop bar sitting empty at €0 per sq metre. Here's the metric that measures your whole hotel.
- [Budgeting for 2027. Here's How to Think About It.](https://boredhotelier.com/budgeting-for-2027-heres-how-to-think-about-it.md) - STR projected +4.2% RevPAR for GCC in 2026, published two days before the conflict started. What the data says now, and how to budget for 2027.
- [The Phone Eats First.](https://boredhotelier.com/the-phone-eats-first.md) - Michel Roux put up a sign. No photos, please. Gordon Ramsay went to Twitter instead. Two three-star chefs, two opposite views.
- [The Most Underestimated Professionals on the Planet](https://boredhotelier.com/the-most-underestimated-professionals-on-the-planet.md) - Every crisis hits hospitality first. The jobs disappear overnight. Then the world wonders why it can't find people who handle pressure.
- [The Company That Tells Hotels How They're Doing Has Never Run a Hotel.](https://boredhotelier.com/the-company-that-tells-hotels-how-theyre-doing-has-never-run-a-hotel.md) - The company that tells every hotel how it's performing is a real estate firm worth $16.5 billion. They knew a better metric existed in 2012.
- [Every Hotel Is Buying AI. Almost Nobody Is Ready For It.](https://boredhotelier.com/every-hotel-is-buying-ai-almost-nobody-is-ready-for-it.md) - Hotels are rushing into AI. But technology can't fix what management won't face. Garbage in. Garbage out.
- [The Ballroom Trap](https://boredhotelier.com/the-ballroom-trap.md) - Your sales team is guarding empty space and calling it strategy.
- [What Is RGI in Hotels - And Why It's Killing Your Business](https://boredhotelier.com/how-rgi-is-killing-your-business.md) - RGI compares your RevPAR to a comp set that's rarely fair. What actually matters instead: TRevPAR, GOP PAR, and revenue per square meter.
- [Your Next Guest Is Asking ChatGPT Where to Stay. Is Your Hotel in the Answer?](https://boredhotelier.com/your-next-guest-is-asking-chatgpt-where-to-stay-is-your-hotel-in-the-answer.md) - Apparently you can't buy AI's love and trust. It'll be hard work. But it's free: all you need is some motivation and this step by step guide.
- [Two Guys. One Table. Zero Revenue.](https://boredhotelier.com/two-guys-one-table-zero-revenue.md) - A masterclass in running the least profitable bar in hospitality. Starring two guys, one billiard table, and approximately one beer each.
- [4 Receipts. 1 Salad.](https://boredhotelier.com/four-receipts-one-salad.md) - I don't work for that hotel. I was on holiday. But even I was scared of their finance department. So I signed everything.
- [Three Resorts. One Beach. One Winner.](https://boredhotelier.com/three-resorts-one-beach-one-winner.md) - Three five-star resorts. Same beach. Same chain. Same guests. One of them sent guests to the competition and paid for the bus. Literally.
- [One "No." Millions Lost. Here's How.](https://boredhotelier.com/one-no-millions-lost.md) - What a receptionist in Bali can teach you about global hotel sales.
- [The Most Expensive Word in Hospitality](https://boredhotelier.com/the-most-expensive-word-in-hospitality.md) - Spoiler: it's not 'renovation'.

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