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From Tools to Touchpoints: Reimagining Hospitality for 2045

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Already by 2025, “ wellness tourism ” is expected to grow alongside sustainability-focused offerings. Looking at the decades to come, expectations will only deepen: wellness programming, ecological design, and culturally rooted hospitality will be baseline, not bonus.

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2025 F&B Trends: Newstalgia, Stealth Health, and Botanical Beverages

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Stealth Health and More New research reveals the top trends set to shake up American menus in 2025, with caraflex cabbage and functional plants stealing the spotlight, condiments like hot honey making waves, and food tourism content fueling a craving for authentic global flavors.

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Latest Payment Technology Trends for Restaurant Checkout

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Plus, as tourism starts to open back up post-pandemic, it will be revolutionary for popular tourist destinations where language barriers exist. However, it could also be useful in other settings, taking pressure off waiters and providing a more intuitive option to self-ordering on an app as customers could pay without further contact.

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Is the Customer Always Right?

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Now, I’m not sure we can do that anymore,” said Dr. Melissa Baker, associate professor and chair of the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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The End of the Breakfast Buffet

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And if hotels did bring back the breakfast buffet, would today’s guests — equipped with a new heightened awareness of hygiene — still even want them? Dr. Richard Ghiselli, head of the School of Hospitality & Tourism Management at Purdue University, is part of the newly created Global Cleanliness Council with Marriott Hotels.

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MRM People & Places: Maki Madness and Pancakes for Life

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“VISIT PHILADELPHIA and the James Beard Foundation are thrilled for our unique partnership that brings the culinary and tourism industries together to make it easy for travelers to support delicious, diverse, and sustainable food,” said Jeff Guaracino, president and CEO, VISIT PHILADELPHIA. The event will take place at 10:00 A.M.

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Dining Trends for 2024

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Ninety-six percent of survey participants agreed that culinary tourism is thriving. Travel experts report interest in trips to an expanded array of destinations with uniquely appealing cultural points of interest.

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