Hyatt Earnings: Credit Card Windfall and AI Job Cuts
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Skift Take
Hyatt’s rough quarter shows the strain of a corporate restructuring and Hurricane Melissa. But new profits from a co-branded credit card and gains from adopting AI suggest a brighter 2026.
Hyatt has done a significant corporate restructuring that relies partly on greater automation and has signed a more profitable credit card partnership with Chase.
The hotel operator said during a Thursday earnings call it had reorganized its corporate teams around five brand groups. The change involved cutting about 5% of its corporate workforce last month, as Skift first reported.
"In the course of reorganizing the company, we found tremendous levels of efficiency in how we're staffed," said CEO Mark Hoplamazian.
One-time severance costs will lead to $50 million in restructuring charges, executives said. A key part of the transformation involves expanded use of AI and automation.
The reorganization coincides with an expanded agreement with Chase announced Wednesday that Hyatt expects will more than double the EBITDA contribution from credit card programs by 2027.
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