Greg Oates

We're not sure why "independent shared-use lounges" haven't caught on in America sooner. A lot of people will pay $35 for a clean, quiet place with free wine and reliable Wi-Fi.

Larger health-wellness-adventure trends are driving the move towards more outdoors events and meetings in the hospitality industry.

With other Southeast Asian metropolises realizing the value of cultural arts to help attract new legions of global travelers, Hong Kong zoomed to the front of the line with the Art Basel partnership.

Travel consumers have voiced their demand for hotel brands to inject more compelling travel content into their websites. It seems Peninsula Hotels was listening.

With only four hotels, The James brand has earned a disproportionate amount of street cred in the hospitality industry for its "warm modernism" and community partnerships with local cultural organizations.

Everyone gets tired of luxury conference hotels—even really expensive ones. Exclusive properties offer the possibility of entertaining in a place you'd like to go if you weren't there on business.

Miami is emerging as a more layered and varied tourism product, spurred by the development of cultural arts districts and aggressive hotel development catering to all segments.

There's no longer a one-size-fits-all method to meetings. Smart hotels are looking to new ideas -- even if they're very old ideas like yoga -- to offer better options for planners and guests.

Hospitality brands responded to the threat to the meetings industry by innovating and ditching the one-size-fits all approach. Find out where things are headed next.