FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SAN DIEGO, CA — June 29, 2026 — The AI Hospitality Alliance (AIHA) today announced its inaugural group of Founding Partners, bringing together leading hospitality technology companies and an academic institution committed to advancing responsible AI adoption across the global hospitality industry.
The founding partners represent a broad cross-section of the hospitality ecosystem — including commercial platforms, property management systems, revenue optimization, digital marketing, AI infrastructure, operations technology, guest experience, booking technology, distribution, and higher education — reflecting the industry's shared recognition that collaboration will be essential as artificial intelligence reshapes hospitality.
"We founded AI Hospitality Alliance because no single company, hotel brand, or technology provider can solve the industry's AI challenges alone," said Ira Vouk, Founder of AI Hospitality Alliance. "Artificial intelligence is changing every aspect of hospitality — from guest discovery and booking to operations, revenue management, and the employee experience. The companies joining us as Founding Partners recognize that some of the most important work ahead — education, technical interoperability, governance, and industry standards — must be developed collaboratively for the benefit of the entire hospitality ecosystem."
The Alliance serves as a neutral industry collaboration focused on accelerating responsible AI adoption through education, best practices, technical guidance, research, and open industry dialogue. Earlier this month, AIHA published The AI Hospitality Alliance Declaration, a public statement of its mission, vision, and transparent 12-month roadmap, outlining five strategic workstreams that will guide its efforts:
- Agentic Direct Booking & Commerce
- Standards & Technical Guidelines
- Governance & Responsible AI
- Thought Leadership & Education
- Events & Industry Collaboration
The Declaration serves as a living framework that will continue to evolve through collaboration with members, advisory board, committees, partners, and the broader hospitality community, reinforcing the Alliance's commitment to transparency and industry-wide participation.
Inaugural Founding Partners
- Apaleo
- Canary Technologies
- Cendyn
- Cloudbeds
- Curacity
- FLYR Hospitality
- Grevon
- Lighthouse
- Milestone
- Polydom
- RMS Cloud
- SDSU Payne School of Hospitality & Tourism Management
About the Founding Partners
Apaleo
An open, AI-powered property management platform for hotels and serviced apartments. Built on a flexible, API-first architecture, it allows operators to break away from rigid, all-in-one systems. Instead, it functions as a central hub where brands can easily integrate and automate their ideal combination of property management, guest communication, and AI-driven tools.
Canary Technologies
Canary Technologies is transforming hotel operations with its award-winning agentic AI platform for hotel and guest management. From discovery to post-stay, Canary's solutions streamline operations, boost revenue, and transform the guest experience. Trusted by 20,000+ hotels across 120+ countries, Canary has been recognized by Fast Company, Deloitte, Business Insider and more.
Cendyn
Cendyn drives commercial success for hotels through its Find, Book, Grow promise: helping hoteliers find the right guests, drive direct bookings, and grow loyalty and revenue across every stage of the guest journey. Serving hotels for 30 years, its connected hospitality platform supports more than 32,000 customers across 150 countries, generating over $20 billion in annual hotel revenue.
Cloudbeds
The hospitality management system built for ambitious hoteliers who demand more. The Cloudbeds platform unifies operations, distribution, guest experience, and revenue marketing, giving operators a breadth of tools to capture demand, grow direct bookings, optimize pricing, maximize upsell revenue, and act on real-time intelligence within a single system.
Curacity
Curacity's network of leading media partners helps hospitality brands gain visibility through authoritative content that drives consumer discovery across AI, search, and trusted travel media audiences, generating measurable demand and revenue growth.
FLYR Hospitality
An AI-first revenue management and commercial intelligence platform purpose-built for the hospitality industry. Combining advanced demand forecasting, automated pricing, inventory optimization, and business intelligence, it helps hotel operators improve RevPAR, forecast accuracy, and commercial performance across portfolios of every size.
Grevon
An AI booking and connectivity platform built for hospitality. Developed by the team behind leading property management systems, Grevon is built around Grevon Kore, a connectivity layer based on the Model Context Protocol that powers AI booking and voice agents while positioning hotels for AI-powered travel planning.
Lighthouse
Lighthouse is the AI Commercial Operating Platform for hospitality — the intelligence and automation layer that connects pricing, distribution, marketing, and performance management into a single system of action. Powered by the industry's largest proprietary data network spanning 80,000 hotels across 185 countries, Lighthouse delivers better commercial outcomes for hotels worldwide.
Milestone
Milestone is the AI-native platform that helps brands measure their visibility in AI search, automate the content recommendations, and build AI-first websites that are discoverable across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude. The Milestone platform enables agent-ready, callable infrastructure that turns AI discovery into personalized experiences, higher conversions, and direct bookings.
Polydom
Polydom delivers Una, an AI digital employee for hospitality and part of a new digital labor model. Its mission is to help operators build hybrid teams, where people and AI digital employees work together to ease labor-cost pressure and strengthen direct, loyal guest relationships. Polydom believes the future of hospitality is not less human, but better supported — by technology that integrates with existing systems and gives teams more capacity to care.
RMS Cloud
A cloud-native property management platform headquartered in Australia, trusted by over 6,000 hospitality businesses across 70 countries. Serving hotels, motels, serviced apartments, vacation rentals and outdoor accommodation providers, RMS's platform is built on an open API and enterprise-grade architecture. RMS delivers innovative, robust solutions designed to help operators scale with confidence.
SDSU Payne School of Hospitality & Tourism Management
The L. Robert Payne School of Hospitality & Tourism Management at San Diego State University is one of the leading hospitality management programs in the United States, preparing future hospitality leaders through industry-connected education, applied research, innovation, and strong partnerships with the global hospitality industry.
While the Founding Partner cohort is now closed, organizations can continue to join the Alliance as Strategic Partners as it expands its global community.
Organizations interested in participating in AI Hospitality Alliance initiatives, committees, or sponsorship opportunities can learn more at https://aihospitalityalliance.com/contact.
About AI Hospitality Alliance
AI Hospitality Alliance is a global, vendor-neutral industry alliance dedicated to accelerating responsible artificial intelligence adoption across hospitality. Through collaboration, education, research, technical guidance, and industry standards, the Alliance brings together hotel companies, technology providers, educators, consultants, and industry leaders to help shape the future of hospitality in the AI era.
Media Contact
Ira Vouk Founder, AI Hospitality Alliance AI Hospitality Alliance Contact Page