The Data Architecture Gap That Hotel AI Procurement Isn’t Pricing In

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Hotel CEOs are signing AI procurement contracts that will shape their technology stacks through 2030, but procurement teams often overlook the importance of underlying data architecture for compounding AI tools' effectiveness.

Hotel CEOs are signing AI contracts this quarter that will define their technology stack through 2030, and most procurement teams are evaluating these deals the wrong way — tool by tool, use case by use case, without asking whether the underlying data architecture allows those tools to compound or whether each one starts from zero.