Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Călin Ile Author-Name-First: Călin Author-Name-Last: Ile Author-Email: calin@premierhospitality.ro Author-Workplace-Name: omanian Federation of Hotel Industry, Premier Hospitality Consultancy Company, Bucharest, Romania Title: Hotel of the future Journal: CACTUS - The Tourism Journal for Research, Education, Culture and Soul Abstract: We live in a world of change, and the pace of change has never been faster. The consequences are very far-reaching, and adaptability has become the most important success factor for people, for different industries, for countries, and indeed for everyone. The impact is enormous and comes from so many sources that the hospitality sector, of course, cannot be excluded. There are changes in the way we live, in the way we interact, changes in demographics or politics, new resources appear in our lives and others simply disappear, and climate change and sustainability are now hot topics for everyone. This paper aims to explore how these changes will affect the future of the hotel industry and how a hotel may look in the near future considering the influences and pressures of so many changes. Keywords: hotel business, changes, evolution, tourism, digitization and sustainability Classification-JEL: L83, Z32 Creation-Date: 2023 Year: 2023 Volume: 27 Issue: 1 File-URL: https://cactus-journal-of-tourism.ase.ro/Pdf/vol_5_1/IV_7.Ile_Industry.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:bum:cactus:cactus-2023-8