AI-Native Hotels: Physical AI Creates a New Species in Hospitality

This article explores the paradigm shift in the hotel industry from traditional functional complexes to AI-native hotels (AI+). The author identifies the 'digital experience inversion' phenomenon and predicts that by 2029-2030, AI-native models will become mainstream. The rise of physical AI makes hotels an ideal application scenario, achieving both efficiency and warmth through unified data lakes, soul modules, and human-machine collaboration. Incremental hotels will adopt first, while existing hotels face transformation challenges.