How Hilton wired Anthropic into the booking flow: a Q1 RevPAR read

A hotel concierge desk at mid-morning with a laptop open to an earnings webcast, a half-finished coffee, and a notebook of scribbled numbers.

Hilton's Q1 print landed this morning — RevPAR up 3.6% currency-neutral, EBITDA $901M, full-year guide raised — and Chris Nassetta named Anthropic on the call. The contrarian read: Hilton just staked the agentic-discovery layer ahead of Marriott, Hyatt, and Wyndham, and the C-shape framing is the tell.

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