Mews says a hotel’s guest messages land across six or seven inboxes that no one can watch at once. On October 1, the company launched two features inside its hospitality platform aimed at that problem: Guest Messaging, which puts every channel in one thread tied to the guest profile and reservation, and Automations, a no-code workflow engine that runs rules a property sets once. The figures below come from Mews’s own release.
What Mews launched
Guest Messaging launches with support for SMS, WhatsApp, Booking.com, Expedia and the Mews Guest Portal. Mews says a guest can text from the airport, switch to WhatsApp on arrival and then use the portal, and staff see one conversation. The thread is tied to the guest’s profile and reservation, so Mews AI sees room status, billing and special requests and does not ask guests for details the property management system already holds.
Mews quantifies the problem it is addressing: “One in three guest messages goes unanswered” because messages land across six or seven inboxes, and guests who do get a reply wait eight hours on average. Mews does not cite a source or sample for those figures in the release. It also says Mews AI, trained on the property’s own data, answers 80% of routine questions instantly, such as pool hours, parking, late checkout and breakfast.
Automations covers the other side of the front desk workload. A rule is built once in a no-code engine and then runs on every shift. The examples in the release are a returning guest, a birthday, a newly reached loyalty tier and a VIP who always gets the corner room. At selected Strawberry properties, up to 60% of upgrades for Gold and Platinum guests were automated, and paired with Guest Messaging an arriving guest can receive a personalized welcome message with a door access PIN at check-in. During the beta, 47,000 automations ran across Mews.
Maurits Bots, Hotel ICT Specialist at WestCord, said, “I built a fully automated room check workflow without a single hour of engineering time.” Joel Ndreu, VP Product and Engineering at Mews, said, “Guest Messaging is about giving them that time back, and Automations means the things that make a guest feel remembered happen automatically, without anyone having to be the one who remembers.”
Why it matters to guest experience and operations leaders
Mews has built both features into the system that already holds the reservation, which gives buyers a specific thing to test. A hotel group comparing a standalone messaging vendor with a PMS-native one can test a concrete question: does the AI answer from the live reservation record, or from a copy that syncs on a delay? The release says Mews AI works from the full guest profile, and a demo with a real arriving guest will show whether that holds.
The automation examples are about recognition rather than revenue. Mews says most hospitality automation focuses on upsells, dynamic pricing and paid upgrades, and that its engine is built to automate the moments that bring guests back. For a loyalty or brand-standards lead, that points to a practical exercise: list the recognition steps a property team handles by memory today, such as tier upgrades and returning-guest welcomes, and check which of them a rules engine could run without a developer.
Staffing is the third angle. Mews positions the features as time returned to front desk staff, and the 80% figure for routine questions is the number a general manager can test against a property’s own inbox. Properties can pull a month of guest messages, count how many fall into the routine categories the release names, and compare that share with Mews’s figure before committing.
What to ask before buying
The release does not state pricing, a rollout schedule by region or whether the beta results held across property types. It also gives no figure on how often the AI hands a conversation to a human. Buyers can ask for the escalation rate, the list of channels supported at launch and the data the AI is allowed to use, then check them against their own guest mix. Mews lists 15,000 customers across 85 countries, so reference calls with properties of a similar size should be available.
Source: Mews via PR Newswire
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Notes: The one-in-three and eight-hour figures are attributed to Mews and flagged as uncited in the release; the customer quote containing banned wording was deliberately not used.
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