Isaac Collazo

U.S. hotel performance continued to outpace 2025 in the week of May 3-9, with revenue per available room increasing 2%, the fifth consecutive week of growth and the 12th gain in the past 14 weeks.

The events have it.

With another set of easy comps against Easter week 2025, U.S. hotel revenue per available room jumped 8.5% on nearly equal gains in occupancy and average daily rate for the week ending April 25.

March came in like a lion in terms of U.S. hotel performance.

U.S. hotels saw their largest week of year-over-year growth since mid-January 2025, due to an easy comparison against Holy Week 2025.

Preliminary data shows that U.S. hotels sold the most rooms on record for any first quarter since STR began tracking the industry in 1987. An increase of roughly 5.9 million rooms sold year over year ...

U.S. hotel performance surged in the final week of March, capping off a historic first quarter for the industry.

U.S. hotels finally are in a "real growth" environment.

March continued strong as U.S. hotel room demand increased for a seventh consecutive week and at the highest level since mid-February.

The U.S. hotel industry continued to distance itself from a down year in 2025 as hotel demand increased for the sixth consecutive week with a 3% gain in the week of March 8-14.

ATLANTA — Amid the backdrop of the 2026 Hunter Hotel Investment Conference, the co-hosts of "Tell Me More: A Hospitality Data Podcast" shared a quick gut check on U.S. hotel industry health at this ...

U.S. hotel revenue per available room kicked off March with a 4.8% increase to $105, the largest weekly total since October 2025. Also during the week of March 1-7, U.S. hotel average date rate ...

After averaging gains of 4.6% in revenue per available room in the prior three weeks, U.S. hotels lost momentum and finished February with a thud as RevPAR declined 0.2% in the week of Feb. 22-28.

Have U.S. hotels turned the corner? U.S. hotel room demand has increased in 20 of the past 21 days, something that has not happened since January 2023. In the week of Feb. 15-21, room demand grew ...

One month of hotel performance data does not a trend make, but the year is getting off to an encouraging start.

Love ruled the week of February 8-14 as U.S. hotel revenue per available room rose 4.6% on a 12.1% gain on Valentine’s Day. Excluding Valentine’s Day, RevPAR rose 2.7%.

Revenue per available room growth returned for U.S. hotels in the week of Feb. 1-7, 2026. Countrywide, RevPAR rose by 2.8%, its strongest gain of the past five weeks.

Winter Storm Fern wreaked havoc on U.S. hotel performance in the week of Jan. 25-31 as revenue per available room fell 4% on declining occupancy (-2.4 percentage points) and unresponsive average ...

As expected based on history, U.S. hotel revenue per available room fell 1.8% during the week of Jan. 18-24 due to the MLK holiday, but the decrease was much larger than anticipated because of Winter ...

Hotel revenue per available room fell 0.3% in the United States in 2025, a figure "that was actually better than what we thought," said STR's Isaac Collazo on the latest episode of "Tell Me More: A ...