Michael Stathokostopoulos

For Seattle hotels, the surest World Cup draw wasn’t the tournament itself — it was Team USA.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup provided a significant boost to the Los Angeles hotel market, with the city’s role as host to two U.S. group-stage matches helping generate some of the soccer tournament’s ...

The 2026 FIFA World Cup delivered a substantial boost to the San Francisco hotel market, but the tournament was not the only catalyst behind the city’s exceptional performance.

The Los Angeles hotel market exhibited a remarkably stable day-of-week performance pattern throughout 2025, with Friday and Saturday nights driving occupancy and revenue.

A year of hotel performance data shows Las Vegas balancing strong weekend leisure demand with convention-driven midweek business, creating one of the industry’s more resilient revenue models.

The San Francisco hotel market exhibited one of the clearest weekday-driven performance profiles among major U.S. cities during 2025. Unlike leisure-oriented destinations where Fridays and Saturdays ...

A comparison of day-of-week hotel performance in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and San Francisco across full-year 2025 highlights how three major hotel markets can generate revenue through fundamentally ...

Las Vegas hotels experienced one of the most dramatic pricing expansions in the U.S. lodging industry over the past two decades, with average daily rate growth overwhelmingly driving the market’s ...

Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy, or C-PACE, financing has become one of the most discussed tools in hotel finance, not because owners suddenly became more sustainability focused, but ...

The hotel industry is reaching a turning point in how it uses artificial intelligence, a shift highlighted at the Northwest Hotel Investment Forum’s spring meeting in the Seattle area, where AI was ...

A full-service hotel can operate above 70% occupancy and still struggle to generate meaningful profit.

A limited-service hotel can run at lower occupancy levels and still generate meaningful gross operating profit margins, or GOP margins.

Gross operating margins across major U.S. hotel markets continue to reflect an uneven recovery pattern, with 2025 results highlighting a growing divide between top-performing cities and those still ...

Labor costs have become the fault line dividing hotel markets that are rebuilding margins from those still stuck in a post-pandemic cost squeeze.

Speakers at the 2026 CREJ Hotel Summit & Expo affirmed that the U.S. lodging sector has moved beyond uncertainty and into a more disciplined phase of the cycle.

Demand for short‑term rentals, or STRs, now capture about 18% of hotel demand nationwide, though their presence across major U.S. markets varies widely based on local conditions.

A comparison of relative performance indices for hotels and short‑term rentals, or STRs, across major U.S. cities underscores how differently the two lodging models monetize demand.

Short-term rentals, or STRs, have captured a steadily growing share of U.S. lodging demand since 2019, but while their national footprint has expanded, their impact on hotels remains uneven across ...

Los Angeles full-service hotel performance is increasingly shaped by revenue mix and labor intensity rather than by scale alone. The data shows that profitability peaks in the upscale and ...

Hotel performance across major U.S. markets continues to show that strong demand and high rates do not automatically translate into strong profitability. Labor remains a significant factor regarding ...