Jan Freitag

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 ...

Hotel performance across several Gulf countries surged sharply after the U.S. and Israel struck key military targets in Iran on February 28. Weekly hotel occupancy levels increased in many Gulf ...

The areas where developers added the most hotel rooms over the last five years were not in states with the fastest population growth, but rather in locations that steadily attract tourists.

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

Sales of U.S. hotel properties edged up in 2025, rising 6.7% year-over-year to reach a total of $24.2 billion.

Across the country, 29 large artificial intelligence infrastructure projects are in development.

After a strong start to 2025, demand for hotels from groups, defined as rooms sold in blocks of 10 or more, fell for nine straight months, a pattern that points to the lingering uncertainty felt ...

A challenging financing environment for developers has led to fewer hotel rooms being built, meaning future supply growth will remain muted in the U.S.

The U.S. hotel industry continued to show a clear performance divide across property classes in 2025.

The Canadian hotel industry turned in a strong performance in 2025, though the year's overall stability masks significant month‑to‑month variation.

Performance results for the U.S. hotel industry in 2025 fell short of expectations. Revenue per available room, or RevPAR, slipped 0.3%, driven by a 1.2% drop in occupancy as room demand dipped below ...

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 ...

International air travel to the U.S. declined in almost every month of 2025 as the new administration adopted more stringent enforcement on border crossings and global economic uncertainty prompted ...

The U.S. hotel industry is facing a worker shortage, and owners and operators are reacting by increasing hourly wages.

As we start 2026, here are a few hotel industry predictions for the year ahead.

The U.S. hotel industry is facing another year of limited options for increasing the average daily rate, or ADR, with the current forecast calling for an average gain of just 1%, well below the ...

The throughline to all U.S. hotel performance data this year? There's always more to the story.

Nearly six years after the pandemic, the recovery in the U.S. hotel industry’s occupancy level remains partial and uneven.

In a notable hotel development trend, new luxury hotels are increasingly offering for-sale units, essentially condominiums, alongside regular rooms for rent. In some cases, the number of for-sale ...

Despite travel hassles and some local challenges, the U.S. government shutdown didn't ding overall hotel performance in October in a significant way, according to CoStar data.