Stephanie Ricca

Could the U.S. hotel industry's slow pace of deals finally be speeding up?

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 ...

I typically dread traveling in March for one reason: spring break at the airport.

ATLANTA — On the second day of the 2026 Hunter Hotel Investment Conference, hoteliers on stage continued some of the optimistic sentiments from the first day while zooming in on market trends they ...

ATLANTA — Hotel executives speaking at the Hunter Hotel Investment Conference have been bullish on the transaction market in years past, but panelists at the 2026 event believe all of the stars are ...

Last week it was an operation to kill a Mexican cartel leader. This week it's a new war targeting Iran with retaliatory action happening across the Middle East and surrounding regions.

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

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts clawed growth in 2025 in ancillary revenue, hotel openings and its development pipeline, amid what CEO Geoff Ballotti called “a challenging year” of ...

It should have been so simple.

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 ...

The answer, of course, is Marriott International's September 2016 acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide — the hotel news sensation that captivated the nation (and the world) in the ...

My favorite part of January are all the trends lists popping up everywhere. This morning I heard that the culinary buzzword for 2026 will be "swangy," which is a portmanteau of "sweet and tangy." ...

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

I want to invite you all to join me in one of my favorite time-wasters, err ... guilty pleasures ... as we approach the end of a busy year — Hallmark holiday movies.

Travel buzzwords come and go, as do the trends behind them. In the latest episode of the CoStar News Hotels podcast, Hertelier Founder and Editor-in-Chief Emily Goldfischer identifies the travel ...

The buck stops here, right?

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.

I recently went on vacation with a good friend to Ireland for a week. We knew the basics of what we wanted to do — two different locations, a few specific destination recommendations — but we were ...

PHOENIX — Christian Charnaux was no stranger to Hilton when he took the company’s executive vice president and chief development officer role in July.

PHOENIX – Brand interest in all-inclusive hotels and resorts has been growing for several years, and recent moves in the space have opened up opportunities for third-party management companies to ...