The beginning of a new year means its time to break out a new calendar and mark the important dates to watch, especially holidays or opportunities for travel. Hotel revenue managers were likely ...
It's difficult to make a plan when it's likely that plan will be upended.Learning from their experiences last year, hotel revenue and commercial strategy executives are preparing themselves for more ...
The field of hotel revenue management is a constantly evolving one, both through small steps and incredible leaps.The practice itself is changing, with more and more hotel companies adopting ...
It's time to unveil the 2025 CoStar News Hotels wrapped, podcast edition.Below are the top episodes of the year from each show of the CoStar News Hotels podcast network. Click each story to read more ...
Nothing will determine the success or failure of commercial strategy teams at hotels more than their ability to foster and retain talent, said Horwath HTL Managing Director Dorothy Dowling.Speaking ...
Over the weekend, FIFA released the schedule for the group stage of the 2026 World Cup, setting the stage for hoteliers in each of the 16 North American host markets to start their planning for the ...
The hype surrounding FIFA World Cup 26 is palpable. It's the biggest iteration of the tournament in its near 100-year history, and it will be spread out between 16 North American markets. While hotel ...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Even though 2025 has proven to be a more challenging year than expected, hotel companies such as Olympia Hospitality continue to move forward.In a video interview at the recent ...
A weak summer lead into a difficult budget season for hoteliers, and CoStar News Hotels podcasts dove into those topics and many others in recent months.Here are some highlights from the past month ...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — A familiar buzzword in the hotel industry from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic has returned: uncertainty. Andrea Martin, director of revenue management at the Margaritaville ...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Hoteliers entered 2025 with a certain level of optimism that hotel performance would not just improve over last year but be strong. Although it started that way in the first ...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — If there's one thing hoteliers can do to drive growth for their commercial strategy, it's prioritize and incentivize teamwork across revenue management, sales and ...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — The shift from group demand being a driver of growth for hotels to an area of softness has been difficult for hoteliers to navigate this year as leisure demand also weakened, ...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — During challenging times, small wins make a big difference to your bottom line. At least, that's one thing Stonebridge Companies' Chris Cheney is seeing amid top-line ...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Hotel leisure demand is full of wild swings, none more so than during major events that lead to a lot of hotel bookings and busy weekends for hoteliers.Especially as people ...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — The demands on hotel revenue managers have grown even over the past five years, with guest behavior changing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and technology such as ...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Guests are increasingly craving unique experiences out of their hotel stays, whether that comes in the form of a one-in-a-kind property or offerings that are specific to that ...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Guest booking behaviors are no longer what they used to be. Pandemic- and recovery-era patterns have merged with current economic trends to make a revenue manager's job more ...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — This current budgeting season is likely not a fun one for many hotel revenue managers.Stuck between demanding hotel owners and a complicated macro-economic environment, revenue ...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Hotel revenue managers have a lot to feel proud of even amid a difficult demand environment, said Sage Hospitality Group Senior Vice President of Sales, Revenue and ...