Hospitality
Housekeeping on request: what opt-out programs do to labor cost
Skipping the daily clean saves minutes per room — whether those minutes become money depends entirely on scheduling, and the guest-exposure risk is real.
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Openings
The hotel ramp-up curve: how new properties reach stabilized performance
New hotels don't open at full strength. Research on thousands of U.S. openings shows how long the climb to stabilized occupancy and RevPAR actually takes, and why brand affiliation shortens it.
Hotels
Housekeeping on request: what opt-out cleaning actually does to a hotel's labor line
Most hotels now clean occupied rooms only when a guest asks. AHLA data shows why guests accepted it — and operators are still working out what it costs and saves.
Hospitality News
GOPPAR explained: the profit metric operators track when RevPAR isn't enough
Gross operating profit per available room isolates what management actually controls. Here is how it is calculated, how it diverges from RevPAR, and what recent data shows about the gap between the two.
Hospitality
USALI's 12th edition brings mandatory payroll and distribution reporting to hotels
The accounting standard's new payroll, distribution-channel and sustainability schedules became mandatory in January, changing what finance teams have to track and disclose.
Guests
Booking an accessible room: what federal law actually requires of hotels
A 2010 regulation reaches into booking engines and front-desk procedure, not just building codes. Here is what hotels must do for guests who need mobility, hearing or vision accommodations.
Design
Office-to-hotel conversion: what the cost data actually shows
CBRE puts the price of turning a vacant office building into hotel rooms at $250 to $650 a square foot, well under ground-up construction in some cases, but CBRE's own hotels team says the same buildings routinely blow past that range.
Hospitality News
Hilton's pipeline nears half a million rooms as conversions grow
The company's development backlog hit a record at the end of 2024 — and the share of it coming from conversions rather than new builds is the operator story.
Business News
Lodging manager pay tops $68,000 as hotel hiring pipeline tightens, BLS finds
Federal wage data show a narrow, aging pool of career hotel managers commanding steady pay growth — a staffing math problem operators will be pricing into budgets for the next decade.
travel-news
Europe's summer 2026 demand shifted north, and September is the fastest-growing booking month
Forward bookings for European summer 2026 run ahead of last year — July +5.3%, August +5.4%, September +9.6% — with demand shifting toward Northern Europe, per AirDNA's June 2026 review, while CoStar forecasts European ADR up 0.9% for the year.
hospitality-news
World Cup weeks lifted July occupancy to 67.6%, with New York the standout market
Weekly STR/CoStar data put US occupancy at 67.6% in the week ended July 11, up from 63.5% the prior week, as FIFA World Cup demand peaked — with New York City posting the sharpest RevPAR gains among major markets.
hotels
The business traveler's room: what actually matters on a work trip
Fast check-in, a real desk, dependable WiFi, breakfast that fits an 8 a.m. start, and a receipt that survives an expense report — the business stay is decided by friction, not by thread count.
sustainability
Building performance standards put a price on hotel carbon: LL97 first, more cities behind
New York's Local Law 97 fines covered buildings $268 per metric ton of CO2-equivalent above their cap, and Boston, Denver, and Washington's performance rules push the same direction — turning hotel energy strategy into a compliance line.