The financial side of hotels: rate and RevPAR movement, quarterly earnings, asset sales, refinancing, franchise growth and development pipelines by market. Figures arrive with the comparison period attached. For owners, investors and operators who need the numbers before the narrative built around them.
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.
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.