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U.S. Hotel Industry Sees 14.2% RevPAR Growth, Orlando Leads Occupancy Rise Among Top 25 Markets

🏨 U.S. hotel industry saw notable improvements from September 20-26, 2026. Occupancy rose by 6.4%, reaching 69.7%. The average daily rate (ADR) increased 7.4% to $179.43, while revenue per available room (RevPAR) jumped 14.2% to $125.06. Orlando led with an occupancy boost of 18.6%, Miami's ADR soared 19.8%, and San Francisco's RevPAR surged 35.1%. CoStar's data covers 95,000 properties with 12.2 million rooms globally.

Innovation

#210: Middlemen

This article was written by Mauricio Prieto. Click here to read the original article Technology is supposed to kill middlemen, but travel keeps replacing one with another. A smaller plane can skip the hub. An AI agent can skip the OTA. But someone in the middle still has to aggregate the supply, take the payment and fix things when they go wrong. Some of the stories in this edition look at what happens when the middle gets squeezed. Special thanks to Travel Trends Summit for sponsoring…

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