Market Trends

Moderator: Jon Peck, President of Peck Hotel Consulting, and Cayuga Hospitality Consultant

Veterans Day falling on a Tuesday, compared with Monday last year, slowed U.S. travel. Revenue per available room (RevPAR) for the week ending 15 November fell 4.6% on declining occupancy (-2.6 percentage points, ppts). Average daily rate (ADR) was also down (-0.5%), which was the industry’s first decrease since the week ending of 25 October.

Investors have read the situation correctly. In a turbulent real estate market, hotel assets still stand tall — in fact, they outperform. Week after week, I see it clearly on the ground. Ambition on one side, caution on the other, yet a shared conclusion: hospitality outshines other asset classes.

Attending 2025 NYU International Hospitality Investment Forum (IHIF) in early June in New York, one common remark amongst keynotes and panelists was to point to the huge growth of loyalty program membership numbers for the big chains as being synonymous with the growth of ‘actual’ loyalty (we’ll get to what actual means later).

A prolonged slowdown highlights soft demand and challenges ahead for major markets Nov 24, 2025 U.S. hotel performance weakened again in October, marking the eighth consecutive month of year-over-year occupancy…

Hospitality has a trust crisis, and last week proved it. Last week, my post about the Sonder x Marriott fallout unexpectedly went viral. Almost 230,000 people saw it. Hundreds commented.…

Hosted by BHN editor Eloise Hanson Time: 14:00 – 15:00 BST Online | Free to attend What you will learn: The key criteria used to value independent hotels How operational…

UN Tourism has further strengthened the capacity of its Members across Asia and the Pacific to produce reliable, integrated, and policy-relevant tourism data.

This article was written by HospitalityOn. Click here to read the original article The hospitality asset class alone accounted for around 18% of total real estate investment activity in 2024.…

Hotelschool The Hague looks back on the successful delivery of EuroCHRIE 2025, the largest international conference in its history. From 10 to 13 November, the university of applied sciences welcomed more than 220 students, PhD candidates, researchers, lecturers, alumni and industry partners in hospitality and tourism to its campus in The Hague.