Market Trends

🏡 Miiro launched Templeton Garden in London's Earl's Court, marking its UK debut and fourth European location after Paris, Barcelona, and Gstaad. The five-storey hotel offers 156 rooms and suites, three F&B outlets—Sprout bar, 62-cover Pippin's restaurant, and Pip's café/deli—and boasts amenities like a 24-hour gym and a guest-only library. CEO Neena Gupta and General Manager Nicola James highlighted the new hotel's potential to integrate with the local community. Miiro plans further European expansion in 2025.

🏠 Hilton expands in Italy with Canopy by Hilton Milan Duomo and Hilton Garden Inn Rome Colosseum. Opening later this year, Canopy by Hilton will be the first in Italy, located in Milan with 96 rooms, featuring a restaurant, bars, pools, and fitness facilities; it's near landmarks like the Duomo di Milano (

🏠 Wellness tourism expected to hit $1.3 trillion by 2025, with wellness travelers spending 53% more than average tourists. Top destinations include Bali, Costa Rica, Japan, India, and Thailand. Hotels can capitalize on this trend by creating a wellness identity, partnering with local practitioners, becoming mediators for health tourism, hosting micro wellness events, and showcasing guest wellness stories. Packages like Weekend Wellness Escapes and Sleep Tourism are trending.

🏡 In San Francisco, April 15, 2025, Hospitable's research indicates 79.7% of independent short-term rental (STR) hosts prefer not hiring property management companies (PMCs) for the next year. High PMC costs (82.2%) and the desire for direct control (58.4%) are major reasons. Over one in eight hosts returned to self-management due to dissatisfaction, aiming for greater guest interaction control (63.7%) and higher profitability (54.7%). Technology is a key enabler, with 96.8% of hosts considering it essential. Hospitable, founded in 2016, empowers hosts with tools for automation, including AI-powered messaging, team notifications, and synchronized calendars. The survey for 'The Evolving STR Landscape' report included 566 hosts and managers and was conducted in Q1 2025.

🏨 Hospitality ON has compiled a non-exhaustive list of new hotels opened globally in the last 10 days, including those belonging to groups and chains. The map indicates openings in yellow, future openings announced in blue, rebrandings in green, and newly signed projects in orange. The list provides locations, photos, and essential details about each hotel.

🏨 - Tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico have recently been partially reversed. - US hotel industry impacted by both the tariffs and the surrounding rhetoric. - Construction and renovation costs could increase, potentially elongating projects. - US rooms in construction have ranged between 150,000 and 160,000 for over three years. - Last year's supply percent change was 0.6%, below the long-term average of 1.7%. - Property Improvement Plans (PIPs) may be delayed or scaled back due to higher costs. - Canadian air inbound to the US dropped by 6-7% in March. - The World Cup will be in Spain, Portugal, and Morocco in 2030. - Hotel owners and operators are advised to focus on differentiation and service quality rather than lowering rates. - The conversation between hotel brands and owners is key to navigating brand standards and financial pressures. - Some investment funds are coming to an end and may put properties on the market. - San Francisco's hotel market is showing signs of recovery. - Data from CoStar and STR is used to inform operational strategies. - The Hotel Data Conference in Nashville is an annual event for hotel data enthusiasts. - The i92-APIS dataset from the Department of Commerce provides international travel counts. In the US hotel industry, fluctuating tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods impact construction and renovation costs, while rhetoric affects service delivery. With 150,000-160,000 rooms in construction consistently

🏖️ Fliggy, a Chinese online travel platform, disclosed trends from the Chinese Spring Festival and Qingming festival, highlighting a surge in luxury getaways, domestic flights, and hotel bookings. 4- and 5-star hotels saw the fastest growth. Popular destinations included Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, along with outbound favorites like Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong SAR, Thailand, and Singapore. Austria, Hungary, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Denmark, Uzbekistan, Norway, Georgia, Germany, and Brazil experienced rapid booking increases. Notably, outbound bookings for departures 2 days before holidays rose 20% year-on-year; overseas attraction tickets went up by 56%, international cruises by 172%, and international train tickets by 293%. Domestic car rentals increased by 33%, with train ticket bookings soaring over 200%. Traveler spending grew by almost 5% year-on-year, and car rental duration averaged 3.1 days, up 41% year-on-year. Fliggy's Vice President Zhang Chen anticipates the demand for nature-centric getaways to continue throughout the year.

📈 Realytics, specializing in customer experience (CX) and operational metrics, identifies top-performing brands' key traits: staff training, menu consistency, and quality service. These factors drive growth, enabling store expansion and increased foot traffic. Realytics offers benchmarking against competitors, highlighting crucial CX elements for success. A semifinalist at MURTEC 2025, Realytics provides data-driven strategies to improve guest loyalty and profitability. Their report, "CX Leaders and Laggards 2020–2024," details these findings for the restaurant industry.

🍴 Bret Thorn, Senior Food & Beverage Editor, reports on food & beverage trends for Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality since 1999, also hosting a podcast. He wrote for The New York Sun from 2005 to 2008 and worked in Thailand for Manager magazine and Asia Times from 1992 to 1997. Thorn, a magna cum laude Tufts University graduate and Phi Beta Kappa member, studied French cuisine at Le Cordon Bleu and Chinese language and culture at Nanjing and Beijing Universities. He won the 2006 Jesse H. Neal Award and joined the Disciples d’Escoffier in 2014.