Articles tagged “hotels”

As wildfires grow more frequent and severe, insurers are no longer pricing risk by location alone — they’re underwriting based on how resilient a property is, pushing operators to firm up their hotels.

Selling your brand to a major group and staying on to run the hotels is an unusual move. A year in, the distribution lift is real. Whether Marriott can now grow CitizenM beyond its original backer is the open question.

Wyndham’s U.S. room count looks stable. What’s actually happening is a systematic swap — lower-fee economy hotels out, higher-fee midscale in.

Three of the world’s biggest hotel groups have launched debit cards in the UK and nowhere else. The reason has little to do with loyalty strategy.

The World Cup delivered real, rate-driven gains for hotels and short-term rentals. But the impact was barely noticed by U.S. airlines, and the international visitor boom is falling short of expectations.

Price-sensitivity is rising across markets, despite strong travel demand. While travelers continue to prioritize travel, they are increasingly selective in how they spend. Pricing strategies must evolve to capture demand, while addressing growing expectations of value from consumers.

Global travel demand is strong overall, but growth potential varies widely by market. Travel intent does not always guarantee growth: our five-dimension scorecard maps where it does, and where it falls short.

Mass-market operators built all-inclusive on price and volume. Ennismore is trying to prove its lifestyle brands can carry the format upmarket.

Sébastien Bazin left four or five doors open for Ennismore in June. He now looks to be walking through one.

The two companies tout 430 million loyalty members between them. The test is how many actually book.