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Golden Week gave Thailand its first real sign that Chinese travelers were coming back. Now a single embassy advisory has put that at risk, and Lunar New Year 2027, coming in early February, will show whether the damage is a dip or something more prolonged.
Marriott said that its talks with hotel owners who want a bigger cut of the pie have been "constructive." It's easier for everyone to stay polite about the fee math when profit growth has revived significantly.
When hotel giants keep stacking sub-brands and “brands of brands,” they eventually run out of words. Expect more naming collisions as the industry’s label factory keeps humming.
Sustainability is increasingly tied to hotel performance, from operating costs and asset value to guest experience and talent. Accor’s Coline Pont explains how the company’s new Hosting Change strategy aims to turn those connections into measurable value.
When affluent travelers spend, Hyatt wins. The catch is that a portfolio built on luxury leisure is a bet on the wealth effect, and the good times could end if the stock market sneezes.
Higher transportation costs appear to be squeezing Las Vegas hotels’ pricing power. Yet convention business has helped offset weaker leisure demand in some months
Egypt’s hotel pipeline already matches its new pitch, with nearly 90% of planned rooms upscale or luxury. The harder part to deliver is the rest of a premium trip — the best Nile vessels, guides and transport — which already sell out well in advance.
Paid loyalty is gaining traction in Asia Pacific, where subscriptions are already a habit. Accor is treating its 485,000-member program as a revenue channel, not a discount scheme. The real test is renewals, and those are only now arriving in volume.
A new pact between MGM Resorts and Barry Diller's People Inc. effectively ends merger talks. It's uncertain who else might want to buy an operator whose Las Vegas resorts have been sliding for two years.
Marriott is cutting corporate jobs, not hotel staff, in a global restructuring. Some affected workers may land newly posted roles, it says.
Saudi Arabia is shrinking giga project budgets on Riyadh’s event deadlines. Hotel developers are still building as if the old plan held, with pipelines up and skewed to luxury. That mismatch, plus cost inflation and security risk, is the bigger story for owners and brands.
The parent company of the Best Western family of hotels has decided to rename itself WorldHotels to appeal to a broader range of travelers. Its toughest audience may be its own members.
Sunday PropTech is buying an established European hotel operator with a long record of acquisitions. But Fletcher’s financials reveal that most of its profits come from government accommodation, even as earnings fall and borrowing costs rise.
TKO wants to buy a hotel portfolio roughly four times the size of its own. Service Properties Trust hasn't responded. TKO CEO Jim Koehler believes renovations will boost performance.
Radisson’s net zero push is moving from hotels it leases to hotels it manages. In South Africa, the hardest part wasn’t the building investments but buying the necessary renewable power.
Travelers in the region are adapting to conflict rather than retreating from it, with flexible fares in demand and, for some, shorter booking windows.
Luxury hotels that rely on long-haul, high spending guests have been hit by Middle East unrest while their budget and midscale counterparts have fared better with a broader mix of arrivals.
With 41% of travelers still price-checking after they book, the hotel and flight reservations are now only one part of a longer, more dynamic — and more provisional — process.
The Super 8 and La Quinta franchiser is opening its inventory to Meta's Muse, OpenAI, and Instinct. Morgan Stanley analysts think AI agents could cost hotel groups less per booking than online travel agencies do.
Accor is guiding to a flat fourth quarter globally, partly out of caution after France's recent riots and uncertainty about wars in the Middle East.
