Striking result from Freitag's point, counterpoint | By Jeff Higley

I’ve always looked at individuals in the hotel industry as an optimistic lot, always looking at the glass as half-full even as a global economy threatens to collapse right in front of them. But like teenagers watching a horror moving with one eye shut and clinging to anyone who happens to be in the vicinity, hoteliers appear to have a penchant to sometimes test the limits of their dark sides. That became pretty clear late last week. There was quite a surprise for us at HotelNewsNow.com when we looked at the readership patterns of two articles written by Jan Freitag, STR’s VP of business development. The articles addressed the two sides of the “Is the hotel industry in recovery mode?” argument.