Cornell Webinar: The View for 2022: Insights and Expectations for the U.S. Hotel Industry

After 20 months of upheaval, the U.S. hotel industry is eager to regain lost ground. Leisure travel has rebounded, COVID-19 vaccination rates are up, and unemployment is declining, yet corporate and group travel remain well below 2019's levels, and supply chain issues and inflation fears are real. Could 2022 be a turning point?

In this webcast, a panel of leading hospitality experts will discuss their expectations for next year from four important industry perspectives: hotel owner, hotel asset manager, benchmarking and data expert, and Wall Street lodging analyst. Steve Carvell, Arthur Adler '78 and Karen Newman Adler '78 Director of the Cornell University Center for Real Estate and Finance, and Professor of Finance in the Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration, will moderate this session and explore with panelists how the pandemic has reshaped the industry's investment landscape.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

• What leaders across multiple sectors of the hotel industry predict will happen in the coming year
• How the upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped decision making around hotel industry investments

SPEAKERS

• C. Patrick Scholes '94, managing director, Truist Securities
• Jan D. Freitag '97, director, CoStar Group
• Michael G. Medzigian '82, chairman and CEO, Watermark Lodging Trust Inc.
• Michelle Russo, CHAM, MAI, CHA '87, founder and CEO, Hotel Asset Value Enhancement
• Steven Carvell, professor of finance, and academic director of the Center for Real Estate and Finance, Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business