Finance & Accounting

Forecasts are Falling: It’s Time to Look Inward and Refine Your 2026 Plan

Forecasts are Falling: It’s Time to Look Inward and Refine Your 2026 Plan

The final U.S. hotel performance forecast of 2025 is in – and it’s not the news many hoped for. According to the latest from CoStar and Tourism Economics, both 2025 and 2026 projections have again been downgraded across occupancy, ADR, and RevPAR, s...

Rob Lawrence

CEO

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Forecasts are Falling: It’s Time to Look Inward and Refine Your 2026 Plan

How the USALI 12th Revised Edition Enhances Hotel Benchmarking and Drives Hotel Performance

Questions are commonplace in any hotel business. Who hasn’t been in a budget meeting or financial review when someone has asked if the food and beverage margins are competitive, or if the spa department should be generating more revenue, or how labo...

Arlene Ramirez

Senior Vice President of Learning, HFTP

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Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP)

2025 Lodging Tax Report - USA

Since room sales generate lodging tax revenues, an overview of hotel market trends provides insight into the industry’s current and future fiscal impacts. As documented in our 2024 HVS Lodging Tax Study, the national lodging market has experienced r...

Thomas A. Hazinski

Thomas A. Hazinski

Managing Director of HVS Convention, Sports, & Entertainment Facilities Consulting in Chicago

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Lodging Industry

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HVS

How Hoteliers are Moving from Green Screens to Guided Insights

How Hoteliers are Moving from Green Screens to Guided Insights

Hotel tech looks simple from the lobby; but as we know, behind the front desk it’s anything but. Recently, Otelier’s Distinguished Architect Lex Raleigh sat down with SnapLogic CMO Dayle Hall to explain why hospitality’s data problem is unlike any o...

Jason Q. Freed

Hospitality Data Evangelist

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Chatbots, Robotics & AI

How Hoteliers are Moving from Green Screens to Guided Insights

Is your hotel demand forecast stuck in the past? Why relying on historical data could be costing you money

Here’s the core truth: sole reliance on internal historical data represents a fragile forecasting strategy in such a dynamic environment, which can hinder your profitability.

Jonathan Gough

Content Team Lead at Lighthouse

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Revenue Management

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Finance & Accounting

Lighthouse

Begin With The End In Mind – Creating a Financially Engaged Leadership Team In Your Hotel

Begin With The End In Mind – Creating a Financially Engaged Leadership Team In Your Hotel

Creating a financially engaged leadership team in your hotel is no different from creating a strong guest service culture or a team that has colleague and leader engagement as their mission. What you attend to grows, it’s that simple. What’s differe...

David Lund

The Hotel Financial Coach

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Finance & Accounting

Begin With The End In Mind – Creating a Financially Engaged Leadership Team In Your Hotel

2025/26 Federal Per-Diem Update: Steady Rates Ahead

The federal government per-diem rate is made up of a lodging allowance and a meals and incidental expense (M&IE) allowance. The per-diem lodging rates, which set the maximum amount a federal traveler can reimburse, are based on the average rates for...

Chelsey Leffet

Managing Director, Northeast Leader, HVS

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National & International Policy

HVS

The Hidden Cost of Manual Accounting in Hospitality

The Hidden Cost of Manual Accounting in Hospitality

Manual accounting may seem like a manageable process—especially for small hospitality operations—but the reality is far more costly than it appears on the surface. From labor-intensive data entry to delayed financial insights, manual systems create ...

Jon Giuliani

Chief Revenue Officer at Ximplifi

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Information Technology

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The Hidden Cost of Manual Accounting in Hospitality

Budgeting for 2026: A Strategic Approach for Hoteliers

Budgeting for 2026: A Strategic Approach for Hoteliers

Budget season isn’t just about numbers—it’s about vision. As a hotel finance executive, I have found that success in 2026 will come down to discipline, collaboration, and clarity. Hoteliers face a marketplace defined by uncertainty: shifting demand ...

Paul Isaacson

Chief Financial Officer

Hospitality America

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Lodging Industry

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Management Companies

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Budgeting for 2026: A Strategic Approach for Hoteliers

Budgeting for Experiential Tech in 2026: Why Hoteliers Cannot Afford to Wait

Budgeting for Experiential Tech in 2026: Why Hoteliers Cannot Afford to Wait

As summer winds down and the robust vacation season slows, it’s time for resort and venue operators to shift gears and ramp up for budget season. Fall offers the perfect opportunity to take a step back, evaluate what worked, what didn’t, and new opp...

Brad Van Orsow

Director of Marketing at UrVenue

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Market Segments

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Guest Experience

Budgeting for Experiential Tech in 2026: Why Hoteliers Cannot Afford to Wait