LARC CEO Ryan Sloan breaks down Q1's surprise +3.8% RevPAR, a 23M-person swing in U.S. inbound travel, World Cup room-blocking fallout, and the markets to watch through 2026.
Shiji's Mexico market manager discusses hospitality trends and opportunities ahead of the upcoming FIFA World Cup tournament.
LARC CEO discusses how income inequality creates divergent demand patterns between luxury and budget hotels, with 2026 World Cup adding complexity to market forecasting.
In this week’s episode of the Hotel Moment podcast, we’re featuring an episode from our webinar series, Hotel Moment Deep Dive. Revinator Anisha Yadav, VP of Customer and Product Marketing, and Jennifer Hill, VP of Commercial Strategy at Kalibri Labs, review some of the latest data from the hospitality landscape, including key U.S. hotel demand trends, critical hotel performance metrics, and notable growth from specific booking channels.
The two leading women executives in hospitality discuss the critical Saudi traveller, the phenomenal growth of tourism in the region supported by data and how as the tourism industry booms in the region, it opens up a host of opportunities to set new benchmarks by challenging the status quo and bringing more women to the front.
In this episode, we break down our forward-looking, on-the-books market data for the fall season with our resident market experts Katie Moro and John Hach. We take a look at what hotel demand is actually looking like in the coming months, and what hoteliers need to be prepared for. What is market performance stacking up to previous years, what do hoteliers need to be acting on now to remain resilient, and what should the industry focus on to be profitable as we move through the rest of this year and beyond? Listen in to find out. If you want to see the data for yourself, you can get global and regional reports at our complimentary Market Insights Portal.
Hannah Smith is a Senior Consultant at STR (I am a huge geek/fan of STR from my hotel management days) and she was able to join me to discuss all the data and findings they are discovering over at STR! In this episode, you will hear us talk about what the road to recovery looks like, key things hotels are doing in order to get occupancy, short term and long term trends and the newest Q3 Updated Forecast! Go to the Slick Talk blog to see the PDF Data Deck that Hannah put together for all of you to see while you listen!