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Tuesday brought STR and Tourism Economics raising the 2026 U.S. RevPAR forecast to 4.4% on World Cup premiums while USTA, A4A, and AHLA jointly warned Congress a September shutdown could cost $1 billion weekly and disrupt six million travelers, a World Panel viewpoint on why hospitality must move from double to triple materiality in sustainability reporting, and Milestone's six-stage framework for winning the AI hotel recommendation layer from discovery through agentic booking. APAC's divergent H1 results, after-hours booking loss, and four property announcements rounded out the session.
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