A Hotels.com survey of 1,000 Canadian business travellers finds free breakfast is the top hotel perk, 53% adopt a different work personality on trips, and September is the busiest travel month.
GSA will raise the standard continental U.S. lodging per diem to $113/day starting Oct. 1, 2026, a $3 increase, while meal allowances hold at $68/day.
U.S. hotels posted their 20th straight week of year-over-year gains, with RevPAR up 1.7% to $100.69; San Francisco led Top 25 Markets on Pokémon World Championships demand.
Equinox Hotel New York's third annual Global Sleep Symposium featured sleep scientists and performance experts, with key takeaways for hoteliers on how better sleep directly drives guest satisfaction and financial performance.
A Conrad New York Downtown executive outlines how sustainability drives competitive advantage through guest amenities, rooftop farming, community partnerships, and ESG data reporting via Hilton's LightStay platform.
Blue Flag Capital, in partnership with in-house management company Collared Martin Hospitality, announces the opening of Oyster Estate, a reimagined 34-key boutique hotel in the heart of Greenport Village. Debuting as Blue Flag Capital’s third hotel on Long Island’s East End, Oyster Estate welcomes guests today with the opening of its guestrooms, public spaces, and courtyard pool. Fortune Favors, the property’s signature cocktail-forward dining destination, will follow later in September, completing the hotel’s food and beverage offering and social experience.
HVS analysis finds St. Louis hotel market regaining strength through 2026-2027, driven by convention center upgrades, defense industry expansion, and over $7B in downtown and infrastructure development.
Toronto's 52-room Pembroke Inn cut OTA bookings from nearly 100% to 10-15% using Cloudbeds digital marketing tools, generating $263,000 in attributed revenue and saving an estimated $60-70K in monthly high-season OTA fees.
Basecamp Resorts founder Sky Mitchell shares her journey from being fired after 27 days to building a $600M hospitality brand, covering capital raising, team building, and sustainability.
With LA28 approaching, hotel owners face tightening timelines for renovation projects as labor, procurement, and permitting pressures intensify ahead of the 2028 deadline.
Mountain Shore Properties today announces the opening of Hill Hall Hotel, a 40-room boutique hotel in downtown Fayetteville. A member of Design Hotels™, part of Marriott Bonvoy®, Hill Hall Hotel is set within the town's former high school and middle school buildings near New River Gorge National Park. The historic campus was extensively restored and reimagined, pairing preserved school architecture with warm, residential interiors, transforming into a gathering place for travelers and local residents alike.
Sue Decker will not seek reelection at Vail Resorts' 2026 Annual Meeting after 11 years, with the board shrinking to nine members before a new independent director search targets a return to ten in early 2027.
Crowne Plaza by IHG, one of the world’s largest premium hotel brands and a pioneer in blended travel, today announced the opening of Crowne Plaza Manhattan Times Square, its new Americas flagship property. Situated in the heart of one of the world’s leading business and cultural capitals, the hotel serves as a powerful expression of Crowne Plaza’s reimagined premium stay experience, reinforcing its position at the forefront of hospitality for today’s blended traveler who combines business, leisure and personal time within a single journey. With half of its global estate now new or recently renovated, Crowne Plaza Manhattan Times Square represents the latest milestone in the brand’s transformation of its estate.
U.S. Travel CEO Geoff Freeman, after a White House meeting with President Trump, calls for a target of 100M international visitors annually by 2030, projecting $81B in additional spending and 400,000+ jobs.
Today, Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa announced plans to reimagine the Borgata Tower, introducing a refreshed experience across all guestrooms and suites, guestroom corridors and the tower’s main lobby, known as The Living Room. The $107 million project is scheduled to begin Sept. 13, with newly renovated guestrooms becoming available on a floor-by-floor basis beginning in October 2026.
HSMAI's Washington D.C. chapter hosts a $55–$75 half-day workshop on Sept. 10 covering hotel marketing fundamentals, demand generation, and commercial strategy using the CHDM credential as a framework.
After years of sitting on the buying side of these conversations, five things matter most to me. First, prove you understand hotel operations. Not in theory, but in how your solution performs at 2 a.m. when a system goes down and guests are waiting at the front desk.
Operational fit, clean integration, solid data protection, and measurable value across our properties and markets — that's the minimum expectation. Beyond those fundamentals, here's what, in my view, signposts the start of a genuine partnership: Show us the product.
From our perspective, before we seriously consider a technology vendor, we expect the vendor to demonstrate the following: Clear understanding of hotel operations and the business problem being solved.The solution must address a defined operational, commercial, guest-experience, or compliance challenge.
JD Power's 2026 benchmark shows overall guest satisfaction at third-party managed branded hotels rose 14 points to 696, with Columbia Sussex, Crestline, and Driftwood topping the rankings.
Omni's Say Goodnight to Hunger campaign will double meal donations to Feeding America for every stay in September, surpassing 30 million total meals since launching in 2016.
Sonesta International Hotels Corporation (Sonesta) today announced the opening of Red Lion Hotel Rogue Regency Medford Airport. This 203-room, midscale select-service hotel is located at 2300 Biddle Road in Medford, Oregon. The hotel is just 1.5 miles from the Rogue Valley International Medford Airport, convenient for travelers flying in and out of Jackson County.