U.S. Hotel Rates Buck Inflation Trend With Year-End Decline

Karim Alibhai knows better than most how to make luxury hotels profitable. He’s the founder and top boss of Gencom, which has owned, part-owned, or developed 8 Ritz-Carltons and 150 hotels under other brands over three decades.

Marriott and Hilton joined all the major hotel groups this week in providing updates on their hotel development pipelines as they gathered at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS) in Los Angeles.

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Expedia CEO Peter Kern pled his case to hotel owners Monday: Take seriously the billion-dollar issue of wholesale rates being misused online.

Global hotel dealmaking will speed up in 2024 thanks to a more positive financing environment, exceeding 2023’s unusually low level by 15% to 25%.

Hilton said on Monday it had launched a program to match aspiring hotel owners with capital.

Sam Nazarian’s SBE is returning to the hotel business: It said Monday it was planning to offer new “smart lifestyle” hotels as part of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts’s Registry Collection, a soft brand.

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