Compared to pre-pandemic levels, hotel development costs have increased between 15% and 23%.
For every 10 jobs that exist in leisure and hospitality, there’s a job opening with hotel employment in the U.S. 20% below where it was pre-pandemic.
Big corporate travel-management companies are hovering around 50% of 2019 booking levels, much of which is due to the lack of international travel.
U.S. merchants paid card issuers an estimated $55.4 billion in Visa and Mastercard credit-card interchange fees in 2021, more than double the amount in 2012.
For 2021, extended stay chains ran at an average occupancy of 73%, as other business-oriented hotels recovered much slower averaging less than 60% occupancy.
Realty Income Corp. is making the real estate investment trust’s first foray into hotels and gaming with a $1.7 billion sale-leaseback deal for Wynn Resorts’ Encore Boston Harbor Resort Casino.
For the Super Bowl, analysts anticipate near-record average daily room rates of $445. Occupancy is expected to reach 89% and REVPAR is forecast near $400 a night. If those projections prove accurate, Los Angeles would notch the second-highest average-daily room rates on record for Super Bowl host cities, after Miami in 2020.