U.S. hotel RevPAR was down by -0.1% year over year in April. The Easter shift, geopolitical/tariff impact, were blamed for the sluggish month. Group RevPAR was down -2%.
Hilton announced LivSmart Studios by Hilton is the official name of its new studio apartment-style, extended-stay hotel brand. LivSmart Studios already has more that 350 deals in various stages of negotiation.
The DJIA was up 338 points while Nasdaq was up 97, the S&P 500 was up 42 points, while the 10-year treasury yield was down nearly .02 to 4.00%.
Evercore ISI Group upped its rating on DiamondRock Hospitality to Outperform from In-Line.
US Travel’s latest Business Travel Tracker finds American companies increasingly paring back pandemic-era restrictions on business travel
