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Hotel industry executives showed subdued optimism at NYU Conference amid macro uncertainty and flat transaction growth expectations.

Hyatt launches new Unscripted brand with 40 hotels in talks. IHG sees total global conversion signings nearly doubling between 2023 and 2024.

Fliggy forecasts strong Dragon Boat Festival travel rebound while Accor transforms Shanghai's Peace Hotel into Raffles.

Over 300 million tourists traveled internationally in the first three months of 2025, a 5% rise from last year and 3% more than in pre-pandemic year 2019.

Pebblebrook has challenged the market value assessments that the city assigned to and used to collect taxes from a group of downtown hotels purchased by the REIT in 2018.

DoubleTree by Hilton has added 40 properties in the past year, including in Nice, Laos, the Azores Islands, and Malta. Meanwhile, Canada's hotel industry reported mixed year-over-year performance in April, plus other hotel news.

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%.

CBRE's April 2025 report shows short-term rentals gaining market share as Google travel searches decline, suggesting potential slowdown in 2025 travel demand.

Marriott, Hilton, Rosewood and other hotel groups announce property openings, renovations and investments worldwide.

Late last week, hotel REITs in the U.S. released an avalanche of earnings and investors were in a good mood again.