Hotel Brands Circle Student Housing: 4 Income Streams
The appeal is in diversifying across multiple income streams: students, extended-stay, traditional brief hotel stays, and coworking.
Sean O’Neill is Skift’s Senior Hospitality Editor. Sean’s forte is reporting, and he’s broken multiple hotel industry scoops. He has also conducted 1:1 interviews on stage with the CEOs of Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Hyatt, and Wyndham.
Hilton’s Chris Nassetta: Why 28 Brands Aren’t Too Many and the ‘Bazillion Points’ Problem
Hilton CEO Chris Nassetta defended the company's need for 28 brands as a data-driven strategy rather than sprawl, while also pointing to AI as the next lever for fixing guest problems in the moment.
Travel + Leisure Buys Into Maui and Hilton Head in $343 Million Deal
The timeshare secret runs best on people who already said yes. So when it gets harder to land first-time buyers, buy someone else's customers.
Scandic’s Dalata Deal Template Comes for Europe’s Mid-Cap Hotels
Trading below your own bricks is an open invitation for financial interventions. For PPHE, Whitbread, and Meliá, the question is whether they're targets after Scandic's Dalata deal.
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About Hilton’s Navan Deal
Hilton's direct reservation link with Navan may be hospitality's opening move toward Amazon-style brand merchandising in corporate travel.
This Obscure Marriott Fee Will Be a Key Signal of Profit Strength
Another quarter of strong incentive management fees would signal that hotel profit strength is broadening.
Fattal Buys Its First U.S. Hotel, Testing an Asset-Heavy Model Against the Giants
The owner-operator of nearly 330 hotels is betting that its owner-operator model will win in the U.S. market, where other foreign entrants have stumbled.
Hilton Opens Direct Line to Navan, Cutting Out Corporate Travel Middlemen
Hilton and Navan have launched a direct booking connection that skips distribution middlemen, giving the hotel group more control over retailing. It's an early step in a broader corporate travel push to overhaul how road warriors book hotels.
Extended-Stay Demand Hits a Four-Year High as Supply Pipeline Thins
Demand is up 6%, occupancy is a fat 77%, and the pipeline is thinning. That may be a textbook setup for pricing power.
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World Cup Boosts Hotel Rates
Host cities are seeing revenue surges on game days through higher room rates, defying World Cup doomsayers.