Articles tagged “choice hotels”

Travel management platform Engine has launched a new meeting room marketplace. For now, it functions mainly as a streamlined way to discover meeting spaces and send inquiries, with real-time booking still to come.

Marriott's dominance in hotel room count remains secure. But changing growth rates across the major hotel groups create shifting power dynamics.

Some U.S. companies say the decline in international visitors was hard to ignore in the third quarter. Recovery may hinge on the success of 2026 events.

Choice’s challenge underscores how U.S. economy hotels are struggling while international and upscale segments are proving more resilient.

Is the U.S. hotel sector entering a recession? Will other hotel groups join Hyatt in layoffs? These are some of the things that Skift is looking out for during earnings season.

Major chains tout hundreds of millions of members, but a new Skift metric reveals wild disparities in how they build their programs. Marriott, for instance, is in the middle of the rankings when measured by members per room.

For today’s pod, we look at Airbnb‘s updated experiences, Southwest new deal with Priceline, and Choice Hotels’ growth options.

International expansion is gaining ground at Choice, with full control in Canada and rising overseas openings. But its fortunes still depend heavily on the U.S.

Choice Hotels is now tracking all its emissions and testing new tech to cut them, but hasn’t set a net-zero goal as other hotel groups have done.

It turns out that, in a choppy economic environment, you get choppy hotel earnings reports.