A decent month, all things considered

About this episode

The episode discusses U.S. hotel performance data for October, the impact of the government shutdown, and the differences between luxury and ultra-luxury hotels.

There's always a story behind monthly U.S. hotel performance data and October was a perfect example of that, according to podcast hosts Isaac Collazo from STR and Jan Freitag from CoStar Group. Learn why the data show that the U.S. government shutdown really had no meaningful impact on hotel performance. And they unpack what sets ultra-luxury hotels apart from their luxury counterparts and why that matters so much. In this episode, Freitag refers to the CoStar News article A tale of two hotel segments: Luxury vs. ultra-luxury.

People in this episode

Hosts: Isaac Collazo, Jan Freitag

Topics covered

• U.S. hotel performance
• government shutdown impact
• luxury hotels
• ultra-luxury hotels
• hospitality data

Keywords

• hotel performance
• government shutdown
• luxury hotels
• ultra-luxury hotels
• hospitality data

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: STR, CoStar Group, CoStar News

Books & works: A tale of two hotel segments: Luxury vs. ultra-luxury

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