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About this episode

The episode discusses rising hotel demand in the U.S. and related trends as the first quarter ends.

Podcast hosts Isaac Collazo from STR, Jan Freitag from CoStar and Stephanie Ricca from CoStar News dive into the data showing rising hotel demand in the U.S. across all chain scales. The hosts also talk group demand trends and the global headwinds affecting travel as the first quarter approaches its close.

People in this episode

Hosts: Isaac Collazo, Jan Freitag, Stephanie Ricca

Topics covered

• hotel demand
• group demand trends
• global headwinds
• travel
• data analysis

Keywords

• hotel demand
• STR
• CoStar
• travel trends
• data analysis
• group demand
• global headwinds

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: STR, CoStar, CoStar News

Places: U.S.

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