Special Reports: Lodging

• Hotel Rates: Back to Business

  Despite rising costs and uncertain travel volumes, both corporate buyers and hoteliers seem ready to return to the negotiating table.

  Apr. 15, 2024

  

• Hotels 2024: From ‘New Normal’ to Just ‘Normal’?

  After years of turmoil, the lodging sector is learning which changes are likely to endure.

  Mar. 27, 2024

  

• Hotels: Making Sure ‘The Price is Right’

  Are travel buyers seeing hotel negotiations go from ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ to ‘Jeopardy’?

  Jan. 21, 2024

  

• Hotel Negotiations: Points of Departure

  Can your travelers’ loyalty to their hotel rewards translate to loyalty for your travel program?

  Nov. 21, 2023

  

• After RFP ‘Sunset,’ A New Dawn?

  The hotel rate landscape continues to shift, complicating the process of requesting proposals for lodging programs.

  Aug. 30, 2023

  

• Moving the BAR

  As demand returns, more hoteliers – and even many travel programs – are turning to dynamic pricing

  May. 9, 2023

  

• Hotels 2023: Uncertainties Ahead

  The outlook for the lodging industry? Still fuzzy after all these years

  Feb. 2, 2023

  

• Navigating a Less Accommodating Hotel Scene

  As demand recovers, hotel rates are rising. It’s a sellers’ market, so buyers need the right strategy to maximize their lodging programs

  Dec. 7, 2022

  

• Staying Strong

  As this summer’s travelnado fades, business travel programs are seeing hotel chaos give way to wisdom​

  Sep. 28, 2022

  

• Hotels: Negotiating the Way Forward

  Will the lodging RFP season 2022 be RTN (return to normal) or RTNN (return to new normal)?

  Jul. 16, 2022