Hyatt Hotel Corp. said it would acquire Dream Hotel Group’s lifestyle hotel brands, including Dream Hotels, The Chatwal Hotels, and Unscripted Hotels. Hyatt would spend $125 million for the Dream Hotel Group’s dozen open hotels, with more than 1,700 guest rooms worldwide.

San Francisco airport took first place in The Wall Street Journal’s first ranking of the country’s busiest airports since 2019. Atlanta and Minneapolis filled out the top three.

The cleaning fees that customers of Airbnb Inc. have long complained about will soon become more apparent early in searches for lodging. Starting in December, the company will allow guests to filter their search results by the total cost of the stay before taxes.

Year-to-date, rising interest rates, historic inflation and geopolitical volatility have so far had limited negative impact on the U.S. lodging industry’s performance, evidenced by YTD RevPAR surpassing 2019 levels by 6.4%.

Hyatt has been testing bookable personal gyms, most of them in a converted guest rooms, available by the hour. They are separate from the hotels’ regular fitness centers.

Marriott announced the debut of The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, making its foray into the luxury yachting space.

There were over 60 million skier visits to U.S. resorts last season, the highest ever reported. The past two years also posted record individual domestic participation—10.5 million in 2020/2021 and 10.7 million in 2021/2022.

The existing Interstate Hotels & Resorts portfolio, which has operated as Aimbridge’s international division since 2019, comprising some 114 properties (15,000 rooms) across the UK and Europe will be rebranded Aimbridge EMEA.

Dajia Insurance Group is putting up for sale the Montage in Laguna Beach, the Four Seasons resort in Jackson Hole and the Four Seasons in Scottsdale. The combined price tag is estimated at $1.3 billion.

The average daily room rate for group hotel bookings last month was $204, only 3.4% below the rate for same month in 2019.