The hospitality technology industry is growing rapidly through guest-facing tech. This industry has the potential to become a $6-billion category, highlighting the significance of apps from mobile check-in and keyless room entry to personalized recommendations based on guest data.
Kituwah, the business entity of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, brings a capital commitment of $320 million to expand the Sports Illustrated Resorts brand.
New York hotels charged $260 a night on average in August, roughly 17% more than the same month in 2019. That was New York’s highest rate for the month of August since 2008.
Caesars Entertainment paid roughly half of a $30 million ransom that hackers demanded after a cyberattack late this summer, another example of a major casino operator suffering from an attack as MGM Resorts grapples with the fallout of a recent incident.
Private equity firm KSL said it intends to buy Hersha Hospitality Trust, the owner of 25 U.S. lifestyle and luxury hotels, in an all-cash transaction worth about $1.4 billion. The move would take private Hersha at an approximately 60% premium to the real-estate investment trust’s closing stock price on Friday. Its value was 14 times Hersha’s estimated year-to-date EBITDA of $99 million for 2023.
Blackstone is cashing in on the recovery of Las Vegas by selling a 22% stake in the Bellagio in a deal that values the asset at $5.1 billion. Realty Income is paying $300 million for the 22% stake in the landmark casino and resort, which are operated by MGM Resorts International under a long-term lease.
More hotels are monetizing the mountain of daily requests for early check-ins and late checkouts with fees for extra hours in the room.
For 2023, growth in revenue per available room was lowered by 0.5 percentage point, due to a 0.6 percentage point downgrade in occupancy growth. While that RevPAR growth remains above the long-term historical average, most of the increase was frontloaded to the early portion of the year. For 2024, the RevPAR growth projection was also lowered 0.5 percentage point on a 0.5 percentage point downgrade in occupancy. Average daily rate was upgraded 0.1 percentage points for 2023 but kept flat for 2024.
Hotel rates in the top 25 U.S. markets were up 9.3% year-to-date through May from the same period a year earlier.
