Hot U.S. hotel markets in 2013

In lieu of painting U.S. hotel performance in too broad a stroke, executives from some of the country’s largest chains provided a more granular focus on several key markets during a breakout session at last week’s Americas Lodging Investment Summit.

• West: Alaska continues to strengthen. Hawaii is doing very well. Seattle is always a big winner; San Francisco is a city that’s on fire. San Diego is on everyone’s target list.
• East: New York and Boston. Pennsylvania and Ohio.
• Midwest: Upper Midwest, particularly the Minneapolis-St. Paul region. Bloomington,  Minnesota. Milwaukee, the Green Bay area. And of course Chicago.
• South: Due to oil activity: Texas. New Orleans. Florida.