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Marriott may be encouraged by recovery signs around the world, but it also can't afford for corporate clients to keep in place stay-at-home work policies and meeting bans until the middle of 2021.

U.S. hotel industry employment has improved by 11 points since April, but a stalled recovery and fading summer has analysts cautioning of a pending winter jobs decline.

If you can't make a long-haul trek to Paris this summer, why not just a short hop, skip, and a jump to a roadside hotel two towns over? That mindset seems to be working in Choice Hotels' financial favor.

It's never too early to start planning for a post-pandemic travel environment, which Hilton is clearly doing with robust optimism. But the company can't ignore the fact the ongoing case surge in the U.S. threatens to curtail months of recovery momentum. How will that play out for the long term?

Extended stay hotels may be strong performers for Starwood Property Trust and Barry Sternlicht, but it may be years before the investment firm looks to deploy capital further into other hospitality sectors.

Hyatt leaders promote ongoing strength in China's hotel recovery, but the company can't lose sight that its exposure in the country — despite the momentum — is smaller compared to the U.S., which continues to struggle.

Best Western CEO David Kong wants hotel-specific economic relief from Washington like anyone else in the industry, but he's among the few publicly to recognize what is realistic and needs to happen to survive into 2021.

China and Europe continue to post strong gains in their hotel industry recoveries — not so much in the U.S. Hotel company mask mandates won't help the problem unless more Americans follow the rules.

The so-called 1031 exchanges are tax deferrals on profitable real estate that, at face value, seem like a no-brainer to repeal and generate revenue. But the coronavirus pandemic's negative impact on hotel building values should cause Washington to reconsider eliminating the provision.

Wyndham isn't hiding its plan to capitalize on distressed independent hotels and add them to the brand portfolio, but the hotel company can't ignore the problem of rising coronavirus cases in markets that led the U.S. into a travel recovery.