Daily Lodging Report Weekly Highlights

Hotel companies, developers, and investors all signaled this week with their various deals that they are all taking the long view on the hospitality industry. Omicron and the rest of the pandemic is a blip in the timeline of construction and brand expansion.

Leisure travel will continue to dominate hotel booking patterns into the new year, even if Omicron is only a minor blip on performance.

The Omicron variant hasn't impacted the global hotel industry as far as weekly performance data yet, but government regulations are already unfurling and pointing to a difficult winter ahead.

It's a week of good news for major U.S. cities while Asia Pacific sends mixed signals on reopening, much to the economic detriment of countries without much of a domestic traveler base.

Hilton is a winner in the Trump D.C. hotel sale while China's hotel development pipeline isn't suffering like the country's occupancy rates amid new coronavirus mitigation efforts.

Asia's reopening continues at a glacial pace while analysts now think a full demand recovery in the U.S. isn't out of the question sometime next year.

Data out of Asia shows just how bad border closures are hurting hotel business in major cities while it's business as usual on the investment transaction front.

Development interest, occupancy rates, and even business travel are on the rise around many parts the world where borders are reopening. But a zero-tolerance approach to coronavirus is putting some of China's largest cities through even more tough times.

Data is finally showing what all the major hotel company executives have been saying on the last few earnings cycles: Asia is going to lead the world in hotel construction activity coming out of the pandemic.

Major analysts groups are beginning to settle around the fact the hotel recovery from the pandemic has a giant question mark over it. A faster performance recovery now relies on restructuring and cutting costs to get back to pre-pandemic profits.