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CEO pay versus performance: See the highest-paid travel bosses and how they scored on total returns for their shareholders.

Host Hotels reported solid first-quarter earnings exceeding expectations, while Summit Hotels also outperformed with significant margin expansion.

The earnings season for hotel companies kicked into high gear with Host Hotels and Pebblebrook becoming the first REITs to show their hand. 

Host Hotels continues to have one of the best balance sheets, if not the best, in the lodging REIT space.

Group travel is crucial for massive convention hotels to bounce back from coronavirus, but a vaccine or treatment is needed before major bookings materialize.

As we've noted before, as much as hotels and online travel agencies may not necessarily love one another, they certainly need each other. Their current love-hate relationship will certainly change, however, if and when other players like Airbnb or Google become bigger players in the hotel booking space.

More conservative folks might talk about being "cautiously optimistic," but positivity is the prevailing sentiment this year in the hospitality industry.

So, how about that travel ban?

Roots run deep between Host Hotels and Marriott, obviously. But the fact that Host also owns properties that fly under Starwood and Marriott's brands, among others, gives its perspectives on ownership and operations some serious weight when talking about the future of the big merger and the direct booking wars.

Host's portfolio includes brands from across most of the major chains, which means its earnings are an indication of the health of the U.S. domestic market as a whole.