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The earnings season for hotel companies kicked into high gear with Host Hotels and Pebblebrook becoming the first REITs to show their hand.
4 weeks ago
Host Hotels continues to have one of the best balance sheets, if not the best, in the lodging REIT space.
11 months ago
Coronavirus
Group travel is crucial for massive convention hotels to bounce back from coronavirus, but a vaccine or treatment is needed before major bookings materialize.
Cameron Sperance, Skift | 4 years ago
Hotels
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.
Deanna Ting, Skift | 6 years ago
More conservative folks might talk about being "cautiously optimistic," but positivity is the prevailing sentiment this year in the hospitality industry.
Business Travel
So, how about that travel ban?
Deanna Ting, Skift | 7 years ago
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.
Deanna Ting, Skift | 8 years ago
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.
Skift | 8 years ago
Host Hotels is a benchmark. And as uninspiring as it sometimes may be, it can often lead the way to what will happen in the next quarter for the U.S.-centric chain.
Associated Press, Skift | 8 years ago
Bill Gates' Cascade Investment already plays a role in managing a hotel, and now it will go full circle and own it, too. Seller Host Hotels, meanwhile, wants to reduce its ample presence in Atlanta.
Christopher Seward, Atlanta Journal-Constitution | 10 years ago