Hyatt Hotels Corporation continues strategically growing its luxury and lifestyle brand footprint with a strong development pipeline of more than 30 planned hotels and resorts in the Americas region through 2025.
Today's edition of Skift's daily podcast looks closer at Hyatt's business travel optimism, JetBlue-Spirit merger spoils, and business travel spending trends.
JP Morgan reported on investor meetings they held with Hyatt. JPM said they came away incrementally enthused about Hyatt and its multi-year opportunities and transformation to an increasingly asset-light business model.
Hyatt loves all its guests. But business travelers, especially ones traveling internationally, are typically its most profitable ones. The company is adjusting how it markets its loyalty program to reflect new realities.
Marriott said in May it would include resort fees in the first prices travelers see on its site and app. Hyatt and MGM Resorts have also made a change. Which hotel group will be next?
Travelers United's choice to sue Hyatt over its "junk fee" practices fits into a broader storyline about travel junk fees being in the limelight ever since President Joe Biden referred…
Betting against China's torrid economic growth has been a fool's errand for decades. But nothing lasts forever. Foreign hotel executives shouldn't make blind assumptions about endless hotel development opportunities in the country.