Articles tagged “inflation”

"Here's a mostly empty office building that we want to turn into a cool hotel" is, in 2025, an easier sell to lenders than "Here's an empty lot that we want to turn into a cool hotel." That's true because of high interest rates and construction costs.

Despite making tremendous strides in 2024, the travel industry still faces several challenges and here's a list of some of them.

It turns out that 2019 is no longer a good year to compare prices to. That should be a relief to anyone trying to explain why their travel budget looks so different now.

Today's podcast looks at July Fourth travel, Tourism Portland CEO's record, and inflation's impact on travel.

Several destinations have experienced a tourism boom in recent years, but has a surge in visitors contributed to inflation?

America's economy hotels experienced a case of the first-quarter blues as the budget travel crowd appeared to spend less. Could inflation be to blame?

Goodbye double-digit growth? Hotel prices soared post-pandemic, but with inflation cooling and travel normalizing, 2024 poses the question: Can pricing strength hold? We think so.

Good news for travelers, bad news for hotel owners. The U.S. hotel industry is seeing a (modest) decline in room rates after a recent dramatic run-up in prices.

The travel industry faces several challenges entering the new year, and here's a list of the biggest ones it faces on its ongoing road to a full recovery.

Taking into account inflation, the U.S. still has a lot of work to recover international traveler spending.