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$400 Million for 615 Rooms in Medina. The Math Per Key Should Make You Sit Down. Airbnb Just Bought an $81.5M Office in the City That Banned Its Product A Five-Year-Old Drowned at a Davenport Airbnb. That Pool Had No Lifeguard, No Inspector, and No Accountability. Caesars' Digital Bet Hit Record Numbers. Then Fertitta Bought the Whole Company for a 49% Premium. Wyndham's Pipeline Hit 261,000 Rooms. Ask How Many Are Running Production Software. The World Cup Filled Your Rooms. The Question Is What You Learned From It. Hotel Points Lost 25% of Their Value This Year. Owners Should Care More Than They Do. $400 Million for 615 Rooms in Medina. The Math Per Key Should Make You Sit Down. Airbnb Just Bought an $81.5M Office in the City That Banned Its Product A Five-Year-Old Drowned at a Davenport Airbnb. That Pool Had No Lifeguard, No Inspector, and No Accountability. Caesars' Digital Bet Hit Record Numbers. Then Fertitta Bought the Whole Company for a 49% Premium. Wyndham's Pipeline Hit 261,000 Rooms. Ask How Many Are Running Production Software. The World Cup Filled Your Rooms. The Question Is What You Learned From It. Hotel Points Lost 25% of Their Value This Year. Owners Should Care More Than They Do.

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$400 Million for 615 Rooms in Medina. The Math Per Key Should Make You Sit Down.

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$400 Million for 615 Rooms in Medina. The Math Per Key Should Make You Sit Down.

A Saudi developer just set up a $393 million fund to build two Marriott hotels and 295 branded residences in Medina, and the per-key economics tell a story about religious tourism demand that most Western operators have never had to think about... until now.

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