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80% of World Cup Host City Hotels Are Below Forecast. The Rate Strategy Made It Worse. IHG Has Spent $3.9 Billion Buying Back Its Own Stock Since 2022. That's Capital That Didn't Build Hotels. Barry Diller Wants to Take MGM Private at $48.30. The Stock Says He's Lowballing. Curator Just Handed 120 Independents an Enterprise Tech Stack. Most Won't Use Half of It. Gas Prices Dipped. You've Got Maybe Three Weeks Before the Window Closes. Your Housekeepers Got a Raise This Year. They Still Took a Pay Cut. 4.2% Inflation on a 3.4% Wage Budget. Your Margin Is Shrinking in Three Places at Once. 80% of World Cup Host City Hotels Are Below Forecast. The Rate Strategy Made It Worse. IHG Has Spent $3.9 Billion Buying Back Its Own Stock Since 2022. That's Capital That Didn't Build Hotels. Barry Diller Wants to Take MGM Private at $48.30. The Stock Says He's Lowballing. Curator Just Handed 120 Independents an Enterprise Tech Stack. Most Won't Use Half of It. Gas Prices Dipped. You've Got Maybe Three Weeks Before the Window Closes. Your Housekeepers Got a Raise This Year. They Still Took a Pay Cut. 4.2% Inflation on a 3.4% Wage Budget. Your Margin Is Shrinking in Three Places at Once.

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80% of World Cup Host City Hotels Are Below Forecast. The Rate Strategy Made It Worse.

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80% of World Cup Host City Hotels Are Below Forecast. The Rate Strategy Made It Worse.

Hotels in World Cup host cities priced for a once-in-a-generation event and got once-in-a-generation displacement instead. The occupancy gap is real, the rate corrections are too late, and the operators who hedged their bets are the only ones sleeping tonight.

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