A survey of 246 hoteliers confirms rising costs and staffing shortages are crushing margins. But the real story isn't the complaints... it's what's hiding underneath the numbers nobody wants to talk about.
The latest AHLA survey confirms what every operator already feels in their gut: costs are eating you alive while rate growth has flatlined. The question isn't whether your margins are compressing. It's how much longer you can absorb the hit before something breaks.
National RevPAR clocked a 6.2% year-over-year gain in late February, and everybody's ready to pop champagne. But strip out Mardi Gras and a Vegas convention cycle, and what you've actually got is a flat market pretending to be a growing one.
Host topped earnings and revenue expectations. But for a luxury REIT sitting on irreplaceable assets, the question isn't this quarter's beat — it's what the capital allocation signals about where they think the cycle is headed.
