Hospitality
Housekeeping on request: what opt-out programs do to labor cost
Skipping the daily clean saves minutes per room — whether those minutes become money depends entirely on scheduling, and the guest-exposure risk is real.
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Service
Service charges are not tips: what three federal rulebooks require of hotels
A mandatory resort, banquet or room service charge is wages under Labor Department rules, non-tip income under IRS reporting, and part of the advertised total price under the FTC fee rule that took effect in May 2025.
Openings
The hotel ramp-up curve: how new properties reach stabilized performance
New hotels don't open at full strength. Research on thousands of U.S. openings shows how long the climb to stabilized occupancy and RevPAR actually takes, and why brand affiliation shortens it.
Hotels
Housekeeping on request: what opt-out cleaning actually does to a hotel's labor line
Most hotels now clean occupied rooms only when a guest asks. AHLA data shows why guests accepted it — and operators are still working out what it costs and saves.
Hospitality News
GOPPAR explained: the profit metric operators track when RevPAR isn't enough
Gross operating profit per available room isolates what management actually controls. Here is how it is calculated, how it diverges from RevPAR, and what recent data shows about the gap between the two.
Hospitality
USALI's 12th edition brings mandatory payroll and distribution reporting to hotels
The accounting standard's new payroll, distribution-channel and sustainability schedules became mandatory in January, changing what finance teams have to track and disclose.
Guests
Booking an accessible room: what federal law actually requires of hotels
A 2010 regulation reaches into booking engines and front-desk procedure, not just building codes. Here is what hotels must do for guests who need mobility, hearing or vision accommodations.
Design
Office-to-hotel conversion: what the cost data actually shows
CBRE puts the price of turning a vacant office building into hotel rooms at $250 to $650 a square foot, well under ground-up construction in some cases, but CBRE's own hotels team says the same buildings routinely blow past that range.
Business News
Lodging manager pay tops $68,000 as hotel hiring pipeline tightens, BLS finds
Federal wage data show a narrow, aging pool of career hotel managers commanding steady pay growth — a staffing math problem operators will be pricing into budgets for the next decade.