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      <title>Housekeeping on request: what opt-out programs do to labor cost</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A skipped clean saves $5–$7 in direct labor at the BLS median wage — but the property saves money only when schedules are rebuilt. Here is the operator math.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:53:54 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Cassandra Okonkwo</dc:creator>
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      <title>RevPAR, ADR, GOPPAR: what each metric actually tells an operator</title>
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      <dc:creator>Cassandra Okonkwo</dc:creator>
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      <title>Service charges are not tips: what three federal rulebooks require of hotels</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:42:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Cassandra Okonkwo</dc:creator>
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      <title>The hotel ramp-up curve: how new properties reach stabilized performance</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>Aisha Rahman</dc:creator>
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      <title>Housekeeping on request: what opt-out cleaning actually does to a hotel&apos;s labor line</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:42:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Aisha Rahman</dc:creator>
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      <title>GOPPAR explained: the profit metric operators track when RevPAR isn&apos;t enough</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:42:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Cassandra Okonkwo</dc:creator>
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      <title>USALI&apos;s 12th edition brings mandatory payroll and distribution reporting to hotels</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The accounting standard's new payroll, distribution-channel and sustainability schedules became mandatory in January, changing what finance teams have to track and disclose.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:42:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Cassandra Okonkwo</dc:creator>
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      <title>Booking an accessible room: what federal law actually requires of hotels</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:42:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Cassandra Okonkwo</dc:creator>
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      <title>Office-to-hotel conversion: what the cost data actually shows</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:42:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hilton&apos;s pipeline nears half a million rooms as conversions grow</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hilton's development backlog hit a record near 500,000 rooms at end-2024, per its Q4 release — and the conversion share is the real operator story about franchise churn and construction economics.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:53:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Cassandra Okonkwo</dc:creator>
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      <title>Lodging manager pay tops $68,000 as hotel hiring pipeline tightens, BLS finds</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Aisha Rahman</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Forward bookings up 5-10% across Europe's summer, September fastest. Where 2026 demand moved, what it means for prices and late bookings.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Aisha Rahman</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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