Four Key Takeaways | 2015 Hotel Data Conference

J. Carter Allen | August 18, 2015

By J. Carter Allen Acceleration in group hotel demand and solid supply fundamentals are two factors favoring a positive outlook for U.S. hotels. Some of the nation's most respected hoteliers and hotel statisticians pitched a very optimistic outlook for the U.S. hotel industry at the 2015 Hotel Data Conference, held August 4–5 in Nashville. The term "recovery" is becoming obsolete, as the recession of 2008/09 fades further into the background. U.S. hotels, on the whole, have been coursing through an upturn unlike anything industry veterans have seen in their decades in the business, and the numbers support the continuance of this posit...