ALIS Conference 2017 – Recap

Robert A. Rauch, CHA | February 2, 2017

By Robert A. Rauch, CHA This year's ALIS Conference in Los Angeles was very interesting because nobody knew going in whether or not it would be upbeat. The elections were contentious to say the least and there are still some hard feelings around the country but at ALIS it was all business. STR came out with their 2017 forecast, Hilton added Tapestry, Marriott set up an "innovation lab" and Kalibri Labs announced insightful findings about how much share the OTAs take from the pie. STR Forecast STR's Jan Freitag is forecasting 2.5 percent RevPAR growth in 2017 and many feel he is being conservative. That comes after a year of RevPAR growt...