2021 Is Halfway Complete. How Far Has the Hotel Industry Made It Back?

HotStats | August 2, 2021

Gauging the global hotel industry’s recovery is a lot like poker: you play the hand you’re dealt as best you can and you never know what the next one will bring. Just when we thought we might be out of the woods, an uptick in new cases, the Delta variant and fervent discussion over the vaccinated and unvaccinated have conspired, resulting in the return of masks in some jurisdictions and worry around the globe that this pandemic has still a ways to go. I attended the Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS), in Los Angeles, last week, and—though optimism and rosiness tend to permeate industry conferences—in private, attendees ex...