Hotel Insurance – A Largely Uncontrollable Cost

Robert Mandelbaum | April 19, 2022

To analyze recent changes in hotel insurance costs, and the factors that influence those changes, we examined the operating statements of 3,156 U.S. hotels that reported insurance expenses for the Trends® survey each year from 2015 through 2021 (estimated). By Robert Mandelbaum & Tom Cleary In 2020 and 2021, U.S. hotel operators did a praiseworthy job controlling expenses to offset the significant declines in revenue. Based on data from CBRE’s Trends® in the Hotel Industry survey of annual operating statements from thousands of properties across the U.S., not only have we seen a reduction in the variable expenses associated wi...