Hotel Industry Appears To Be Trending Downward
July 10, 2019An industry trade publication has reported that the hotel industry appears to be headed for a downturn.
According to Hotel News Now, the industry is already in the early stages of a slowdown with year-to-date trends showing “negative occupancy for all but the highest and lowest chain scales, while urban markets are underperforming national averages.”
The publication goes on to note that with softening revenue trends and rising costs, many hotels are witnessing “flat to down profits.”
At the same time, the article points out that the hotel industry downturn is not likely to be either long or especially deep.
“For hotels, I don’t expect the downturn to be nearly as deep as the last two, but with supply growth peaking around two percent, demand is unlikely to keep pace,” writer David Loeb notes in the Hotel News Now column. “Absent some exogenous event, I don’t see demand growth going negative. This should lead to national occupancy in the flat to down one percent range over the next 12 to 18 months.”