Article - U.S. Hotel Management Company Compensation Slows in 2023 - By Robert Mandelbaum and Tim Dick - As U.S. lodging industry performance decelerated in 2023, so did the amount of fees paid by owners to their management companies. Preliminary results from CBRE s annual Trends in the Hotel Industry survey find that total hotel revenue growth slowed to 6.9% in 2023, while GOP inched up by 3.5%. As a result, total management fee payments rose by just 1.2% during the year, well below the double and triple-digit growth rates seen in the previous two years.
Over the past four years, utility costs at U.S. hotels have increased at a pace greater than total operating revenue. As a result, utility department expenses increased from 2.9 percent of total revenue in 2019 to an estimated 3.3 percent in 2023. As hotels have struggled to recover from the pandemic, any rise in cost ratios is an area of concern for owners and operators.
Article - Short-Term Rentals Continue Trend of Taking Market Share from Hotels - CBRE U.S. Hotels State of the Union March 2024 Edition - Hotel demand fell 2.0% in January, while short-term rental demand rose 1.3%. Despite taking share from hotels, increasing supply has created occupancy headwinds for short term rentals causing RevPAR to contract 6.6%.
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