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.