Strong Q1 airline earnings on international routes are a 30-60 day leading indicator for gateway hotel demand, and most properties gutted their international sales infrastructure during COVID and never rebuilt it.
InterGroup swung from a $2.7 million loss to a $1.5 million profit on the back of a 27% hotel revenue jump and a conveniently timed asset sale. The question is whether a single hotel riding a convention calendar and a renovation bump can sustain the kind of numbers that make a micro-cap look like a turnaround story.
National RevPAR jumped nearly 5% in mid-March, fueled by March Madness, spring break, and a physics conference in Denver. The question is whether your property rode the wave or watched it pass from the beach.
A REIT that traded at a persistent NAV discount all year just told you which assets it values most. The award list is a capital allocation signal hiding in a press release.
Pebblebrook guided 7.5%-9.0% same-property RevPAR growth for Q1 2026 while still carrying a net loss for 2025 of $65.8 million. The April 29 earnings call will reveal whether that optimism is backed by margin improvement or just busier hotels losing money faster.
A historic San Francisco hotel reopens after a loan default, ownership change, and major renovation. The per-key math tells a story the "discreet luxury" branding doesn't.
2025 gave us the first full-year decline in occupancy and RevPAR since the pandemic... but the executives describing it as "uneven" are burying the real story. Some operators thrived. Some got crushed. And the difference wasn't luck.
