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An Airbnb Guest Said "We Paid Cleaning Fees" and Trashed the Place. Hotels Win This Argument Every Time. Baltimore's 622-Key Renaissance Sold for $48K Per Key. It Traded at $252K in 2005. A $3 Bet Paid $281K. The Real Winner Is the Casino's Marketing Budget. SiteMinder Wants to Be Your AI Booking Middleman. Ask Who's Paying for That. SiteMinder Wants to Be Your Hotel's Front Door to AI Search. The Plumbing Isn't Ready. The Gambling Industry Blew $3.9 Billion on Marketing. Most of It Was Wasted. Booking.com Got Breached. Your Front Desk Is the Actual Attack Surface. An Airbnb Guest Said "We Paid Cleaning Fees" and Trashed the Place. Hotels Win This Argument Every Time. Baltimore's 622-Key Renaissance Sold for $48K Per Key. It Traded at $252K in 2005. A $3 Bet Paid $281K. The Real Winner Is the Casino's Marketing Budget. SiteMinder Wants to Be Your AI Booking Middleman. Ask Who's Paying for That. SiteMinder Wants to Be Your Hotel's Front Door to AI Search. The Plumbing Isn't Ready. The Gambling Industry Blew $3.9 Billion on Marketing. Most of It Was Wasted. Booking.com Got Breached. Your Front Desk Is the Actual Attack Surface.

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SFR Capital Fleeing Regulation Won't Check Into Hotels

Politicians want to crack down on institutional single-family rental owners. The hospitality crowd hopes that capital rotates into hotels. It won't — and the reason tells you something about how investors actually think about lodging.

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Jordan Chen 3 min read · Feb 17