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2 stories · First covered Mar 7, 2026 · Latest 3h ago
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Airbnb's Anti-Party Tech Blocked 20,000 Bookings Last July 4th. Hotels Should Be Paying Attention to Where Those Guests Went.
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3h ago

Airbnb's Anti-Party Tech Blocked 20,000 Bookings Last July 4th. Hotels Should Be Paying Attention to Where Those Guests Went.

Airbnb is deploying its party-detection system for the fifth straight July 4th weekend, and it's openly redirecting rejected guests toward hotel rooms. If you're running a limited-service property near a popular Airbnb market, some of your holiday weekend bookings aren't organic demand... they're Airbnb's rejects.

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Rav Patel 3 min read · 3h ago
The $15 Floor Hits Hotels at $2.8B. Here's Which Properties Don't Survive the Math.
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Mar 7

The $15 Floor Hits Hotels at $2.8B. Here's Which Properties Don't Survive the Math.

A federal minimum wage hike to $15 sounds like a round number until you decompose it by segment, state, and margin structure. For select-service owners in low-wage states, the real number is a 200-400 basis point EBITDA compression... and some of those properties are already operating at the edge.

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Jordan Chen 3 min read · Mar 7