U.S. hotel performance in May was decidedly lackluster, but Tell Me More podcast hosts Isaac Collazo from STR and Jan Freitag from CoStar point out some bright spots, like notable recent hotel transactions and the team's recent gold medal for best podcast at the National Association of Real Estate Reporters' annual conference. This episode also refers to this recent CoStar News Hotels podcast about summer travel trends with Deloitte's Maggie Rauch.

In this special episode recorded on June 2, 2025, at the NYU IHIF conference in New York City, STR's Isaac Collazo and CoStar's Jan Freitag join CoStar News' Stephanie Ricca to talk about the latest U.S. hotel industry forecast revision from CoStar Group and Tourism Economics. Collazo and Freitag debate what might spur positive or negative deviations from this latest forecast as the rest of the year plays out, including changes in demand, consumer confidence and more. Visit www.costar.com/hotelnews.

Tell Me More podcast hosts Isaac Collazo, Jan Freitag and Stephanie Ricca look at how current news headlines are (or are not) reflected in the data. Collazo shares April hotel performance data highlights around the world, and Freitag unpacks the current hotel pipeline.

Tell Me More podcast hosts Isaac Collazo, Jan Freitag and Stephanie Ricca try to get through an entire episode without saying the word "uncertainty." Collazo shares March and full first-quarter hotel performance data highlights around the world, and the two debate the influence airline performance has on the hotel industry, as well as whether or not consumer confidence can hold.

Recording live from the Hunter Hotel Investment Conference, Tell Me More podcast hosts Isaac Collazo, Jan Freitag and Stephanie Ricca discuss some new ways STR is unpacking hotel industry performance at a micro-market level, their impressions of the current macroeconomic environment and why there's always reason for hope.

January 2025 posted high revenue per available room growth, but sometimes the numbers are not what they seem. Tell Me More podcast hosts Isaac Collazo from STR and Jan Freitag from CoStar unpack the anomalies that made January's number look high, they talk about small movements in the hotel pipeline and they discuss the percentage of hotels around the world that have recovered 2019 occupancy levels.

Tell Me More: A Hospitality Data Podcast returns in 2025 with a look at recent changes that are having an impact on hotels, like natural disasters and a new U.S. administration. Tell Me More podcasters Isaac Collazo from STR and Jan Freitag from CoStar join host Stephanie Ricca for more in-depth looks at 2024 in review and what to expect as 2025 begins. Mentioned in this episode: 'More peeks of sun' in 2025 hotel industry outlook. And visit Spotify for a bonus playlist of all the songs Collazo, Freitag and Ricca mention on the podcast from 2024 through now.

Tell Me More podcasters Isaac Collazo from STR and Jan Freitag from CoStar join host Stephanie Ricca for this special bonus episode to make some predictions for hotel performance in 2025. Collazo and Freitag highlight key performance indicators to watch in the new year with renewed optimism. Mentioned in this episode: The skies will clear for hoteliers in 2024