Daily Update

What Hoteliers Need to Know Today:

• Spirit Airlines finds even cheap fares can’t help fill airplanes (Skift)
• What will staying in a hotel look like in the near future? (CNN)
• Hilton expects ‘very bad’ Q2, recovery starting in Q3 (Hotel News Now)
• Hyatt portfolio among worst hit for hotel brands (Hotel News Now)
• Stephen Rogers on Deloitte’s “State of the Consumer” survey (Lodging Magazine)
• Senator calls for changes to Paycheck Protection Program (Cory Gardner)
• AHLA Front Desk Feedback: Survey of hotels on PPP and debt issues (AHLA)
• Airbnb hosts are building their own direct booking websites in revolt (CNBC)

What Hoteliers Need to Know Today:

• SBA updates PPP guidance for employees refusing to return (Bar & Restaurant)
• STR: US hotel results for week ending May 2 (Hotel News Now)
• STR: Florida, Texas lead weekend hotel occupancy gains (Lodging Magazine)
• Airbnb occupancy rates rebound from March lows (PR Newswire)
• When will we start traveling again? Here’s what experts are saying (CNBC)
• Virgin Hotels files lawsuits against owner of SF property (No Vacancy)
• Nashville’s Hermitage Hotel makes 400 meals for police (Fox 17)
• How to re-open your hotel after lockdown (Triptease)
• An update from Marriott on commitment to cleanliness (Marriott)

What Hoteliers Need to Know Today:

• Kalibri Labs’ COVID-19 Impact:Recovery analysis (Kalibri)
• A look at March US hotel profitability as COVID-19 hit (HNN)
• Airbnb cuts 1,900 jobs, 25% of global workforce (TechCrunch)
• Airbnb gives laid-off staff 14 weeks pay, health insurance (Marketwatch)
• COVID-19 forced Airbnb to rethink its product offerings (TechCrunch)
• How hotel SOPs will evolve post COVID-19 (Pineapple Hospitality)
• PNC Bank expects ‘worst recession since Great Depression’ (Post-Gazette)
• 3 ways hotels are supporting employees during COVID-19 (Lodging Magazine)

What Hoteliers Need to Know Today:

• USTA, partners outline ‘new normal’ guidelines (Travel Market Report)
• Pricing in a pandemic: Navigating the COVID-19 crisis (McKinsey)
• The hotel operator’s checklist for recovery (HR2020)
• Drive-to leisure to boost Wyndham’s comeback (Hotel News Now)
• COVID-19 hotel forecast: Boston (Phocuswright)
• Webinar: The unfamiliar shift of localization (BLLA)

What Hoteliers Need to Know Today:

• The first signs of optimism emerge in latest GBTA study (GBTA)
• Travel Intentions Pulse Survey (TIPS): Impact of COVID-19 (MMGY)
• Industry leaders share regulatory, lending challenges (Hotel News Now)
• Industry issues guidelines before anticipated travel surge (USA Today)
• How are hotels responding to COVID-19?: Survey results (Sherri Kimes)
• Hotel Industry 2020: The new normal (RAR Hospitality)
• COVID-19 & the hospitality industry worldwide (IDeaS)
• The inaugural Commercial Strategy Games (Level 60)

What Hoteliers Need to Know Today:

• 4 steps hotels can take now to regain guest trust (Hospitality Technology)
• MGM Resorts prepares for phased reopenings (Hotel News Now)
• Recent US RevPAR lift due to favorable calendar shift (Hotel News Now)
• STR: US hotel results for week ending April 25 (Hotel News Now)
• Duetto Pulse Report: Edition 2, April 30, 2020 (Duetto)
• ABC Creative Group develops report for NYS Tourism (PR Newswire)
• Do website visitors care about your COVID precautions? (Hotelchamp)
• HSMAI, MMGY launch “Vacay Layaway” program (Travel Agent Central)

What Hoteliers Need to Know Today:

• Survey: Destination professionals increasingly optimistic on local (Lodging Magazine)
• Stats: Half of Americans plan to rebook travel (Travel Agent Central)
• Survey: 70% of tour operators reschedule trips (PR Newswire)
• U.S. hotel construction pipeline held steady in Q1 (Lodging Magazine)
• ‘W’-shaped recovery may be too optimistic, fed suggests (Reuters)
• WTTC outlines what “the new normal” will look like (WTTC)
• An epidemiologist on steps to take in preparing to reopen (Fast Company)
• SiteMinder launches World Hotel Index (SiteMinder)
• HVMG launches associate relief fund (Yahoo! Finance)

What Hoteliers Need to Know Today:

• Monthly P&L data launch (STR)
• Global hotel profit rocked by COVID-19 (Hotstats)
• COVID-19 Impact:Recovery Analysis (Kalibri Labs)
• U.S. Hotel Outlook presentation (CBRE)
• A how-to guide for targeting the drive market (Revenue Hub)
• Reassuring customers, employees during F&B closures (EHL)
• Pandemic flattens the sharing economy (Axios)
• Hyatt latest to announce new cleaning program (USA Today)

What Hoteliers Need to Know Today:

• Lasting effects of tech-led coronavirus lockdowns on travel (Phocuswire)
• Five reasons the hotel industry will overcome the pandemic (Forbes)
• Survey shows positive signs for investment rebound (Hotel News Now)
• Report: COVID-19 hotel forecast – London (Phocuswire)
• Hotels require more PPP loan funding to save jobs (AHLA)
• Forget ‘new normal.’ Think reset. (HR 2020)
• AHLA launches plan for enhanced cleaning standards (AHLA)
• Hilton attempts to define new standard of cleanliness (Hilton)

What Hoteliers Need to Know Today:

• What hoteliers can do to prepare for COVID-19 recovery (EHL)
• No sugarcoating US hotels’ record drops in March (Hotel News Now)
• Seven cost-saving measures to help avoid layoffs (Lodging Magazine)
• Will glamping emerge as the ideal social distancing vacation? (Forbes)
• B&Bs offer perfect option for ‘new normal’ getaways (PR Newswire)
• Lessons from a start-up for a better tomorrow (Linkedin)
• Publicly traded hotel firms won’t give back loans (Associated Press)
• LodgingStream: A Brave New World (Long Live Lodging)