Robert Mandelbaum
Robert Mandelbaum is Director of Research Information Services for CBRE Hotels Americas Research.
Holding the Line: Profit Growth Becomes Harder To Achieve for U.S. Hotels
U.S. hoteliers enjoyed a ninth consecutive year of profit growth in 2018; however, it is becoming increasingly difficult for managers to accomplish this task. According to CBRE’s 2019 edition of Trends in the Hotel...
Poor Performers: Why Some Hotels Are Not Rising With the Tide
According to the March 2019 edition of CBRE's Hotel Horizons forecast report, the 2019 average annual occupancy level for U.S. hotels is projected to be 66.2 percent. This will mark the sixth consecutive year...
Showing No Shows: A Closer Look at Attrition and Cancellation Fee Revenue
Per the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry (USALI), the income received from transient and group guests who fail to occupy a room or cancel a reservation in the prescribed timeframe, and...
Revenue Is Rising, But Collecting Is More Challenging
According to STR, U.S. hotels achieved all-time high levels of occupancy, ADR, and RevPAR in 2018. While a record number of guests are staying at hotels and revenues are flowing in, the ability to...
Premium Performance Impacts Flow-Through at Boutique Hotels
While boutique hotels comprised just 3.2 percent of the total U.S. lodging supply in 2017, boutique projects represented 17.8 percent of the rooms in the development pipeline as of June 2018. These hotels are...
