Dominican Republic

We have our first Filipino lodging stock trading in the U.S. as Hotel101, which went public via a merger with a SPAC.

J Street plans to convert Tower 180 in Downtown San Diego into a 560-key dual-branded Hyatt Place and Hyatt House hotel.

Hotel industry executives showed subdued optimism at NYU Conference amid macro uncertainty and flat transaction growth expectations.

Brookfield Asset Management has acquired the Generator Hostels' European brand and hotels for €776 million from Queensgate Investments.

IHG and Choice were optimistic about the rest of the year, though Choice moderated its outlook. The lodging sector expanded with Kessler Collection and others breaking ground.

A Boston hotel site is for sale for $6.5M, while EasyGroup will sell EasyHotel to Tristan Capital Partners for €242M in total value.

Late last week, hotel REITs in the U.S. released an avalanche of earnings and investors were in a good mood again.

Concerns over Trump 2.0's impact on the hotel industry are rising, with Deutsche Bank noting potential early signs of a RevPAR downturn.

Stocks plunged sharply, with the DJIA, Nasdaq, and S&P 500 all dropping, while treasury yields fell and lodging and gambling stocks took heavy losses.

In 2024, Marriott International expanded in Caribbean and Latin America, adding 30 properties, 8,000 rooms, and growing its pipeline to 27,817 rooms.