The GDS Still Runs the Business Trip, Are Hotels Repeating Black Hat SEO with GEO?, Where AI Should Decide, Recommend and Stop
Why this matters
Hospitality has separated by chain scale and demand segment, with luxury and resort outperforming and select-service holding pricing power on a leaner cost base. New construction starts remain at multi-decade lows, which has supported in-place RevPAR and made conversions of soft-branded flags an increasingly active part of transaction velocity. For sponsors with operational expertise, the sector continues to offer one of the more compelling income-plus-appreciation profiles available across CRE.
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On the RET wire
- Disclosed hospitality deal value tracked in October 2026: $1.1B across 8 reported transactions. All Hospitality coverage →
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Friday brought Markus Busch on Sabre's GDS hotel reservations growing 8% in Q2 with corporate travel at 45% of volume, Cogwheel's Stephanie Sparks Smith and Michael Curran warning hotels against repeating black hat SE…
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