8 October 2025
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At The Lodging Conference in Phoenix, JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group® hosted an intimate meeting of hotel industry leaders to make valuable connections and explore ways to work together as they seek opportunities and confront the challenges ahead.
To kick off the meeting, Chantel Wu of STR CoStar provided a sobering update on the state of the industry and revised forecast for 2025 and 2026.
While the forecast has predicted some declines for many segments of the industry other than Luxury, the industry leaders focused on finding efficiencies, embracing innovation, and uncovering opportunities in uncertain times.
View the full presentation here: Hospitality Market Analytics 2025
This is Jim Butler, author of www.HotelLawBlog.com and founding partner of JMBM and JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group®. We provide business and legal advice to hotel owners, developers, independent operators and investors. This advice covers critical hotel issues such as hotel purchase, sale, development, financing, franchise, management, ADA, and IP matters. We also have compelling experience in hotel litigation, union avoidance and union negotiations, and cybersecurity & data privacy.
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