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Long Hotel Rally Losing Steam as Supply Swells, Business Travel Falls
Wall Street Journal, Sept. 10, 2019–Esther Fung (subscription)
A nearly decade-long rally for the hotel business is showing signs of petering out. Hotel owners in large cities say they are getting squeezed by weaker business-traveler demand, higher labor costs and a crush of new hotel projects that is weighing on room rates.