The Year Behind Us & The Year Ahead: Interpreting US Lodging Forecasts for 2025

R. Mark Woodworth, Principal at Woodworth Core Group and Board Member for Hotel Investor Apps, considers US lodging industry forecasts for 2025 along side US economic forecasts for 2025 for an in-depth analysis and offers a clear takeaway for industry leaders.

News Article: October 16, 2024 by R. Mark Woodworth
The Year Behind Us, the Year Ahead by R. Mark Woodworth

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HIA’s Chip Fritsch on AI in Hotel Accounting

Chip Fritsch, COO and Co-Founder of Hotel Investor Apps was featured in Hotel Business with an exclusive article on power of Artificial Intelligence in modern hotel accounting software.

News Article: June 18, 2024 by Jaime Goss
Chip Fritsch, COO of HIA, on the Power of AI in Hotel Accounting

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Post Pandemic Déjà Vu

Since the start of this century, we have experienced three recessions: March – November 2001 (9/11 and the Dot.Com bubble); December 2007 – June 2009 (Great Financial Crisis – GFC), and February – April 2020 (the pandemic). All three had very different contours (depth and duration), which may be explained by the principal cause associated with each contraction.

News Article: April 1, 2024 by R. Mark Woodworth
Post Pandemic Deja Vu by R. Mark Woodworth

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Time to Stop Hugging the Bear?

2023 Economic Outlook for the US Hotel Industry. By R. Mark Woodworth
Thinking back over this past year, many important economic indicators (the rate of inflation, elevated energy costs, Federal Reserve rate increases, labor scarcity leading to higher wages, etc.) were suggesting that a recession in the near-to-mid-term bordered on being inevitable. Certainly, a bearish outlook.

News Article: January 19, 2023 by R. Mark Woodworth

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Keeping Things in Perspective

While lodging fundamentals have improved dramatically over the past two years, many see threatening clouds on the horizon. . .

News Article: July 5, 2022 by R. Mark Woodworth

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