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Introducing The Spotlight, a new podcast from Lighthouse (formerly OTA Insight) where travel & hospitality professionals come to sharpen their revenue management strategies.
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Lighthouse Quick Takes - Short term rentals absorb Ocean City's hotel demand (opens the original)
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Ocean City, Maryland topped Lighthouse's Market Demand Index for summer 2026, yet its hotels cut prices year over year. In this Lighthouse Quick Take, Blake Reiter unpacks the disconnect: short term rental supply in Ocean City grew more than 21%, while occupancy and gross ADR for those properties both climbed, absorbing demand that hotels expected to capture. The same pattern shows up in Rapid City, Myrtle Beach, Virginia Beach, and Destin.
Lighthouse Quick Takes - Why monthly occupancy forecast accuracy hides daily misses (opens the original)
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A hotel beats its monthly occupancy forecast by six tenths of a point, and the room celebrates. But averaging 30 days of forecasted and actual occupancy can hide daily misses of eight, twelve, even sixteen percentage points. In this Lighthouse Quick Take, Blake Reiter explains why over-forecasts and under-forecasts don't cancel out operationally, even when they cancel out on paper.
Lighthouse Quick Takes - Abilene hotel rates surge after Stargate AI project (opens the original)
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In this Lighthouse Quick Take, Blake explores what happened to hotel pricing in Abilene, Texas, home to Stargate, the $500 billion AI data center project announced by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank in January 2025. Actualized pricing was flat in the low $90s through 2024, then climbed to a peak of $243 a night by March 2026, up about 126% comparing the first seven months of 2026 to the same stretch in 2024.
Lighthouse Quick Takes - Average booking lead time hides 3 hotel guest segments (opens the original)
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A 44-day average booking lead time sounds like a clear signal, but it blends 3 completely different traveler types: corporate guests booking 8 days out, leisure guests booking 60 days out and groups booking 80 days or more. In this Lighthouse Quick Take, Blake explores why blended averages like lead time and length of stay can trigger the wrong pricing, marketing and staffing decisions.
Lighthouse Quick Takes - Global hospitality pricing: H1 2026 recap, H2 outlook (opens the original)
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Advertised three-star hotel prices in North America are up 3.7% for the second half of 2026, while five-star prices are down 20.5%, a 24-point gap in the same region and months. In this Lighthouse Quick Take, Blake breaks down Lighthouse's newly released State of Global Hospitality Pricing report, covering the H1 2026 recap and H2 2026 outlook.
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