COVID-19 Resources
Market analytics and insights on the impact of the Coronavirus on Hotel Group Business
Solutions to Help Hotels During COVID-19
- Hotel Recovery Dashboard, an interactive tool that benchmarks properties as ‘Leading’, ‘On Track’ or ‘Delayed’ based on their performance compared to their market with 30-60-90-day action plans to advance that position.
- Knowland Prospector®, a solution that provides a simple way for boutique and select service hotels to source and book group business despite dynamic market restrictions.
- Meetings are Back! Hotels share their stories of welcoming guests and gathering safely. Get inspired and share your welcome back story.
Webcasts & Events
- Webcast Series: Bring It On with Kristi White: Gearing Up for the Road Ahead, Three-Part Series | Ongoing
- On-Demand Webinar: Stay the Course with the New Knowland Platform | 07.14.20
- Podcast: No Vacancy Podcast Episode: Hilton’s CFO on the State of Their Global Business + Knowland’s Kristi White | 06.10.20
- Webinar Series: Getting Back to Business: A Step-by-Step Plan for Hotel Recovery | begins 06.09.20
- Podcast: Hotel Marketing in the Wake of COVID-19 | 05.20.20
- On-Demand Recovery Webcast Series: Managing Today’s Challenges While Preparing for Tomorrow
- Virtual Conference: LodgingStream – A Brave New World | Thursday, April 30 at 2:15 pm ET
- Podcast: No Vacancy Podcast Episode: Best Practices for Key Recovery Strategies | 04.09.20
- On-Demand Webinar: COVID-19: Preparing Today for Success Tomorrow (includes access to webinar recording, presentation and transcript of Q&A session)
- Webinar: Crisis Management: Proactive Selling Strategies and Tactics with SalesBoost | 03.18.20
Blogs
- How Savvy Hotels are Gearing Up for the Road Ahead with Clifford Ferrera of Chesapeake Hospitality | 08.28.20
- 4 Things Every Hotel Sales Team Should Do — Yesterday | 05.27.20
- The New Look of Meetings & Events Post COVID-19 | 05.14.20
- 5 Actions Hotels Should Take Today to Stabilize and Protect Their Businesses | 04.29.20
- Go LIVE Together Coalition Aims to Protect the Trade Show and Live Events Industry | 04.24.20
- Hotel Business: Into the Unknown – COVID-19’s short- and Long-Term Impact on The Hotel Industry | 04.07.20
- Keep Calm and Wash Your Hands – A Hotel Industry Sanity Check on the Coronavirus Pandemic | 03.20.20
- COVID-19 Impact on Hotel Group Business | 03.11.20
Articles & Industry Media
- Hotel Business: Looking Beyond the Comp Set | 11.06.20
- Golden Nugget Leverages Knowland to Prospect for New Business | 10.28.20
- Hotel Kansas City Taps Knowland to Prospect Group Business Ahead of Grand Opening | 10.21.20
- Hotel Management: Understanding the Needs of Meeting Planners | 10.20.20
- Lodging Magazine: Industry Evolution
- Hotel Executive: Asset Owners/Managers: Your Path Forward | 09.13.20
- Hotel Business: Uncertainty, Hope, & Inertia: The Lies We Believe | 08.15.20
- Hotel Management: How to Rebuild Sales Teams for Success | 07.23.20
- Lodging: Five Things Meeting Planners Want From Hotels That Are Reopening | 07.20.20
- Hotel Executive: COVID-19: Self-Regulation Can Help Stimulate Recovery
- Lodging: Nine Steps for Communicating a Hotel’s Reopening | 06.04.20
- Hospitality Upgrade: 2020 and Beyond: What Does Recovery Look Like? | 05.19.20
- Hotel Business: CVBs and Their Role in Guiding Markets Through COVID-19 Recovery | 05.14.20
- Lodging: Seven Steps to Survival for Hotels Staying Open During COVID-19 | 05.07.20
- Hotelier: Shifting Sales Priorities is Key to Resurrecting Revenue Streams | 05.04.20
- Hotel Business: Into the Unknown – COVID-19’s Short- and Long-Term Impact on the Hotel Industry | 04.07.20
- Hospitality Upgrade: Live Survey Reveals 50 percent of Hotels Not Planning to Close Properties Due to COVID-19 | 03.27.20
- Hotel Business: Senate Passes CARES Act; AHLA, AAHOA React | 03.26.20
- HOTELS: 3 keys to keep group, event business moving | 03.23.20
- Hotel Business: Looking for Local Business is Key to Recovery | 03.19.20
- Hotel Online: Knowland Insights: Coronavirus Pandemic – Hotel Group Impact and Actions | Updated 03.18.20
- Yahoo! News: Adding up all the coronavirus economic hits | 03.19.20
- Meet The Press: The Cost of COVID-19: Hotel Cancellation Rates | 03.17.2o4
- Skift: Coronavirus and Travel
Weekly Meetings Update
In the last 60 days meetings in the US have increased 123.3%. Week over week the increase was 32.4% with corporate events back up to 66.2%.
Breakdown of Meetings by Market Segment for the Week of November 9, 2020
The CARES Act
- American Hotel Lodging Association – Facts About Coronavirus
- Skift Webinar: What the $2 Trillion U.S. Stimulus Package Means for Your Travel Business
STR Statistics (source: STR.com)
- COVID-19: Hotel Industry Impact Updates
- November 8-14, 2020 (percentage change from comparable week in 2019), the U.S. Hotel industry recorded the following:
- Occupancy: 43.2% (-32.7%)
- Average daily rate (ADR): US$90.58 (-28.6%)
- Revenue per available room (RevPAR): US$39.11 (-52.0%)