The second annual AAHOA HerOwnership Conference & Retreat is in full swing! Nearly 250 women showed up in Dallas, Texas, for AAHOA's second annual event.

 

Today is Day One of the 2023 HerOwnership Conference & Retreat.

 

AAHOA's community of women hoteliers came have come together for two days packed with incredible insights into hospitality, entrepreneurship, leadership development, and wellness techniques.

 

Stay tuned for more coverage of the HerOwnership Conference & Retreat!

• Addressing Industry Issues: AAHOA Hosts Top U.S. Presidential Contender Vivek Ramaswamy
• Public Servant: A Conversation with U.S. Representative Russell Fry (R-SC)
• The Festival of Lights: Diwali’s Impact on the AAHOA Community

Last week, hundreds of AAHOA Members and leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., for AAHOA’S 2023 Fall National Advocacy Conference (FNAC) to raise awareness of the most pressing matters facing hotel owners across the country. Hoteliers had the opportunity to advance their policy priorities by meeting with
more than 200 offices and 70 Members of Congress. AAHOA Leadership participates in AAHOA’s 2023 Fall National Advocacy Conference, October 24-25, 2023, in Washington, D.C.

AAHOA hosted a bipartisan group of keynote speakers for its biannual event including:

● Representative Beth Van Duyne (R-TX)
● Representative Rich McCormick (R-GA)
● Representative Shri Thanedar (D-MI)

FNAC provided the opportunity for America’s hoteliers to establish relationships with legislators in our nation’s capital and engage directly with bipartisan policy experts and lawmakers. The policy decisions deliberated upon by these officials can have a significant effect on AAHOA Members and the hospitality industry at large.

 

Read the full press release here.

 

MORE ASSOCIATIONS ARE joining the American Hotel & Lodging Association in protesting the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) recently issued final ruling on the definition of joint-employer status. The ruling essentially broadens the definition to any “entity that has an employment relationship with the employees,” and AAHOA, AHLA and the other associations say it could damage the current franchise business model.

 

NLRB’s new standard, issued last week, defines a joint employer to be any company that shares or codetermines one or more essential terms and conditions of employment. Those include:

The final rule rescinds the 2020 rule that was promulgated by the prior board and applies the new definition of joint employer to any entity that can control the essential terms of employment whether or not such control is exercised and without regard to whether any such exercise of control is direct or indirect. The board says the new rule “more faithfully grounds the joint-employer standard in established common-law agency principles.”

 

Read the full article here.

Even in markets that suffered the worst slowdowns in 2020, the post-pandemic "bounceback" effect across the industry has sustained itself long enough that current travel patterns are expected to continue for the foreseeable future.
(Source: CNBC)

In the quest to fill their ranks with capable team members, some hoteliers are returning to a time-honored method for identifying a large number of job seekers — the career fair.
(Source: HospitalityNet)

According to recent U.S. workplace research, workers aged 50 and older occupy more than one-third of all hospitality jobs, with more expected to join the industry in the coming years.
(Source: OnRec)

Truist Securities reports, “Overall U.S. RevPAR was +4.6% y/y for the week ending 10/28/2023, per STR, above the prior week's result of +2.9%, and above the trailing 10-week average of +2.4%. Versus 2019, RevPAR was +33.4%, above the prior week’s result of +18.8%, and above the trailing 10-week average of +17.1%. We think last week's results were helped somewhat by Halloween pushing a day later this year (10/31: following week Tues. in 2023, following week Mon. in 2022, and current week Thurs. in 2019). Our take is that some group travel was pulled forward out of the holiday week so parents don't miss Halloween with their children. We could see weaker results next week. Upscale RevPAR: +6.7% y/y and +28.9% vs. 2019; Upper Midscale RevPAR: +3.7% y/y and +31.3% vs, 2019.”