The Hispanic Hotel Owners Association will hold the first session of a three-part series of International Hotel Investment Seminars on Feb. 12 and 13 at the Marriott East Side Hotel in Manhattan.

At the upcoming 2008 Hospitality Industry Investment Conference in June, c.e.o.s of The Blackstone Group, Marriott and Starwood Capital Group will discuss trends and innovations with Lalia Rach, divisional dean and HVS International Chair of New York University's Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism and Sports Management.

Despite the uncertain economy, 75% of Americans plan to spend as much money on leisure travel in the coming year as they did in the past year.

More than half of all U.S. adults say they would be more likely to select an airline, rental car or hotel that uses more environmentally friendly products and processes, according to the results of the latest travelhorizons™ survey by the Travel Industry Association (TIA) and Ypartnership.

More than half of all U.S. adults say they would be more likely to select an airline, rental car or hotel that uses more environmentally friendly products and processes.

The ever-changing lodging industry drew ever-changing attitudes during the Lodging Conference at the Arizona Biltmore.

The survey indicates that discount rates and capitalization rates for both limited-service and full-service hotels have generally held at or near the record lows demonstrated in the Winter 2007 survey.

The U.S. occupancy rate for July 2007 was 70.9 percent, down 0.5 percent over July 2006.

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Industry occupancy reached 66.8 percent in the three months ending June 2007.

The HVI tracks and discusses hotel values in each of the 66 major U.S. markets and for the United States as a whole.

The U.S. hotel industry had another record-breaking year, with $133.4 billion in total revenues and $26.6 billion in profits.

Travelers are taking a series of smaller vacations, and buying record amounts of travel products and services on the Internet, according to The PhoCusWright Consumer Travel Trends Survey.

In a five-year study just released by the ARDA International Foundation, timeshare resort sales shot up 81 percent and average resort size growth was at 32 percent.

Michael Petrone, director, AAA Tourism Information Development, said rising costs for energy, salaries and benefits are having an impact.

The company predicts major hotel markets will continue to see positive growth in 2007 with increased corporate demand and higher rates for the luxury sector.

HVS Hospitality Services and NYU's Preston Robert Tisch Center reported a record high occupancy level in 2006 and a 13.4 percent increase in RevPAR compared to 2005.

The demand for leisure travel continues to grow, but the manner in which Americans vacation continues to change, as revealed in the newly released Yesawich, Pepperdine, Brown & Russell/Yankelovich Partners 2007 National Leisure Travel Monitor.

Although the turmoil in the Middle East has worsened, the national savings rate is negative and the price of gasoline at the pump is likely to climb well above $3 per gallon in the months ahead, 95 percent of all active travelers in America took at least one vacation during the previous 12 months (on average, they took four), and 33 percent are planning to take more vacations this year than last (26 percent are planning to take fewer).

This issue's article will concentrate on the supply side of the supply and demand equation.