How Federal Policy Shifts Are Reshaping U.S. Hotel Demand

Understand What’s Changing—and Where to Act

Federal funding changes and macroeconomic uncertainty are creating uneven performance across the hotel industry. This exclusive white paper from Kalibri Labs reveals where demand is contractingwhich markets are still growing, and how government travel pullbacks are impacting profitability.

 What You’ll Learn:

U.S. Hotel Demand Trends: Which markets, submarkets, location types, and segments are gaining or losing momentum in 2025—and by how much? Includes year-over-year analysis of both actualized demand (YTD) and 30-day future bookings (on-the-books).

Government Segment Deep Dive: How are U.S. markets and submarkets performing in terms of government-related demand? What impact are federal policy changes having on top government-reliant markets? This report includes a focused deep dive on the significantly impacted Washington, D.C. region.

Chain Scale Analysis: How economy, midscale, upper-midscale, upper tier, and extended stay brands are performing—both in aggregate and within government-related segments.

 Who Should Read This

  • Hotel owners & operators
  • Commercial strategy teams
  • Real estate investors & developers
  • Asset managers & consultants
  • Revenue & sales managers
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Kalibri Labs is the hospitality industry’s leading revenue performance platform, purpose-built to improve asset values by identifying the most profitable mix of business. Powered by a proprietary database of actualized and future booking data from over 35,000 hotels across 100 brands, Kalibri also integrates cost of customer acquisition, loyalty contribution, and length of stay—variables no other source can match. Its AI-driven models analyze performance trends across 334 U.S. markets and 975 submarkets to surface high-margin targets for commercial and operations teams. The Kalibri software platform also equips owners and real estate developers to conduct smarter, data-backed underwriting and site
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