With hotel occupancies hovering around an average of 50 percent, owners and operators are seeking new ways to generate revenue beyond traditional overnight stays.

One solution in the works is day use of hotel rooms. Hotel companies Accor and Hilton are promoting the practice and individual hotels are also accommodating work-from-hotel concepts to boost business performance during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this episode, Lodging Leaders explores the practice of day use in the hotel industry. We feature Yannis Moati, founder of Hotels by Day in New York City, a booking platform; Raj Chudasama of Kriya Hotels in Dallas, Texas, which owns a co-working franchise and also rents hotel rooms for day use; and Andrew Alexander, president of Red Roof in Columbus, Ohio, which promoted the work-from-hotel idea at the peak of the coronavirus crisis.