Tell Me More podcasters Isaac Collazo from STR and Jan Freitag from CoStar join host Stephanie Ricca to discuss the U.S. hotel industry's turnaround in August, which signals the end of a summer that ended up having the third-highest room demand since STR began tracking data. The analysts share their predictions of what impact the U.S. interest-rate cut will have on hotel deals and the hotel pipeline. The discussion concludes with a look at the ever-expanding number of hotels around the world charging $1,000 per night or more.