In this special episode recorded on June 2, 2025, at the NYU IHIF conference in New York City, STR's Isaac Collazo and CoStar's Jan Freitag join CoStar News' Stephanie Ricca to talk about the latest U.S. hotel industry forecast revision from CoStar Group and Tourism Economics. Collazo and Freitag debate what might spur positive or negative deviations from this latest forecast as the rest of the year plays out, including changes in demand, consumer confidence and more. Visit www.costar.com/hotelnews.