Some Urban Hotels Now Performing Better Midweek Than on Weekends Chartwell Hospitality’s Kevin Green speaks at a hotel roundtable in Memphis, Tennessee, hosted by Hotel News Now and the Pinkowski & Company. (Trevor Simpson) MEMPHIS, Tennessee — Shifts in business travel demand over the past few years have included trips that increasingly blend in leisure, as remote and hybrid work enable extended stays at hotels. Some hotel executives believe these shifts could be permanent. Hotel News Now, in partnership with Pinkowski & Company, convened a group of U.S. hotel industry executives for a roundtable about the state of the industry and the subject of change. Jerry Cataldo, president and CEO of Hostmark Hospitality Group, said once business travel began to come back in urban locations in April 2022, the patterns of travel differed from before. Some aspects of remote work remained, usually in a hybrid format. Employees with hybrid options typically choose Monday and Friday as their remote days, leaving Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday as prime business days, Cataldo said. “There’s been a change in the corporate behavior because people coming in and doing business and having dinners and so forth — they gotta be there when the people […]