https://theleisureeconomy.com/ Independent intelligence on hospitality, travel, entertainment and destinations: how businesses, investors, developers and destinations compete for consumer leisure time. en Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://theleisureeconomy.com/hotels-becoming-destinations.html https://theleisureeconomy.com/hotels-becoming-destinations.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Hospitality The strongest properties are building enough food, culture, wellness and access to become the reason for the trip—not merely the place where it begins and ends. https://theleisureeconomy.com/hotel-becomes-itinerary.html https://theleisureeconomy.com/hotel-becomes-itinerary.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Hospitality A property gains pricing power when leaving becomes optional rather than necessary. The difference is not the number of amenities—it is the quality of the day they create. https://theleisureeconomy.com/human-service-minutes.html https://theleisureeconomy.com/human-service-minutes.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Hospitality Hotels measure labour cost per occupied room. They rarely measure the guest-facing attention that labour produces. That missing metric is becoming commercially important. https://theleisureeconomy.com/human-touch-luxury-product.html https://theleisureeconomy.com/human-touch-luxury-product.html Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Hospitality Automation is making basic hospitality faster and cheaper. The result will not be the disappearance of human service, but its concentration where guests can pay for attention. https://theleisureeconomy.com/mexico-world-cup-rates-47.html https://theleisureeconomy.com/mexico-world-cup-rates-47.html Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Entertainment In Mexico City, the 2026 World Cup lifted average hotel rates while occupancy moved backwards. The result is a warning against confusing pricing ambition with realised demand. https://theleisureeconomy.com/event-anchored-weekends.html https://theleisureeconomy.com/event-anchored-weekends.html Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Entertainment Mexico’s World Cup hotels raised rates 47 percent and lost occupancy. Las Vegas has watched its Formula 1 premium evaporate in two years. The event premium is real, brief, and routinely overestimated. https://theleisureeconomy.com/beyond-all-inclusive.html https://theleisureeconomy.com/beyond-all-inclusive.html Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Hospitality The most elevated hospitality experiences are moving beyond unlimited consumption — and toward something far more valuable: a world that operates around the guest. https://theleisureeconomy.com/article.html https://theleisureeconomy.com/article.html Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Travel The premium traveller is no longer buying more. They are buying certainty over time, space and who else is in the room — and that changes how rate is built.