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Hotel boom due to remote work
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Laptop-toting workers who can do their jobs anywhere are driving an increase in hybrid business-leisure trips.
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Fancy working from a hotel room instead of the office? Interest in extended-stay hotels has grown, driven in part by a rise in remote work as well as an increase in work crews moving from site to site for infrastructure investments in projects like road building and green energy.
And because visitors tend to stay longer and need less housekeeping, extended-stay hotels – particularly those focused on more cost-conscious travellers – are less expensive to build and operate than their full-service counterparts.
