The vaccination reacceleration across the country as a result of Delta variant concerns from COVID-19 should enable the United States to reach herd resiliency (65 percent+ of the adult population being fully vaccinated or previously infected) by early September, according to Lodging Analytics Research and Consulting (LARC)'s U.S. Lodging Industry and Outlook – September 2021 report.

Markets with a greater concentration of hotel demand from the leisure segments and less from international and in-house groups are likely to recover relatively faster.

That positive vaccination rate trend leads LARC to forecast that these demand segments of the hotel business will recover in this order: drive to leisure, fly-to domestic leisure, domestic business travel, large citywide conventions, small in-house group, international business travel and international leisure.