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Geoffrey Ballotti

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, WYNDHAM HOTELS & RESRTS

Search every verified Geoffrey Ballotti interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Geoff Ballotti, president and CEO of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, discussed the company’s outlook and industry trends in an April 2026 interview with Asian Hospitality. Ballotti said the company’s stock is “significantly undervalued” compared to its prior trading level above $110 per share. He described the recent performance of economy and mid-scale lodging as improving, noting that the last four weeks before Easter were better than the prior eight weeks)Skip. Ballotti attributed this to a pickup in infrastructure spending and investment, including data center projects, and said that bipartisan support for such spending is encouraging to small business owners. Ballotti also emphasized the importance of industry advocacy, stating that “there’s never been a more important time in our nation’s 250 years of advocacy than there is today.” He noted that Wyndham had over 100 franchise sales and development professionals at the conference, along with teams from sales, marketing, operations, and IT. Ballotti said the company’s own global conference, held every 18 months, is the only event more important to Wyndham than the Asian Hospitality show.

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“The other piece of it, Ed, is is what we're I think these small business owners are really encouraged about is a continued pickup in infrastructure spending, right? A continued pickup in investment. Think about the number of data centers that have been announced but have not yet started. There's a lot of push back from u a zoning standpoint, but those data centers will be built. There's so many billion dollar project”

“I think all stocks the market has been up. I mean, we still we believe our stock is significantly undervalued from where it was uh pre uh disruption. I mean, if you recall, we were uh we were trading up in uh in the 100s uh over $110 a share not too long ago. There is when you look at our growth algorithm, the piece that has been missing has been RevPAR, you look at our our our long-term growth algorithm and and econ”

“We've been a huge supporter of AOA since its foundation, 37 years ago, our chairman, our then chairman, Mr. Henry Silverman, and our then CFO, Mr. Steven P. Holmes, who is my chairman today of Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, decided that there was a need for advocacy among small business owners in the select service economy and mid-scale lodging space and we wrote a check for $100,000 that launched a HOA.”

“We just reported our fourth-quarter earnings last week and posted 5% global RevPAR growth, while India grew about 10% year‑on‑year.”

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