Hospitality — Saudi Hotels Face Oversupply Challenges; Sri Lanka Focuses on Digital Payments

Hospitality · 2026-04-15

TODAY'S SIGNAL — The hospitality industry is navigating a tension between aggressive capacity expansion and the infrastructure needed to make it pay off. Saudi Arabia's hotel boom is already producing rate compression — a cautionary signal for any market building supply ahead of proven demand. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka is taking the opposite approach, investing in payment infrastructure to convert…