Dive Brief:
- Wyndham Hotels & Resorts has opened an Echo Suites extended stay hotel in Bozeman, Montana, the hotel company’s newly appointed chief development officer, David Wilner, announced on LinkedIn.
- The 124-key hotel, owned by franchisor Yesh Bozeman Partners LLC, marks the 20th open Echo Suites hotel, according to the social post. The economy new-construction brand launched in 2022 and opened its first hotel in 2024.
- The extended stay category, with stable growth forecast for 2026, remains a top priority for Wyndham, according to company executives.
Dive Insight:
Wyndham has dozens of Echo Suites hotels under active construction and dozens more breaking ground this year, with the brand pipeline currently totaling more than 300 hotels, Wilner wrote on LinkedIn. Last month, Wilner replaced Amit Sripathi as CDO after Sripathi was named Wyndham’s new chief financial officer.
Wyndham saw strong momentum behind the Echo Suites brand throughout 2025, including half a dozen brand openings in the fourth quarter alone, CEO Geoff Ballotti shared during a February earnings call.
The extended stay segment more broadly “continues to perform very well,” Mike Mueller, Wyndham’s head of extended stay brands, told Hotel Dive earlier this month. In 2025, extended stay “performed very well relative to the transient rest of the industry,” and “early data from Q1 already points in the same direction,” Mueller said.
Earlier this year, Sripathi told Hotel Dive that the extended stay segment would continue to stand out for its resilient demand and more predictable operating models, regardless of macro volatility. As such, Wyndham will work to “scale Echo Suites market by market” in 2026, he said.
Currently, the brand operates across Arizona, Texas, Virginia and other states.
Wyndham competitor Choice Hotels International is also actively expanding its extended stay portfolio, recently opening three hotels under its Everhome Suites brand in Texas, Kentucky and New Jersey.
