Jan Freitag

Mr. Jan D. Freitag is Senior Vice President of Lodging Insights for STR and National Director, Hospitality Analytics for CoStar Group.

In his role, Mr. Freitag oversees a variety of projects, all charged with the accumulation and interpretation of global lodging data. Beginning in 2020 he oversaw the lodging content creation for the CoStar platform. He is a sought-after public speaker and is frequently quoted in trade publications and the general news media such as The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, Forbes, etc.

Mr. Freitag is member of the Urban Land Institute Hotel Development Council and the AHLA Hotel Investment Roundtable.

Prior to joining STR, Mr. Freitag was the Director of Content Integrity at hotelreports.com in upstate New York and a hospitality consultant with Ernst & Young in Phoenix. He holds a bachelor’s degree, with distinction, from the School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University, and received his Executive MBA, with honors, from Vanderbilt University. He resides in Nashville, TN.