Federal obligations in hotels (except casino hotels) and motels (NAICS 721110)

Lodging contracts totaling $873.1 million

Federal travel, training, emergency lodging, and related official stays generate contract actions tagged to hotels and motels. The obligation rollup is $873,147,296.88. That is not a room-night census and not per-diem policy. Room counts are not in the packet facts.

Purchase cards and some travel-system payments may appear as many small contract actions, which helps explain a high award count. 15,539 tagged awards against $873,147,296.88 is a high-volume lodging pattern, not 15,539 unique hotel chains.

15,539 awards: many stays, modest average

Fifteen thousand five hundred thirty-nine awards against $873,147,296.88 averages about $56,200 per action. That is far below capital-equipment averages and above the smallest fastener catalog averages. Group lodging contracts can be larger; individual stay orders can be smaller. The average is the ratio of the two packet facts; the industry hub is the mix.

Casino hotels are excluded from this NAICS by definition. Residential property managers (531311) manage housing, not traveler lodging. Keep 721110 in its own cell when comparing this slice.

What hotel tags do and do not capture

A conference hotel contract should land in 721110 if the vendor is classified as a hotel or motel. A university dorm billed as a facilities contract may not. An emergency-shelter grant may be assistance without NAICS. The $873,147,296.88 follows the 721110 tag on 15,539 contract actions as recorded.

Assistance awards may not carry NAICS. Disaster-housing assistance to individuals or to states will usually miss this contract rollup. Use program pages for those streams.

A complete citation of this industry is $873,147,296.88 in USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 721110, hotels (except casino hotels) and motels, on 15,539 awards. Anything less—dropping the NAICS, dropping the word obligations, or dropping the contract-only universe—overstates what the extract contains. The packet facts do not include a fiscal year, so this guide does not invent one. Live tables on the industry hub can move when USAspending posts modifications; the harvested pair remains $873,147,296.88 and 15,539.

Obligations versus paid room charges

Lodging actions obligate when the order is placed or the master vehicle is booked, then pay after stay or on a cycle. The $873,147,296.88 is committed value on 15,539 tagged actions, not cash already paid for every night. Cancellations de-obligate. Outlay fields track payments.

Classification errors are expected at the margin. Vendors that straddle casino hotels, residential property managers, and emergency-housing grants may land in 721110 on some actions and in a neighbor on others. Residential property managers (531311) manage housing inventories, not traveler rooms. The public-record stance is to keep $873,147,296.88 attached to 721110 as tagged, then aggregate the 15,539 rows first; lodging catalogs are not read line by line. Re-tagging the extract by hand is out of scope for this overlay.

Using the lodging hub

Do not read 15,539 rows as a travelogue. Use aggregates on the hotels and motels industry page, then sample. This overlay states source (USAspending.gov), unit (obligations), dollars ($873,147,296.88), and count (15,539). The all-industries directory links property managers without merging their totals into this lodging figure.

Lodging tags exclude casino hotels by NAICS definition

Award count interprets the buying pattern. 15,539 actions producing $873,147,296.88 is tens of thousands of official-travel lodging actions, with about $56,200 per action as the simple average. That average hides mix: modifications, options, and delivery orders all increment count. 15,539 is not a count of unique companies and not a count of physical units. Use the hub amount sort to see whether a few large rows plus a long tail make up most of the tagged total.

Outlays remain a separate USAspending concept. An agency can obligate $873,147,296.88 across 15,539 tagged hotels (except casino hotels) and motels actions and pay on a different calendar. De-obligations after cancellations reduce the obligation ledger; they do not rewrite the fact that this NAICS has been a large tagged category in the harvest. Assistance without NAICS still sits outside even when the real-world activity looks similar. Program pages answer the grant question; this page answers the tagged-contract question.

Internal links on this file point only to the hotels (except casino hotels) and motels industry page and the all-industries directory. Those are the packet hrefs. Neighboring industry codes mentioned in prose are classification context only. Source note, copied from the packet: NAICS from USAspending contract awards. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS. The overlay’s job is to state $873,147,296.88, 15,539, the obligation unit, and the boundary around casino hotels, residential property managers, and emergency-housing grants.

Questions

How much federal contract spending is coded to hotels and motels?

NAICS 721110 shows $873,147,296.88 in obligations on 15,539 USAspending contract awards. That is hotels except casino hotels, and motels, as tagged. The unit is obligations, not outlays or room nights. Quote it as USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 721110, not as cash outlays. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so grants remain outside the 15,539-award extract behind $873,147,296.88.

Does this include casino hotels?

No. The Census title excludes casino hotels. This page’s $873,147,296.88 follows the 721110 tag on 15,539 awards. Other accommodation NAICS cover casino hotels if they appear in the extract at all. Residential property managers (531311) manage housing inventories, not traveler rooms. Keep $873,147,296.88 attached to 721110 as tagged on 15,539 actions; do not merge neighbor codes into the same unlabeled cell.

Why are there more than 15,000 awards?

Official travel generates many discrete lodging orders. 15,539 actions against $873,147,296.88 averages about $56,200. The industry hub shows the size mix, including any larger group-lodging vehicles. That pattern is tens of thousands of official-travel lodging actions, with about $56,200 per action as the simple average of $873,147,296.88 over 15,539 awards. Aggregate the 15,539 rows first; lodging catalogs are not read line by line.

Are disaster lodging grants included?

Usually not. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so they fall outside this contract extract. Use program pages for grants and the industry page for tagged 721110 contracts. This industry guide covers tagged contracts only: $873,147,296.88 obligated on 15,539 hotels (except casino hotels) and motels awards in USAspending. Outlays are a different field; assistance without NAICS is a different award type.