The chairman of Omni Hotels & Resorts says its Southern properties, including the Omni Nashville Hotel in Tennessee, are seeing a recovery in group-travel business. People are traveling in packs again. More than two years after the pandemic grounded group travel, hotels are finally selling blocks of rooms. Bookings for corporate events, conferences and large social gatherings such as weddings and reunions started picking up steam this spring and have accelerated for many hotels and resorts through the summer, analysts and hotel owners said.

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