This article describes some of the opportunities that are being taken up in various hotel markets, with the aim of improving hotel trading conditions in the short term and a hotels’ positioning and competitiveness long after the recession is over
Industry Insights
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Adapt, Survive and Overcome
This article describes some of the opportunities that are being taken up in various hotel markets, with the aim of improving hotel trading conditions in the short term and a hotels’ positioning and competitiveness long after the recession is over
A New Approach To Appraising Hotels
Steve Rushmore Monthly article in Lodging Hospitality.
A Key Component to Asset Management - The Sales & Marketing Assessment
As part of the overall asset management strategy for a hotel asset, owners should certainly ask, “How can our sales and marketing efforts be more focused? Made more efficient and effective?”
Empty Beds in Luxury Accommodation
HVS is included in an article published by the Berliner Zeitung regarding the luxury hotel situation in the German capital and how it is being affected by the current financial crisis.
Canadian Lodging Outlook January 2009
Smart Revenue Management Techniques For 2009
Yield Management in 2009: How to Keep Your Hotel Up and Running in a Downturn
Yield management has always been a good idea for hotels, but one that recessed with years of record demand and record profits. Now that the downturn has many hotels fighting for survival, we need to bring yield management back to the foreground.
Putting the Past to Use: A Hotel Forecasting Tool for the Current Downturn
Most hotel operators are currently facing revenue losses. Using our store of historical data from the prior downturn, HVS has developed an analytic tool for use in projecting income and expense items through the downturn.
Lenders' Dilemma: Work Out Or Foreclose
Steve Rushmore's Monthly article in Lodging Hospitality
The Status of the Gaming Industry: A Recap of 2008
The effects of the challenging economic conditions in 2008 on major gaming markets, as well as other significant events and developments impacting these markets, are briefly summarized in this article.
Managing through a Recession Without Destroying a Hotel's Long-Term Value
While it is important to take actions during a recession to respond to economic conditions, it is also important to know when not to do something that causes short- and long-term harm to an asset.
Industry Insights
We have written thousands of articles about all aspects of hospitality, including valuations, investing, lending, operations, asset management, and much more.
Steve Rushmore Monthly article in Lodging Hospitality.
As part of the overall asset management strategy for a hotel asset, owners should certainly ask, “How can our sales and marketing efforts be more focused? Made more efficient and effective?”
HVS is included in an article published by the Berliner Zeitung regarding the luxury hotel situation in the German capital and how it is being affected by the current financial crisis.
Yield management has always been a good idea for hotels, but one that recessed with years of record demand and record profits. Now that the downturn has many hotels fighting for survival, we need to bring yield management back to the foreground.
Most hotel operators are currently facing revenue losses. Using our store of historical data from the prior downturn, HVS has developed an analytic tool for use in projecting income and expense items through the downturn.
Steve Rushmore's Monthly article in Lodging Hospitality
The effects of the challenging economic conditions in 2008 on major gaming markets, as well as other significant events and developments impacting these markets, are briefly summarized in this article.
While it is important to take actions during a recession to respond to economic conditions, it is also important to know when not to do something that causes short- and long-term harm to an asset.
Robust demand in urban centers continues to drive Canadian hotel values despite high interest rate environment.