How Brexit and the Pound are Impacting Operations and Profits at UK Hotels

by Katherine Doggrell | hotelanalyst.co.uk
June 2018

The UK is not due to leave the European Union until March 2019, but the country’s hotels are already feeling Brexit’s impact.

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How Hotel Managers Can Generate Profits Above and Beyond Owner’s Expectations

by Mark Starkov | hebsdigital.com
June 2018

The hospitality industry is enjoying its longest expansion and healthiest growth in decades, yet, are the owners happy?

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The Evolution Of Luxury: Exploring A Shift In The Luxury Travel Market

As millennials are growing older, the luxury travel market is trying to keep up with and understand a tech-savvy demographic of buyers with extremely different demands and desires than the generation before. As this demographic reaches an age where they possess immense buying power, they have become the primary targets for marketers who are still trying to define what it is that this generation desires.

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Debunking the Impact of Blockchain on Hotel Distribution

A recent article on the Nasdaq website called “How Blockchains Are Changing the Hotel Industry” claims that blockchain-based platforms “offer promising solutions” to particular areas of difficulty in the hospitality industry, including blockchain-based hotel booking platforms. Before we jump on analyzing blockchain technology’s impact on hospitality, let’s quickly review what this new technology and some of its more popular applications are all about.

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Extended-Stay Hotels Growth or Performance?

When investing in hotels, recent year-over-year trends in revenues and profits, along with current performance values, are two of the metrics most frequently evaluated.  Investors need to balance the current levels of a property’s occupancy, ADR, revenues and profits, with the recent direction of the changes in these measurements.  In an attempt to time the market, some people prefer to invest in hotels that are currently achieving low levels of revenues and profits, but are coming out of the bottom of the cycle and achieving strong gains on the top and bottom lines.  Others prefer hotels that have are approaching, or are achieving, peak levels of performance.

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