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What is key to meeting your ADR goals?
The answer is simple – your Front Desk team For the majority of hotels, the only way to achieve a higher RevPAR next year is going to be to achieve […]
Airbnb: they are coming after the business market!
Having stolen a march on the hotel space, Airbnb is now finding new opportunities in business travel. By connecting individual property owners and leisure travelers, Airbnb has disrupted the hotel […]
French Hotel Industry Performance September 2015
September was encouraging for hotels on the Côte d’Azur and in regional France as they continued to post growth in occupancy and average rates. On the other hand, having stagnated, […]
Metrics align to support Japan’s hotel growth
Overall fundamentals look good for Japan, and most people in the industry expect strong performance ahead. Most main stakeholders in the Japanese hospitality industry remain positive about market conditions across […]
Lodging Forecast 2016
For the past several years we have put out our lodging forecast for 2016 at the beginning of Q4 as we’ve had time to analyze the data and hear from […]
Rugby World Cup boosts RevPAR
The opening weekend of the Rugby World Cup provided a boost to hotels in the host cities, which reported a ‘significant’ growth in revenue per available room (RevPAR). According to […]
Corporate Hotel Rate Negotiations for 2016
As the corporate and contract hotel rate negotiation season is about to begin, the outlook is for the largest increases in the past three decades. Corporate and contract rate negotiations […]
Franc fumbles affect hotels in Switzerland
A look at STR Global data year-to-date July reveals that Switzerland’s hotels overall occupancy rate has not changed compared to the same period last year. The level could be maintained […]
Europe hotel results for August
Compared to August 2014, European hotel results saw a 2.2% increase in occupancy to 77.1%, a 6.4% increase in ADR to €119.34 and an 8.7% increase in RevPAR to €92.05 […]
More growth in 2016 UK hotels forecast
London hoteliers saw a record 2014 but so far 2015 hasn’t replicated this stellar performance, according to new PwC analysis. While average performance metrics are still very high by most […]