Today’s hotel property management services must always be in tune to what global changes are impacting travel to the USA such as China. According to different studies, Chinese tourists coming here are growing 15% to 20% per year. In order to increase revenues and market share, marketing plans must factor in this new breed of…
The recent news reports and media frenzy about housekeepers and guest safety from a hotel management consultant perspective suggests a review of related policies and procedures is a must now. Just this past week, the President of the American Hotel & Lodging Association was interviewed on the subject. The focus from his viewpoint and as…
In Part 1 of this blog topic, I talked briefly about the the cost of hotel receivership services related to a rents and profits action and a court appointed hotel receiver and interim hotel management. Where there is a judgement to collect, such as an outstanding balance owed on sales taxes or a defaulted second…
In this economy, many owners are turning to a lawyer and hotel motel consultant about canceling the management agreement when the hotel or resort is not performing according to plan. Worse, is if whatever gain is realized only benefits the operator, which can be the case if they have not invested any of their own…
Having a hotel operations expert take a look at your policies and procedures and supervisory practices is a good idea if you are planning to implement employee background checks as part of the screening and hiring process. Given the complexity surrounding the many issues of compliance with federal and state laws, it is best to…
This past week there were stories that we follow as part of our hospitality consulting practice discussing room rates, ADA reservations compliance and higher airfares. The prices rises are not a surprise as much as the lack of industry awareness on these ADA issues. Here is some of that commentary and our take on it:…
Several stories this past week that we followed as part of ourHotel Real Estate Investment hospitality consulting focused on hotel budget brands in China, government loans for smaller hotels and the average hotel real estate room sale price in 2010. Here is some of that commentary and our take on it: China is still the…
Three key stories reported in HotelNewsNow.com that we follow as part of our hospitality consulting focused on China’s economy, independent hotels in the Internet age and Google’s new distribution strategy that may affect how hotel rooms are booked online. Here are the full article links followed by our take on the impact: China Overtakes Japan…