With the increase in the number of fund-owned hotels in recent years, the industry has seen a spike in the number of hotels with asset managers. Acting as the middleman between an ownership group and a hotel’s operations teams, an asset manager’s job is to maximize the hotels profit by increasing revenues and improve operating efficiencies. The introduction of new ideas and strategies from the asset managers can often lead to tension or resistance from a hotel’s operations te

Not all brands are created equal, but the value of a strong brand and what it is that creates value for a brand remain a topic of debate. How do customers measure the value of one brand compared to another when so many variables exist? Brand Finance, an independent business valuation consulting company based in the UK, has made this task its mission. This week the company released its list of the 50 most valuable and powerful hotel brands, and why these brand deserved their r

A survey of leading European banks has shown that despite ongoing uncertainty surrounding Britain’s exit from the EU they are still positive about lending on hotel projects in Britain, ranking the UK as their most preferred hotel lending market along with Germany and the Netherlands. According to the European Hotel Lending Survey 2018, published by brokerage and investment services specialist HVS Hodges Ward Elliott, debt is widely available for all types of hotel projects ac