RobertDouglas: Lenders Express Optimism, Anticipate Increase in Hotel Lending Volumes and Values
RobertDouglas conducted its eighth annual lender survey to measure the current state of financing market conditions and to ascertain critical future expectations through the lens of the specialist hospitality lending community…
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How to prepare your hotel for summer staycations
Becoming increasingly apparent is the unlikelihood of summer holidays abroad. With dreams of boarding planes and jetting away into the sunshine essentially dashed, all any of us can do is start thinking about staycations…
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U.S. Hotel Jobs Recovery Stalls, Unemployment Rises
The U.S. hotel sector’s unemployment rate is once again on the rise, as experts point to a slower-than-expected vaccine rollout hindering the industry’s recovery.
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A British millionaire has been ordered to demolish the $64 million chateau
British millionaire property developer Patrick Diter and his wife, Monica, wanted to buy a villa in Tuscany…
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Hospitality Financial Leadership – Serving Lunch
Almost 40 years ago now I was a busboy at a large and busy resort in the Canadian Rockies. I had transferred west a few months earlier from another hotel in the same chain where I had worked for two years…
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The Night Manager: What Happens When The Lights Go Down?
In the summer of 2013, when I was still working for Hyatt in New York City, I found myself facing a pretty tough decision.
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IHG Hotels & Resorts Rebrands, Restructures
IHG Hotels & Resorts has refreshed its branding and restructured its brands into four collections…
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Breakfast in the age of intermittent fasting
Let’s all just take a break from the constant news cycle on active COVID-19 case numbers and the rest of worldly distresses. While we’re at it, let’s take a break from eating, too.
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