Independent hoteliers are urged to look beyond occupancy rates during peak season and examine profitability by channel, room type, rate plan, and cost structure.
A 30-year hotel operator and Live Oak Bank share why proactive lender communication, early refinancing prep, and strong management credentials are critical to protecting asset value.
A strategic read on villa discounting, arguing that repeated rate reductions signal positioning or presentation gaps rather than price problems, and erode long-term rate integrity.
STR and HotStats data show U.S. hotel GOP margins remain below 2019 levels despite RevPAR growth, with franchise fees, A&G, and SaaS costs rising faster than revenue while owners absorb all downside risk.
A USHCC/Airbnb-commissioned poll of 1,516 U.S. adults finds 76% of Latino adults view short-term hosting as a practical income supplement, with retirement security and multigenerational wealth as key motivators.
The 10th annual HFE Conference, held in Tokyo, brought together academics and industry leaders from Asia, Europe, and North America to discuss AI, PropTech, real estate investment, and demographic change.
Fairmas promotes its FairPlanner FP&A software by contrasting manual, spreadsheet-based hotel finance workflows with an integrated planning platform that connects budgets, forecasts, and operational data.
With U.S. hotel margins compressing for a third consecutive year, the article argues supplier payments represent an untapped profit center via rebates, working capital gains, and AP automation.
STR raised its 2026 U.S. RevPAR forecast to 4.4% growth, and this piece explains how hoteliers should translate national trends into property-level 2027 budgets by aligning financial and demand forecasts.
A detailed framework for managing hotel opening budgets, covering stabilization timelines of 36-48 months, comp set forecasting, pricing tactics, KPI tracking, and common financial mistakes to avoid.
A free webinar offering hoteliers a step-by-step budgeting framework to build, understand, and defend hotel budgets to ownership and corporate stakeholders.
A hotel finance coach outlines three habits for building a defensible hotel budget: zero-based construction, driver-based forecasting, and presenting it as a personal commitment to ownership.
The USALI 12th Revised Edition modernizes hotel accounting standards with new schedules for energy/waste, labor, and channel distribution, and offers practical tools for vacation rental operators too.
Argues that Excel-based revenue workflows create costly decision delays across hotel portfolios, and outlines what an effective RMS should deliver in terms of explainability, consolidation, and total cost of ownership.
HVS founder Steve Rushmore explains why the debt coverage ratio method produces a more defensible hotel valuation than the loan-to-value approach, with worked examples showing how lender inputs drive value and loan sizing.
Driftwood Capital's white paper argues hotel credit is materially distinct from corporate direct lending, citing a 0.18 correlation, lower CRE charge-off rates, and 76% on-time CMBS loan repayment through 2020-2025.
The author argues that USALI should be extended, not abandoned, to cover the owner-operator cost split unique to vacation rental management, preserving comparability across the sector.
The article argues that manual reporting workflows create costly decision lag for hotel revenue teams, and proposes auditing time-to-action across signal, decision, and execution timestamps.
Newport Hospitality Group details how it uses STR Custom Forecasts and CoStar analytics to build hotel budgets with segment-level comparisons, mix modeling, and year-over-year commentary in a single platform.
A hospitality consultant argues that most hotels lose ancillary revenue not from product gaps, but from poor language framing, mistimed offerings, and invisible services that prevent willing guests from spending.