KKR Provides €300m Financing for Tristan Capital Partners’ EPISO 6 Acquisition of easyHotel Platform
KKR provided €300m debt financing for Tristan's €400m+ easyHotel acquisition, secured by 48 hotels with 4,700 rooms across 11 European countries.
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Understanding Flow Thru
The guide explains how to calculate and manage flow through metrics to measure how much additional revenue converts to profit across hotel departments.
By David Lund, The Hotel Financial Coach, David Lund
The Naughty vs. The Nice Revenue Manager
Bartnick argues effective revenue managers must balance firm commercial decisions with diplomatic communication to maximize profits while maintaining team relationships.
By Fabian Bartnick, Founder, Infinito
The revenue growth playbook: Strategies for independent hotels
The guide outlines pricing optimization, distribution balance, and incremental revenue tactics specifically for independent properties using data-driven approaches.
Unlocking Incremental Revenue in Hospitality: October 2025 Cayuga Hospitality Consultants Conference
Industry panel explores practical strategies for hotels to generate additional revenue through retail, video marketing, wellness products, and experiential amenities.
By Mandy Murry and Gary Isenberg
Why is Food Waste Hotel Owners’ Next Big Thing
The whitepaper provides financial modeling templates and case studies showing hotel owners can achieve significant savings, with Constance Hotels saving $2.3M through food waste reduction programs.
Marriott didn't spend $355M to buy 36 small-room hotels
The acquisition gives Marriott a proven urban lifestyle concept with 8,700 rooms and plugs citizenM's design-focused guests into Bonvoy's 260M-member loyalty program.
By Nicolas Vorsteher, Founder & CEO, chatlyn
Anticipating the Surge: How Hospitality America is Positioning for the 2026 FIFA World Cup
Hospitality America outlines a four-pillar revenue strategy targeting 20-45% ADR increases across 16 host cities, with emphasis on rate integrity and spillover market capture.
By Daniel Lock, VP of Commercial Strategy, Hospitality America
Waterford Hotel Group and Maverick Hotels Announce Strategic Merger to Drive Future Growth
The combined company now manages 50+ properties across New England to the Midwest, including premium Marriott and Hilton-branded hotels.
How a $2B Hospitality Company Collapsed Into Evictions and Bankruptcy | WSJ What Went Wrong
WSJ examines the financial missteps and strategic failures that led a major hospitality company from $2B valuation to bankruptcy and property evictions.
One Revenue Manager. Ten Looks. The Revenue Management wardrobe.
Bartnick outlines ten revenue management scenarios and contrasts amateur mistakes with expert strategies for maximizing hotel profitability.
By Fabian Bartnick, Founder, Infinito
Following completion of citizenM integration with Marriott International, citizenM hotel ownership group debuts Another Star and announces refinancing
Another Star closes $685M refinancing led by J.P. Morgan following Marriott's acquisition of the citizenM brand and integration into Marriott Bonvoy.
What Is Hospitality Financial Leadership - Defining the Concept
A podcast series explores financial leadership concepts in hospitality, using AI-generated discussions based on the author's writings.
David Lund, The Hotel Financial Coach, David Lund
Mews and YouLend deliver €2 million in Flexible Financing to hotels across Europe and the US
Mews, the operating system for hospitality and shared spaces, has announced that its embedded financing partnership with YouLend has provided nearly €2 million in funding to hotels across Europe and the US. With the partnership now live across multiple eligible markets, hotels can access flexible funding directly through the Mews platform. The latest addition of France completes the rollout, extending Flexible Financing to one of Europe’s most dynamic hospitality markets.
Budget Season 2026: Why guest data is your most valuable planning tool
As budgeting season rolls around, it’s easy for hoteliers to fall back on familiar habits: looking at last year’s numbers, trusting gut instincts, or relying on the usual KPIs. But in today’s fast-changing hospitality landscape, planning in a bubble can lead you far off course.
CEO Pay in Hospitality 2025
In last year’s study of CEO pay, we explored the ongoing shifts in compensation following the pandemic’s disruptive impact on the hospitality industry. This year, we turn our focus to a period defined by mounting global uncertainty, driven by political transitions, tariffs and worldwide trade deals. Amid this backdrop, reassessing CEO compensation and corresponding performance metrics has been critical.
By Keith Kefgen and Emily Whitmore
Influencer discussions on AI bubble surge 200% on X as concerns grow over massive investments, reveals GlobalData
Discussions of the ‘AI Bubble’ among social media influencers surged in October 2025, increasing by almost 200% on platform ‘X’ compared to the previous month. This dramatic escalation was fueled by growing concerns over the sustainability of massive investments in AI versus its tangible returns, highlighting fears among influencers of an impending collapse similar to the dot-com or housing bubbles, reveals the Social Media Analytics Platform of GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
Skift and Mews reveal how guest-first strategies drive hotel revenue and long-term hotel growth
A new joint report by Skift and Mews, "Why Hotels and Their Investors Are Leaving Millions on the Table," challenges one of hospitality's oldest assumptions: that success should be measured by rooms sold.
How the USALI 12th Revised Edition Enhances Hotel Benchmarking and Drives Hotel Performance
Questions are commonplace in any hotel business. Who hasn't been in a budget meeting or financial review when someone has asked if the food and beverage margins are competitive, or if the spa department should be generating more revenue, or how labor efficiencies compare to other properties of the same size? Transforming these questions into actionable insights is what hotel benchmarking can do—creating concrete, data-backed comparisons.
By Arlene Ramirez, Senior Vice President of Learning, HFTP
HotelRunner Launches Ruby: The Embedded and Autonomous Finance Infrastructure for Travel
Unlike generic fintechs retrofitted for tourism, HotelRunner Ruby is travel-native: unifying bookings, payments, and compliance in real time. Alongside tackling long-standing settlement delays and frictions, Ruby delivers faster, more transparent, and regulation-ready payment flows, reshaping the financial backbone of global travel commerce. More than settlement, this is just the beginning of a roadmap transforming how global travel moves money.