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Budgeting for 2026: A Strategic Approach for Hoteliers

Budget season isn’t just about numbers—it’s about vision. As a hotel finance executive, I have found that success in 2026 will come down to discipline, collaboration, and clarity. Hoteliers face a marketplace defined by uncertainty: shifting demand patterns, evolving technology, rising operating costs, and persistent talent pressures. Yet, uncertainty is precisely why a strong, collaborative budgeting process is essential.

Paul Isaacson
By Paul Isaacson, Chief Financial Officer, Hospitality America
Opinion Article

Budgeting for Experiential Tech in 2026: Why Hoteliers Cannot Afford to Wait

As summer winds down and the robust vacation season slows, it’s time for resort and venue operators to shift gears and ramp up for budget season. Fall offers the perfect opportunity to take a step back, evaluate what worked, what didn’t, and new opportunities to improve both operations and revenue in the coming year. With advances in experiential technology and AI, businesses can plan smarter, crafting memorable guest experiences that align with evolving expectations while staying budget-conscious.

Tracee Nalewak
By Tracee Nalewak, Chief Growth Officer, UrVenue
Opinion Article

The Hotel Brands of the World

About a year ago, I shared the Hotel Brand Pyramid a chart I had picked up at a seminar. It turned out to be both old and incomplete, and the feedback came in fast: wrong brands, missing brands, and far too simplistic for today’s hotel landscape. Fair enough. So, together with the 10minutes.news team, we set out to make the definitive version: The Hotel Brands of the World infographic.

Martin Soler
By Martin Soler, Partner, Soler & Associates
Report

How AI sharpens decision-making for hospitality

Running a hotel portfolio means being in a constant balancing act. One property might be chasing group business, another is battling seasonal dips, and a third is pushing to lift guest satisfaction scores. Decisions pile up fast, and too often leaders only get clarity when the numbers are already in and the chance to act has passed.

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Opinion Article

A Recipe for Cost Control Success: 5 Lessons from F&B for Hotel Budget Season

As hotels move into budget season, executives are once again scrutinizing expenses across departments. Food and beverage (F&B) often takes center stage because the practices for managing costs there are well established: portion sizes are tracked, spoilage is audited, and menus are engineered to maximize profitability. Operators know that without discipline, margins can erode quickly.

Mike Pavicich
By Mike Pavicich, Director, Global Sales, SalesAndCatering.com, LLC
Opinion Article

Lessons in Scalable Growth: How We Closed 150+ Transactions Across 20 Markets Without Losing Local Relevance

Scaling a business is easy to talk about, but rarely easy to do, especially when the ambition involves not only new markets, but also new cultures, regulations, and expectations. Over the past decade, I’ve had the opportunity to support the growth of a global hospitality group, closing over 150 transactions and entering more than 20 new markets across EMEA. Through that journey, I’ve learned that sustainable expansion isn’t about copying and pasting a playbook. It’s about designing a framework flexible enough to adapt - yet rigorous enough to scale.

Ramsay Rankoussi
By Ramsay Rankoussi, Regional Chief Development Officer, Radisson Hotel Group
Podcast

Looking Beyond Data: A Reflection on the Bigger Picture

As hospitality leaders, we are conditioned to focus on a specific set of metrics. We live and breathe RevPAR, occupancy, ADR, and direct booking percentages. These numbers are the bedrock of our operational control, and rightly so. The latest Insights Podcast prompted me to think more about the data we often overlook.

Florencia Cueto Pedrotti
Florencia Cueto Pedrotti, Director, Global Engagement & Sales Enablement, Shiji
Opinion Article

AI, Michelin Stars & Real Estate: Highlights from HFE 2025

On July 7–8, 2025, EHL Hospitality Business School’s Lausanne campus welcomed the 9th Hospitality Finance & Economics (HFE) Conference, organized in collaboration with the Center for Urban and Real Estate Studies at Hitotsubashi University and the NUS Institute of Real Estate & Urban Studies. Seventeen researchers from four continents turned each session into a dynamic and insightful exchange on topics ranging from climate risk and affordability to the burgeoning world of digital real-estate markets.

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By René-Ojas Woltering and Masaki Mori
Opinion Article

Creating Property Performance Commentaries

Creating a great commentary for your owners and corporate is a monthly mainstay in almost every hotel. It can also be a large dose of drudgery. This article is about how you can create an effective system in your hotel to generate a strong and meaningful commentary based on information from all areas of your business. Creating this kind of information system in your hotel is a powerful tool. This commentary power tool can help you drive superior financial results if you approach it with the right spirt and a system to follow.

David Lund
By David Lund, The Hotel Financial Coach, David Lund
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Opinion Article

Hotel Franchises: Owning & Investing Considerations

Hotel franchises have become a dominant force in today’s hospitality landscape. Hotel franchising has become the preferred model for global hospitality brands pursuing asset-light strategies to grow quickly without owning property, with the percentage of global franchise rooms rising to 63% in 2022.

Emma Näpänkangas
By Emma Näpänkangas, M.Sc. Student in Hospitality Management, EHL