Sage Hospitality's Jeff Michael joins Revinate's Hotel Moment podcast to discuss how hotels can move from data paralysis to action, aligning revenue, sales, and marketing teams around profitability.
Morgan Stanley's Stephen Grambling breaks down how the K-shaped economy, AI, brand proliferation, and macro factors like inflation are reshaping hotel stock valuations and REIT investment strategies.
Host Hotels CIO shares investment strategies and provides 10 essential metrics and practices for hotel GMs to better communicate with owners.
Q Hotels achieved nearly 40% uplift in incremental revenue by training front office staff to upsell systematically at check-in.
An industry veteran breaks down hotel financial management into digestible concepts using AI-generated podcast format to make accounting accessible to non-financial hospitality professionals.
A hotel finance expert with four decades of experience uses AI to transform his writings into podcast discussions aimed at demystifying hotel financial management.
Colliers' Owens discusses how Covid shifted investment focus to experiential destinations, while tighter capital markets require owners to balance performance recovery with higher financing costs.
A finance-focused podcast series uses AI technology to transform written hotel financial guidance into audio discussions.
A podcast series explores financial leadership concepts in hospitality, using AI-generated discussions based on the author's writings.
Having worked in the hotel business for over four decades, I know most people think the numbers are the “hard” part of hospitality. There’s a common belief that the financials are best left to professionals who can sort out the complex interplay between the different departments of a hotel. It’s just too challenging and complicated for anyone who didn’t go to accounting school.
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Having worked in the hotel business for over four decades, I know most people think the numbers are the “hard” part of hospitality. There’s a common belief that the financials are best left to professionals who can sort out the complex interplay between the different departments of a hotel. It’s just too challenging and complicated for anyone who didn’t go to accounting school.
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.
Having worked in the hotel business for over four decades, I know most people think the numbers are the “hard” part of hospitality. There’s a common belief that the financials are best left to professionals who can sort out the complex interplay between the different departments of a hotel. It’s just too challenging and complicated for anyone who didn’t go to accounting school.
Having worked in the hotel business for over four decades, I know most people think the numbers are the “hard” part of hospitality. There’s a common belief that the financials are best left to professionals who can sort out the complex interplay between the different departments of a hotel. It’s just too challenging and complicated for anyone who didn’t go to accounting school.This idea is just a myth—one you can bust wide open with this Podcast Series. I have used Notebook LM to read my writings and magically turn them into a discussion - Just For You!
Having worked in the hotel business for over four decades, I know most people think the numbers are the “hard” part of hospitality. There’s a common belief that the financials are best left to professionals who can sort out the complex interplay between the different departments of a hotel. It’s just too challenging and complicated for anyone who didn’t go to accounting school.This idea is just a myth—one you can bust wide open with this Podcast Series. I have used Notebook LM to read my writings and magically turn them into a discussion - Just For You!
In this episode of The Conscious Hospitality Podcast, host David Arraya sits down with David Lund, widely known as The Hotel Financial Coach, for a transformative conversation about the evolving role of financial leadership in the hospitality industry.
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To get your department managers to play ball with their numbers in your hotel, you need a system they can follow, a sort of roadmap they can use to stay on track every month. Teach them this, and you will have an engaged team that buys into playing their financial part. It's not magic, but the results are MAGICAL if applied consistently.
Welcome to the "exciting" world of hotel accounting policy manuals and internal control reviews. Having a set of "rules for the road" is an essential tool that any hotel needs to be successful. Join us and explore what you need to know to get cracking!