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Navigating the Current: Key Takeaways from CHICOS 2025

Navigating the Current: Key Takeaways from CHICOS 2025

Last year’s CHICOS conference focused on the Caribbean region’s record-breaking RevPAR levels and appetite for new development. This year’s CHICOS theme, “Navigating the Current,” highlighted the potential for continued growth and development in the...

Shannon L. Sampson

Shannon L. Sampson

Senior Vice President and Director of South Texas

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Navigating the Current: Key Takeaways from CHICOS 2025

Why Automation is the Ally of Hotel Staff, and Not Their Replacement

Why Automation is the Ally of Hotel Staff, and Not Their Replacement

Hotels across regions are under pressure to operate efficiently despite persistent labor shortages, cost inflation, and global instability. In the US, political tensions, evolving immigration policies, and a slowdown in international tourism have ad...

Stephen Burke

Founder and CEO, Robosize ME

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Why Automation is the Ally of Hotel Staff, and Not Their Replacement

Hotels: Branded or Independent? 5 Key Considerations for Owners & Investors

A major decision for any hotel owner or investor is whether to affiliate their property with a brand. As ever so often, the trade-offs are as comprehensive as they are complex. We do note that the comparison is between the general independent vs bra...

Dan Voellm

CEO & Founder of AP Hospitality Advisors

Cayuga Hospitality Consultants

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Hotel Market Beat 2025 H1 - Greater Paris

Hotel Market Beat 2025 H1 - Greater Paris

In the first half of 2025, hotel transaction volume in Greater Paris exceeded €600 million, with a total of 28 hotels and 2,120 rooms sold. Although transaction volume has declined by 46%, there was a significant increase in the total number of prop...

Jean-Christophe Charolle

Jean-Christophe Charolle

Head of Hospitality, France

Cushman & Wakefield

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Hotel Market Beat 2025 H1 - Greater Paris

The Lodging Conference 2025: HVS Takeaways

The Lodging Conference 2025: HVS Takeaways

HVS was pleased to sponsor this fall’s pinnacle event for our industry, a highly-attended and hopeful Lodging Conference, despite the challenges currently facing our industry. HVS President, Rod Clough, MAI, CRE, MRICS, helped open the conference du...

Luigi Major

Vice President, Houston at HVS

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The Lodging Conference 2025: HVS Takeaways

For Hotel Owners Loyalty Program Benefits and Costs Continue to Rise

In 2024, the fees a hotel owner paid to support their brand’s guest loyalty program continued to grow at a relatively strong rate. During the year, the annual growth of guest loyalty program fees exceeded the increases in brand royalty payments, as ...

Robert Mandelbaum

Robert Mandelbaum

Director of Research Information Services at CBRE Hotels

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CBRE Hotels

How multi-typology strategy is designed to meet traveller demands

In the lead up to the Future Hospitality Summit - FHS World 2025, taking place at Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai from 27-29 October, we asked several industry partners about what’s next for hospitality investment in line with this year’s event theme: "Wh...

Vincent Miccolis

Vincent Miccolis

Managing Director Middle East, Africa and Türkiye The Ascott Limited

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H1 2025 European Hotel Transactions

Transaction activity remained high in the first half of 2025, marginally shy of the 2024 levels over the same period but, at €10.4 billion, above the average for the last decade. Single-asset deals were at the forefront of the investment landscape i...

Maxime Gauthier

Maxime Gauthier

Consulting and Valuation Analyst, HVS London

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Hotel Market Beat 2025 H1 - Germany

Hotel Market Beat 2025 H1 - Germany

The German hotel investment market showed a remarkable increase in transaction volume in H1 2025 compared to H1 2024, nearly reaching the total annual volume of 2024. However, the market is still considerably behind the pre-COVID levels.

Christine Mayer

Christine Mayer

Head of Valuation, Germany

Cushman & Wakefield

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Hotel Market Beat 2025 H1 - Spain

Hotel Market Beat 2025 H1 - Spain

The hotel investment market in Spain showed remarkable momentum and consolidation during the first half of 2025. With a total investment volume of €2.1 billion, the sector not only recovered to pre-pandemic levels but also recorded the third-highest...

Albert Grau

Partner Co-Head of Hospitality Spain

Cushman & Wakefield

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Hotel Market Beat 2025 H1 - Spain