Property taxes represent a substantial expense for hotels, significantly impacting profitability. A recent analysis of over 6,000 hotels, using CBRE’s Trends® in the Hotel Industry database, reveals dramatic disparities in property tax burdens based...

Desiree Flanary

Director of Property & Transaction Tax Service, CBRE Hotels Valuation and Advisory Services

CBRE Hotels

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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 meani...

David Lund

The Hotel Financial Coach

David Lund

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Hotel Budget Season: Are you Ready for 2026?

How far are you with your targets, budget, and plan of attack for next year? What REVPAR and GOPPAR do you need to achieve? Have you gone over what next year will look like in terms of performance, and does it describe all actions in detail? Does ev...

Remko West

COO & co-founder at Xotels

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Why Live Availability is Your Key to More Venue Bookings

For event planners, speed and convenience is everything. When they’re considering venue space, they need immediate answers and a smooth, hassle-free experience. Venues that can provide this quickly often find themselves with a significant competitiv...

Lauren Hall

Founder & CEO at iVvy

iVvy

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Monitoring The Rise in Technology Expenditures

With expectations of limited revenue growth in 2025, U.S. hoteliers are focusing on all expense categories within their hotels. Early indications are that property operators are doing a commendable job managing the more controllable expenses within ...

Robert Mandelbaum

Director of Research Information Services at CBRE Hotels

CBRE Hotels

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Hotel Financial Statements: Best Balance Sheet and P&L Formats for Hotels

What do hotel operations, outstanding guest experience, and long-term success as a hotel business have in common? None of these can be sustained without sound financial management. Understanding the key financial statements is the foundation on whic...

Emma NÄPÄNKANGAS

M.Sc. Student in Hospitality Management at EHL and Hospitality Strategy writer

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Managing Hotel Labor Costs Today

Managing labor costs in a hotel operation is crucial to maintaining a profitable business while delivering the service level that is commensurate with the scale of hotel. Finding this balance has been especially difficult in a post-COVID-19 environm...

Kasia M. Russell

Managing Director and Senior Partner with the HVS Portland office

HVS

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Strategic Tariffs and Their Impact on Travel and Hospitality

In recent times, the word ‘tariff’ has jumped from the back pages of economic textbooks to front-page headlines. Once the domain of trade negotiators and industry insiders, tariffs have become part of a broader political conversation, influencing ev...

Isabella Blengini

Associate at EHL Hospitality Business School

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Data Is the New Oil – But Only if You Have the Right Refinery

In the world of hospitality, everyone talks about data – how much you can collect, how fast you can access it, and how many dashboards you can create. But after two decades of working with the most sophisticated data models, I’ve learned something c...

Shams Chauthani

Chief Technology Officer

Otelier (formerly myDigitalOffice)

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The USALI 12th edition is finally out. Why is this good news and why it is never too late to adopt it.

On February 2025 HFTP finally launched the long-awaited 12th edition of the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry (USALI), the standardized financial reporting system the hospitality industry has relied on for decades. The release of t...

Giuliano Gasparini

Board member of HAMA Middle East

Hospitality Asset Managers Association (HAMA) MEA

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Navigating the Property Tax Maze: How Location and Hotel Type Impact Your Bottom Line

Creating Property Performance Commentaries

Hotel Budget Season: Are you Ready for 2026?

Why Live Availability is Your Key to More Venue Bookings

Monitoring The Rise in Technology Expenditures

Hotel Financial Statements: Best Balance Sheet and P&L Formats for Hotels

Managing Hotel Labor Costs Today

Strategic Tariffs and Their Impact on Travel and Hospitality

Data Is the New Oil – But Only if You Have the Right Refinery

The USALI 12th edition is finally out. Why is this good news and why it is never too late to adopt it.

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