In the lead up to the Future Hospitality Summit - FHS World 2025, taking place at Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai from 27-29 October, Amr El Nady provides insights for international investors looking to enter the UAE’s hospitality sector, including the re...

Amr El Nady

Head of Hotels & Hospitality MEA and Managing Director, Global Hotel Desk, JLL

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The Hidden Cost of Manual Accounting in Hospitality

Manual accounting may seem like a manageable process—especially for small hospitality operations—but the reality is far more costly than it appears on the surface. From labor-intensive data entry to delayed financial insights, manual systems create ...

Jon Giuliani

Chief Revenue Officer at Ximplifi

Ximplifi

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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 ...

Paul Isaacson

Chief Financial Officer

Hospitality America

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Sustainability and Investing: An Incompatible Combination?

On June 12, 2025, EHL and Asteria Investment Managers held its third-annual Sustainable Investing Forum on the school’s flagship campus in Lausanne. The focus of this year’s event was on shareholder engagement as a critical driver of sustainable str...

Philippe Masset

Associate Professor at EHL Hospitality Business School

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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 opp...

Brad Van Orsow

Director of Marketing at UrVenue

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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. Fa...

Martin Soler

Partner at Soler & Associates

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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, s...

Mike Pavicich

Director, Global Sales at SalesAndCatering.com, LLC

SalesAndCatering.com, LLC

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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 o...

Ramsay Rankoussi

Regional Chief Development Officer, Radisson Hotel Group

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

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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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 N...

René-Ojas Woltering

PhD, Assistant Professor of Real Estate Finance at EHL Hospitality Business School

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Beyond the Skyline: How Global Investors Are Winning in the UAE Hospitality Market

The Hidden Cost of Manual Accounting in Hospitality

Budgeting for 2026: A Strategic Approach for Hoteliers

Sustainability and Investing: An Incompatible Combination?

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

The Hotel Brands of the World

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

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

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

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

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