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Hospitality and Real Estate Explained: A Guide to Assets, Trends, and Investment Opportunities

Hospitality and Real Estate Explained: A Guide to Assets, Trends, and Investment Opportunities

On the global property market, hospitality real estate stands out as one of the most multifaceted segments. Hospitality assets sit at the intersection of real estate, service, and consumer culture, as in addition to being physical properties, they a...

Emma Näpänkangas

Emma Näpänkangas

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

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Hospitality and Real Estate Explained: A Guide to Assets, Trends, and Investment Opportunities

The Hidden Reason So Many Hotel Re-Openings Fail and How to Avoid It

The Hidden Reason So Many Hotel Re-Openings Fail and How to Avoid It

Ask any hotel owner what they’ve invested in, and many will tell you about designer furniture, unique interiors or the best branding agency they hired. What you won’t hear as often is how prepared their operations are which often makes all the diffe...

Katerina Shyrikova

Katerina Shyrikova

CEO of Key Hospitality

Key Hospitality

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The Hidden Reason So Many Hotel Re-Openings Fail and How to Avoid It

The Changing Influences on New Product Development in Hospitality

The Changing Influences on New Product Development in Hospitality

It seems like generations ago when “Globalization” with a capital “G”, was the watchword of corporate America, and of the largest companies and consumer brands in the world. Enabling technologies such as laptop computers, the internet, and the priva...

Andrew Cohan

Managing Director - Miami, Majestic Hospitality

Majestic Hospitality

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The Changing Influences on New Product Development in Hospitality

FHS World 2025: Celebrating 20 years of shaping global hospitality investment

FHS World 2025: Celebrating 20 years of shaping global hospitality investment

This year marks a milestone for us at The Bench as we celebrate 20 years in the UAE. Over the past two decades, Future Hospitality Summit (FHS) has evolved into the region’s most influential hospitality and tourism investment event, serving as a vit...

Jonathan Worsley

Jonathan Worsley

Chairman & CEO The Bench

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FHS World 2025: Celebrating 20 years of shaping global hospitality investment

Top 10 Risks Hotel Owners Face When Hiring a Hotel Management Company

Top 10 Risks Hotel Owners Face When Hiring a Hotel Management Company

Engaging a professional hotel management company can be a wise strategy to leverage operational expertise, benefit from brand recognition, and enhance market competitiveness. However, many owners are unaware of the significant risks these agreements...

Stephen Rushmore

Stephen Rushmore

Creator of the Hotel Valuation Methodology and Founder of HVS

Hotel Valuation Software

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Top 10 Risks Hotel Owners Face When Hiring a Hotel Management Company

Hotel Sales Decline Amid Economic Headwinds and Uncertainty in H1

The first half of 2025 witnessed a complex interplay of geopolitical shifts, natural disasters, and continuing global challenges that led to significant whiplash in the U.S. stock market and unusual swings in the bond market. The return of Donald J....

Daniel H. Lesser

Daniel H. Lesser

President & CEO of LW Hospitality Advisors LLC (LWHA)

LW Hospitality Advisors LLC (LWHA)

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LW Hospitality Advisors LLC (LWHA)

IHIF NYU as the Beacon of Hope for Hotels with Three Key Takeaways

IHIF NYU as the Beacon of Hope for Hotels with Three Key Takeaways

The pall in the air surrounding the near-term future of the hotel industry for the first half of 2025 has unsurprisingly centered around the disruption caused by one word: tariffs. It’s led to erratic travel behavior making forecasts less predictabl...

Adam Mogelonsky

Adam Mogelonsky

Partner at Hotel Mogel Consulting Ltd.

Hotel Mogel Consulting Limited

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IHIF NYU as the Beacon of Hope for Hotels with Three Key Takeaways

The GINTO Model: Boutique Hotel Substance Meets Scalable Growth

The GINTO Model: Boutique Hotel Substance Meets Scalable Growth

In a hospitality industry where boutique often means niche and scale often means compromise, GINTO Hotels is quietly proving that the two can coexist. On a recent trip to Paris, I had the opportunity to meet with Brice de Puymorin, Julien Kiefer, an...

Henri Roelings

Founder, Hospitality Net

Hospitality Net

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The GINTO Model: Boutique Hotel Substance Meets Scalable Growth

Owner’s Priority- The Most Important Provision in a Hotel Management Contract Fee Structure

Owner’s Priority- The Most Important Provision in a Hotel Management Contract Fee Structure

In hotel management agreements, the alignment of interests between hotel owners and operators is often more theoretical than practical. Operators typically earn a base management fee tied to a percentage of gross revenue and an incentive management ...

Stephen Rushmore

Stephen Rushmore

Creator of the Hotel Valuation Methodology and Founder of HVS

Hotel Valuation Software

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Management Companies

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Owner’s Priority- The Most Important Provision in a Hotel Management Contract Fee Structure

How Japan’s Vacant Akiya Houses Are Becoming Hospitality Businesses

How Japan’s Vacant Akiya Houses Are Becoming Hospitality Businesses

In Japan, “akiya” (空き家) refers to vacant homes that have been abandoned due to a growing phenomenon driven by demographic shifts and economic changes. Decades of low birth rates, rapid urbanization and an ageing population have gutted rural areas, w...

Masaki Mori

PhD, Associate Professor at EHL Hospitality Business School

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How Japan’s Vacant Akiya Houses Are Becoming Hospitality Businesses