With just weeks left in the 2016 calendar year, AETHOS Consulting Group in London, New York, Los Angeles and Melbourne have gathered their thoughts and will boldly share their predictions, concerns and issues for the coming year. And while AETHOS executives focus on issues relative to their respective parts of the globe, issues naturally transcend and impact our industry worldwide.
With just weeks left in the 2016 calendar year, AETHOS Consulting Group in New York, Los Angeles, London and Melbourne have gathered their thoughts and will boldly share their predictions, concerns and issues for the coming year. And while AETHOS executives focus on issues relative to their respective parts of the globe, various issues naturally transcend and impact our industry worldwide.
Las Vegas lives on reputation. A city of enticement, its draws include world-renowned institutions and venues for gambling, dining, entertainment, conventions and meetings, and high-end shopping. Gaming, both in terms of visitors who come to gamble and gaming wins per visitor, is evidently in decline in the market. Hence, there is a continuing need for casino owners and hoteliers in Las Vegas to track and focus on other ways in which visitors create revenue. The generation of more non-gaming revenue should make the market better equipped to withstand future economic downturns.
Tourism in Venice has been a growing problem; the city is overrun by tourists. Many of the local inhabitants have left the center, and are still leaving in droves. Within one generation the population has shrunk by almost a third. Rising costs are driving more and more people out of the city. This month the number of inhabitants has fallen to under 55,000. In 1951 the population was 175,000. 26 years ago it was still 78,000. Another problem is that almost half of the population is over 60 years old. On the other there are only about 9000 people under 18 years old.
Tourism in France suffered greatly last year; especially Paris and its suburbs. The hotel industry in Ile-de- France reported that the number of overnight stays in the second quarter of 2016 fell by 10.6% compared to the previous year. The decline in the number of foreign customers was particularly noticeable: 13.9% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2016. Japanese tourists were the biggest group that left Paris, their number dropped by 46.2% compared to the previous year. Fortunately, business tourism, the professional counterpart to leisure tourism, is performing better, and despite a lackluster year, the Ile-de-France maintains its dominant position in Europe.
The vote of British electors in favor of the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union (EU) in June 2016, commonly known as “Brexit,” will have consequences for the country's tourism industry, as well as for Europe. It seems domestic tourism will benefit quite substantially. It was one of the most discussed topics at the World Travel Market (WTM) 2016. It is the subject of an entire chapter in the 7th edition of the “Industry Report” presented by the fair and is at the heart of several conferences.
Named after the owner of the area's first general store and later developed as a center for lumber shipments, Branson, Missouri, had an inauspicious start as a tourism destination. Over the course of the past century, however, Branson has built a reputation as a "family friendly" counterpart to Las Vegas, featuring a high density of live music and theater performance venues along a stretch of State Highway 76 nicknamed "The Strip."
The Q3 2016 Hotel Bulletin analyses the first full quarter of data following the EU referendum in June. Very early trends suggest that a divide could be emerging between leisure and corporate focused markets. Cities with larger tourist industries recorded strong RevPAR growth as international visitors flocked to benefit from a weaker Pound, whereas cities outside this group continued recent trends of plateauing or declining RevPAR. This quarter's Focus examines he independently branded hotel market, where a number of groups have created unique customer propositions and enjoyed significant success.
Located in the Girwa valley, amidst the desert of Rajasthan, stands the city of Udaipur. The once capital of the mighty Mewar Kingdom, Udaipur is now one of the most sought after leisure destinations India has to offer. Aptly known as the "City of Lakes", the scenic Lake Pichola and Fateh Sagar Lake are centres of most of the leisure activity in the city. The atmosphere of royalty can not only be sensed in the palaces and gardens of Udaipur, but by way of the luxury hospitality experience as well. This article focuses on the history and progress of the Udaipur hotel market in addition to a brief outlook of its future potential.
Twenty years is a long time to understand a hotel market, which is about the same time when the first HVS Asian office was set up in New Delhi. Yes, what is happening in the leisure space for hotel accommodation in India today is indeed a revelation that needs to be recognized.
In December 2008, we put together an article titled "The Changing Face of the Greek Hospitality Market" outlining the situation in the Greek hotel market at that time. Nearly eight years later, and after a volatile period inside and outside the country, we think it is appropriate to update our findings since we all live in "a completely different world" which has been profoundly transformed in terms of the sense of general prosperity prevailing in the Western economies since the mid-2000s. Thus, we wonder: "Has the Greek Hospitality Market Even Changed?"
Baton Rouge, aka the "Red Stick," was so named by 17th century French explorers who came upon a native boundary marker at the top of a bluff, in the form of pole painted red. Now the capital city of the state of Louisiana, Baton Rouge is also the seat of East Baton Rouge Parish and the political hub of Louisiana.
Patras is the regional capital of Western Greece and the country's third largest city. It is located 215 kilometers west of Athens, within Achaia Prefecture, while the port of the city serves as the main gateway to Greece from Western Europe. Τhe urban complex of the city is the third most populous in Greece after the ones of Athens and Thessaloniki and it constitutes one of the largest financial, commercial, and cultural center of the Peloponnese Peninsula and Western Greece. The city hosts the University of Patras which is one of the country's most prominent public universities and the University Regional General Hospital which is affiliated with the University of Patras and has earned a reputation as a well-respected medical center.
The 2016 HVS Manhattan Lodging Overview examines the effects of up and down economic cycles on Manhattan hotels, reviewing trends in hotel performance, supply, and demand over the past 25 years. The report also provides the most current information available on today's market, as well as forecasts for supply growth and hotel performance.
Welcome to the third edition of the African Hotel Valuation Index (HVI). We are thrilled that the number of markets included in the study continues to grow. In the first edition we had 14 cities, that grew to 18 last year and this year it has increased again to 21 cities in 16 different countries. A 50% increase in markets in such a short space of time is indicative of the ever increasing interest in the African hotel market. Moreover, and equally importantly it also illustrates an improved transparency and increase in data across the continent.
The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, which is also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia bordered by Bangladesh, India, China, Laos, and Thailand. As the second-largest country in Southeast Asia, Myanmar has a total land area of 676,578 square kilometers and 1,920 kilometers of coastline, which borders the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal. Governed as a unitary parliamentary republic, there are 15 administrative states/regions in the country. The capital city was moved to Naypyidaw in 2005, from the previous capital and the largest commercial city, Yangon.
Zürich remains an important finacial centre; however, the global finanical crisis took its toll and the corporate market, especially, has become much more price-sensitive, affecting hotel rates and meeting and events revenue. Unpegging the Swiss franc from the euro in January 2015 made the country instantly more expensive, which not only had repercussions on the tourism industry but also the competitiveness of its export economy.
This August 2016 once again offers bleak results marked by a more generalized down trend. Unlike the previous months, no category was spared and the trend may be observed in the different regions as well as in Paris and the Ile de France. The impact of the attacks last July 14 in Nice was unfortunately quick to take effect: the strong drops in Paris, the Île de France and PACA regions all pulled the national result down into the red, even if certain regions, particularly shorelines, showed slight growth.
The season's first rainfall. A child's first words. Your very first pay check. Beginnings are a cherished feeling! Why should it be any different in the world of hotels?
Right now, we are all still talking about the rapid growth of China and to a lesser extend India, Russia and Brazil under the collective banner of BRIC. Their evolution into capitalistic territories has presented countless lucrative prospects for hospitality organizations both big and small. But there should be a fifth name in this acronym which is often overshadowed despite what's happening on the ground and despite it being the fourth most populous country in the world.