One of my last restaurant meals before the shutdowns started last year was at Swan Oyster Depot in San Francisco. I waited on the street by a fishy-smelling puddle until I was waved toward a seat at the well-worn counter.
INTELITY®, the provider of hospitality's broadest guest experience and staff management platform, has signed a deal with Hutton Brickyards to implement the full INTELITY platform at the new retreat located in Kingston, New York. Opening in May 2021, Hutton Brickyards will provide mobile, in-room, and staff capabilities that optimize operations and eliminate friction within the guest experience in order to foster genuine relaxation and deep connections to nature.
Park Hyatt New York is pleased to welcome guests once again to experience Midtown Manhattan's exceptional five-star hotel on Billionaires' Row. The Award-winning hotel, which has secured several accolades and gained accreditation for its cleaning and safety protocols, welcome guests to rediscover the luster of Midtown Manhattan once again.
Forbes Five-Star Mandarin Oriental, New York has announced that as of 1 April 2021 the hotel will once again be welcoming guests.
Embracing the continually evolving landscape of 2021, Capstone Equities, a leading New York-based private equity firm, today announced that it will take the bold step to self-manage their portfolio of hotels with the launch of Rebel Hospitality.
Sonesta International Hotels Corporation (Sonesta) has appointed Garine Ferejian-Mayo as the company's new Chief Commercial Officer. In this newly created position, Ms. Ferejian-Mayo will leverage more than 25 years of industry experience to drive the execution of Sonesta's commercial operations while leading the company's Sales, Revenue, Distribution, Call Center, and Field-Marketing teams. Ms. Ferejian-Mayo will work closely with Sonesta President and Chief Executive Officer, Carlos Flores, and Chief Operating Officer, Vera Manoukian to craft the company's commercial strategy aimed at positioning Sonesta as an industry leader known for exceptional financial results and outstanding guest satisfaction.
Mews, the leading cloud-based property management system (PMS), has been chosen by the Wythe Hotel, an independent boutique hotel in New York, as the PMS to transform their hotel operations. With 70 rooms and a discerning customer base, the Wythe Hotel requires a technology partner like Mews to align with their vision of innovation so that they can deliver experiences to guests like no other.
Caspi Development today announced the topping out of 456 Greenwich Street in Tribeca, the future home of the elegant five-star Hotel Barrière Le Fouquet's New York. Managed under the prestigious Groupe Barrière brand, the property will encompass 96 beautifully appointed guest rooms and suites.
Declines in occupancy and revenue per available room ("RevPAR") continued to accelerate across Manhattan during the fourth quarter, as the COVID-19 pandemic curbed both holiday tourism and commercial traveler demand to the city. With tens of thousands of rooms temporarily closed, business and international travel all but suspended, and leisure demand drivers severely restricted, fourth quarter revenue per available room ("RevPAR") experienced a year-over-year decline of 85.2%.
Harsha L'Acqua spent most of her early career working in marketing and as front of house at hotels in cities including Bangkok, London, Singapore, and New York. But on a trip with friends to Cambodia, she stumbled on a hotel school in Siem Reap that trained local women for housekeeping positions, which sparked an idea. Shortly after, she quit her day job, enrolled at Cornell, and started hashing out plans for Saira Hospitality, a pop-up training center to connect locals with skills and employment at soon-to-open resorts, for everything from traditional food and beverage roles to working in a hotel's stable. Hotel San Cristobal in Todos Santos, Mexico, Four Seasons Los Cabos at Costa Palmas, and Habitas Namibia have all benefited from Saira's 2- to 10-week training programs. Now, the company is looking at mixing in permanent sites, like the one announced at The Monastery hotel in West Virginia earlier this year.
During a time when innovation across the hospitality, food and beverage, event, and travel and tourism sectors is more prevalent and critical than ever before, the NYU School of Professional Studies Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality has launched a new Hospitality Innovation Hub (HI Hub), which will foster entrepreneurship and creative solutions for the industries it serves. It has been funded through a generous gift of $1,000,000, made by Jeffery Yau to support the Tisch Center in this new endeavor. Yau is the CEO of Puyi Optical and Europe Watch Company, based in Hong Kong. His commitment to the Tisch Center is central to supporting the vision of Associate Dean Nicolas Graf and the future of the hospitality industry.
"It'll wash" with these words starts the revenue guru his volunteer journey as a permanent co-host on WHTT's trademark broadcast Revenue HACKS.
In the recent U.S. Construction Pipeline Trend Report released by Lodging Econometrics (LE), at the close the fourth quarter of 2020 and after more than 6 quarters since leading all U.S. markets in the number of pipeline projects, New York City has regained top billing again with 150 projects/25,640 rooms. Other U.S. markets that follow are Los Angeles with 148 projects/24,808 rooms; Dallas with 147 projects/17,756 rooms; Atlanta with 140 projects/19,863 rooms, recording a record-high number of rooms; and Orlando with 112 projects/19,764 rooms, a record-high pipeline project count for the market.
Atelier Ace has revealed late Spring 2021 as the opening date for Ace Hotel Brooklyn. Designed from the ground up in partnership with Stonehill Taylor, who completed the architecture of the building and Roman and Williams, who shaped both the facade of the building as the interiors, the 287-room hotel will add a singularly new chapter to Ace's romance with New York City. Located in Boerum Hill on the cusp of Downtown Brooklyn, the property stands above the ever-evolving intersection of a geographical Venn diagram of energies, from the tree-lined streets and brownstones of Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens to the art and culture clusters of Fort Greene, and all the way down to the restless East River.
John Fitzpatrick has weathered multiple crises in his more than three-decade career in the hotel industry. He opened his first hotel in New York City during the Gulf War and owned three by the time 9/11 happened.
Pamela Malkani is pleased to announce the formation of ideation + h as of January 1, 2021. The new boutique hospitality asset management and consulting firm will oversee a portfolio of hotels and fractional clubs, including its current collection of over 1,500 keys and over $350 million in annual revenues.
Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading global provider of next-generation hospitality software solutions and services, today announced that Rochester Institute of Technology has implemented the Agilysys InfoGenesis ecosystem of modern cloud-native SaaS POS solutions for its campus dining and sports facilities to streamline operations while promoting social distancing through contactless self-service options for students, faculty and guests.
Luxury hotels and resorts group Aman is set to open a new hotel in New York in spring 2021, located in Manhattan's historic Crown Building.
One feature of post-COVID New York City just may be large, hulking, dark buildings, a legacy of the hotels that have or will have closed permanently due to an extreme revenue shortage brought about by lockdowns that deprived them of their clientele.