The energy is building as we prepare for Meet the Money’s return in May! Our registrants can look forward to an exciting conference structured around networking, dealmaking, and gathering insight from the industry’s best minds.
Over the past few decades, we have seen constant advancements in automation technology, particularly when it comes to the hospitality procurement process. Procedures like sourcing, tendering, auctioning, and ordering products have all been adopted into automated systems. And while these advancements have created unmatched levels of consistency, efficiency, and convenience, there’s one area in particular that often gets left out of this automation: payments.
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The fall of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, the largest U.S. banking collapse since the Great Recession, will ultimately lead to a shift in funding sources, difficulty obtaining hotel construction loans and a slowdown in recovery of the already challenging lending environment, say hotel analysts and owners.
The Global Hospitality Group of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM) is pleased to announce the completion of $172 million in C-PACE (Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy) financing transactions for the year 2022. This total includes over $97 million in hotels and condos, more than $58 million in multifamily, and $16 million in senior living facilities.
A recent Gartner report claims that by 2025, quite 50% of organizations around the world will have a cloud-based procure-to-pay suite. Tools like BirchStreet Pay are gaining traction as hotels learn more about the advantages and cost opportunities of using saving procurement solutions.
A majority of Lodging Industry Investment Council members said they expect full-year lodging real estate transactions in 2023 to exceed the volume in 2022.
The rapid pace of interest rate increases and uncertainty over an economic slowdown have U.S. hotel owners and investors wondering what that means for deals this year.
At this year’s Americas Lodging Investment Summit, the opening question in almost every conversation I participated in was “what are you seeing?”
Despite a slowdown in sales in the second half of 2022 due to dislocation in the debt markets, hotel investors have kicked off 2023 with record sales for quality assets in highly desirable and growing markets.
The Hunter Hotel Investment Conference is pleased to announce Sheila Johnson, Founder and CEO of Salamander Hotels & Resorts, will take the main stage as the Keynote Speaker at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis on Wednesday afternoon, March 22, 2023.
It's no secret that e-commerce has experienced a rapid surge over recent years, reaching a nearly 50% user penetration rate for digital commerce in 2020, and more skyrocketing growth throughout and following the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA), the largest hotel owners association in the world with nearly 20,000 members, announced today that it has already secured a record level of booth sales for the Trade Show at AAHOACON23, April 11-14, 2023, making it the largest in AAHOA history.
The National Hispanic Corporate Council (NHCC), the premier resource for corporate America on Hispanic strategy development, announces Choice Hotels International, Inc. as its newest corporate member.
The Hunter Hotel Investment Conference, Noble Investment Group, and Cecil B. Day School of Hospitality Administration, Georgia State University are pleased to announce Geoff Ballotti, President and CEO of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, will join Mit Shah, CEO of Noble, for the 9th Annual Bharat Shah Leadership Speaker Series.
Another ALIS is in the books, and a busy one at that, with nearly 3,000 in attendance. If you weren’t one of those lucky thousands, here are our takeaways.
Challenges and opportunities abound in 2023 for publicly traded hotel companies, and Wall Street analysts who cover those companies say the good and bad won't be felt evenly across different types of companies or throughout the calendar year.
While some factors are easing the constraints on hotel construction, new hotel projects are facing challenges earlier in the development process.
In an article we published in February 2021, before the COVID-19 vaccines were broadly rolled out, we suggested to owners of hotels in Florida, and waterfront hotels in the Sunshine State in particular, that their assets would soon be in high demand.
U.S. Gross Domestic Product and hotel demand are strongly correlated. Based on data from 1990 through 2019, changes in demand for hotel rooms year over year have mirrored changes in the GDP, a consistent trend over the past 30 years.