Inflation vs vacation: Post-pandemic, how are rising costs and inflation impacting European hospitality?

Now we can see light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, how is the European hospitality sector trying to gain share of wallet, and how much do cost and inflation pressures, with recessionary clouds perhaps forming, affect strategy?

Terence Baker, Senior Reporter, Europe, for Hotel News Now, hosts this exclusive session alongside Thomas Emanuel, Director for STR, and Cristina Balekjian, Director of UK Hospitality Analytics for CoStar, who will present our latest data. This is followed by a panel discussion with industry leaders from Accor, Marriott International and Cycas Hospitality, detailing their own response to the current financial climate.

With over 30-years operating in CRE markets globally, CoStar Group has helped clients successfully navigate the most aggressive of market changes. STR and Hotel News Now joined CoStar Group in 2019, adding powerful hospitality data, analytics and news to our market-leading commercial property platform. A full agenda for this session can be found below.

Agenda:

• Opening remarks - Terence Baker, Senior Reporter, Europe, for Hotel News Now
• Introductory presentation - Thomas Emanuel, Director for STR, and Cristina Balekjian, Director of UK Hospitality Analytics for CoStar
• Panel discussion - Chaired by Terence Baker alongside industry experts including Camil Yazbeck, Senior Vice President, Head of Development, Europe, Accor; Asli Kutlucan, Chief Development Officer, Cycas Hospitality; and Gonzalo Aguilar, COO, Europe, Marriott International.