ALIS Conference
ALIS 2024 HVS Takeaways: Upbeat, Optimistic, and an Eye on Innovation
Rod Clough | January 26, 2024
By Rod Clough, Marcus Lee, John Berean, Eric Guerrero, Alice Sherman HVS was a proud sponsor of this year’s ALIS conference, and both our HVS Los Angeles leader Kirsten Smiley and our HVS San Francisco leader John Berean moderated educational and engaging panels at the event. Given that hotel performance metrics remain strong in most markets and difficulties persist in the office and multi-family sectors, both investors and lenders are finding hotels to be a particularly attractive asset class for 2024. Sentiment at the ALIS conference was upbeat, with participants and analysts buoyed by the improved lending economics as of Q4...
ALIS 2022 Takeaways – Our Industry Braces for a Big Year Ahead
Rod Clough | January 28, 2022
By Rod Clough Contributions by Kirsten Smiley, Eric Guerrero, Emil Iskandar, Daniel MacDonnell, John Berean, and Luigi Major. ALIS kicked off the 2022 hospitality industry convention season this week with heightened optimism for the sector. Several factors are converging this year that are setting the stage for what may be a year of record-breaking transaction activity. Fundamentals Fall into Place to Drive Value Increases The higher inflationary environment will continue to bode well for hotels, resulting in ADR pricing power leading to a lift in revenue on top of still lean operational models. Group tr...
ALIS Conference Perspectives
Rod Clough | August 2, 2021
By Rod Clough The ALIS Conference came and went this week, bringing Downtown L.A. hotels to life with optimism and hope that normal for the hotel industry is coming in the not-too-distant future. Here are some collective takeaways from our team that was in attendance. Market Performance The recovery remains a submarket story, with no overall trend driving the nation’s performance as a whole and little consistency in the recovery from market to market. Some markets are seeing strong recovery and are operating at or even above 2019 levels, while others are lagging. The recovery is not only underway in leisure-oriented m...
