hotel owners
Hotel Finance: Sign Up Today for Meet the Money 2024!
Jim Butler | January 16, 2024
Early Bird registration is now available for Meet the Money® 2024. Click here to register with a $200 discount off the regular rate of $1,495. Meet the Money® 2024 will be May 6-8, 2024 at the Marriott Los Angeles Airport hotel. More information is available on www.MeetTheMoney.com. Register now to secure your spot for the hospitality industry conference focused on 2024 hotel finance, investment, and deal-making. About Meet the Money® For 30 years, Meet the Money® has created an energetic environment to forge relationships, negotiate deals, and gain an in-depth understanding of hotel investment and finance. Our national ...
Hospitality Finance Breakfast Briefing: Bringing Down the Cost of Capital and Filling Your Capital Stack
Jim Butler | July 26, 2023
By Jim Butler and the Global Hospitality Group® Earlier this week, the Global Hospitality Group® co-hosted a breakfast briefing in Los Angeles with CREDE, a leading real estate development and project management firm. The program focused on how hotel owners and developers can reduce their cost of capital and costs of construction while filling in gaps in their capital stack through a few critical construction management techniques and exploitation of both traditional and alternative financing options. Luigi Major, Managing Director of HVS, opened the program with an economic overview, providing an inspiring update on the state of the i...
AHLA Statement in Support of the Main Street Tax Certainty Act
AHLA | May 22, 2023
WASHINGTON (May 22, 2023) – American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) President & CEO Chip Rogers is speaking out today in support of the Main Street Tax Certainty Act, which was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Steve Daines. “The Main Street Tax Certainty Act is a bipartisan effort to keep the Small Business Deduction from expiring in 2025. It would ensure permanent tax relief for millions of employers – including thousands of hotels – organized as sole proprietorships, S corporations, and partnerships,” said AHLA President & CEO Chip Rogers. “This critical legislation would provide hotel small business owner...
Knowland Releases Sales Leader Training Guide to Help Hotel Owners and Asset Managers Protect and Grow Investments
Knowland | April 27, 2023
Top property and enterprise best practices enable sales teams to maximize performance using the Knowland Platform ARLINGTON, Va. — April 27, 2023 — Knowland, the world’s leading provider of data-as-a-service insights on meetings and events for hospitality, today announced a Sales Leader Training Guide designed to provide sales leaders with tips for helping property-level sellers get the best results from the Knowland platform and in turn, drive new business. Potential customers gain an in-depth look at the nuances of the platform. Download the guide here. Achieving sustained profitability requires sales strategies that start ...
Hilton Recognizes 53 Winners With Americas Development Awards
Hilton | September 20, 2022
Today, Hilton revealed its 2021 Americas Development Awards which recognize the achievements of owners, development partners, and hotel teams in the Americas across several categories. These annual awards celebrate the resiliency and commitment of our owners and team members who spread the light and warmth of hospitality, even during incredibly challenging times. “We are incredibly proud to recognize the owners and developers who are recipients of the 2021 Americas Development Award winners,” said Danny Hughes, executive vice president and president, Americas, Hilton. “Over the last year, we’ve seen blockbuster seasons of travel...
Avison Young Announces Weekly Open Forum Results
Avison Young | October 27, 2020
ATLANTA – October 27, 2020 – Two weeks ago, Avison Young Hospitality Group launched a weekly virtual forum for every Monday at 2pm eastern time running through the end of the year. The main focus of the 45-minute virtual forum is to answer live questions from the participants who are private and public hotel investors, lenders, owners and operators. The hotel investment world has changed since COVID and we want to be a resource to the marketplace. Keith Thompson said, “This forum is not a sales pitch for our company. It is simply a resource. With hundreds already registered for each Monday, the questions and answers seem to be driven...
How Involved Are Hotel Owners in Property-Level Decisions?
Demian Hodari, Ph.D | November 6, 2018
By Demian Hodari, Michael J. Turner, Michael C. Sturman Hotel owners increasingly contract hotel management companies to operate their properties. While extensive research has examined management agreements to determine the balance of power between owners and management companies, little research has investigated the actual role that hotel owners play in property-level decision making. This is perplexing because management companies generally insist that hotel management agreements (HMAs) specifically stipulate that the owner should not seek to influence the hotel's general manager (GM). In other words, in exchange for their services, m...
What Does a Rising Interest Rate Environment Mean for Hotel Owners?
Stephen Gaylor | April 6, 2017
By Stephen Gaylor On Wednesday, March 15, 2017, the headline from the Economy section of the New York Times boldly announced that the "Fed Raises Interest Rates for Third Time Since Financial Crisis." This is the second time in three months that the Federal Reserve has raised rates, yet only the third time in the past decade. For those who do not deal with interest rates on a daily basis, it is important to note that the rate hikes which have recently taken place do not have a direct impact on the type of debt utilized to finance real estate, however, they do provide us with a glimpse of the future. Rates are going up, and they are like...