michael grove
2024 Budget Planning: What Is Top of Mind for Hotel Owners & Operators?
HotStats | October 19, 2023
Budget season is upon us, and around the world hotel owners and operators are buried deep in data trying to come up with 2024 performance numbers. What unique challenges are hotels facing in the 2024 budgeting and planning process? HotStats reached out to global hospitality leaders to find out. By Michael Grove Chief Operating Officer HotStats 1. 2023 Hotel Performance: Growth Is Slowing In UAE, Saudi Arabia, India, Brazil, and the Caribbean, hotel profit margins in the first half of 2023 well surpassed 2019 levels, whereas they lagged in the UK, Germany, Spain, Poland, and Qatar. In China, hotels experienced tremendous growth rel...
HotStats’ COO Talks Profitability — Today and Tomorrow
HotStats | June 9, 2022
Hotel demand is high, rates are up, but what does it mean for the full spectrum of the profit-and-loss statement. The global hospitality industry is still facing down operational headwinds, and Michael Grove, COO of HotStats, outlined those challenges during a panel session at the International Hospitality Investment Forum (IHIF) titled, “Decoding the Data.” Grove’s presentation, which you can watch in full below, touched on myriad data points and honed in on four main issues impacting the hotel industry’s recovery from the depth of the pandemic: 1) the labour challenge 2) the return of corporate, group and conference travel 3) the...
