René-Ojas Woltering
EHL Launches European Hotel Transaction Price Index
René-Ojas Woltering | October 27, 2020
By Dr René-Ojas Woltering EHL’s Real Estate, Finance & Economics Institute presents the first edition of the European Hotel Transaction Price Index. This project aims to contribute to increased transparency in the European hotel industry by publishing the index on an annual basis. This first edition of the index is based on a total of 1247 hotel transactions across Europe between 2007 and 2019. In 2019, European hotel transactions prices increased by 7.7% vs. the prior year on the back of a record transaction volume of EUR 25.6 bn. For the first time, the index clearly surpassed its previous peak from 2007. While the 2019 version o...
How Hospitality and Retail Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Shutdown
René-Ojas Woltering | April 20, 2020
By René-Ojas Woltering Policy makers around the world have enforced an unprecedented shutdown of public life to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. As a consequence, entire sectors of the economy have seen their revenues collapse to zero. At the time of this publication, it appears that the shutdown will be a matter of months rather than just a few weeks. Yet, to date, no coherent political-economic strategy exists on how businesses may potentially survive a prolonged period without any revenues. Many hospitality and retail businesses are about to be sacrificed in the name of public health. A wave of insolvencies would cause irrev...
