Tanya Venegas
2024 Budgeting: How To Improve Hotel Performance in Uncertain Times
HotStats | November 9, 2023
By Tanya Venegas In our previous article, we shared insights and advice from global hospitality experts on how to make the 2024 hotel budget process as smooth and painless as possible. Here, we share five ways to improve budget accuracy and performance in uncertain times. 1. Benchmark Against Competitors In the last article, we discussed the importance of strategic planning, aligning stakeholders, and harnessing relevant data. Another key element of the budgeting process is to benchmark performance against competitors. “Benchmarking is critical,” Pete Sams, chief operating officer of Davidson Hospitality Group, told us. “We l...
HFTP Announces 2021 Paragon Award Recipients – Tanya Venegas and Sanjay Nadkarni
HFTP | May 27, 2021
Both recipients have been essential to the association’s research and academic endeavors. Tanya Venegas, MBA, MHM, CHIA and Sanjay Nadkarni, Ph.D. have been selected as the 2021 Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®) Paragon Award recipients for their excellent direction of the HFTP Research Centers and their impactful tutelage over hospitality students and HFTP student members. Venegas is Global Head of Customer Success for HotStats, Inc., but had previously served as director/executive director of the HFTP Americas Research Center at the University of Houston from 2002 – 2018. Nadkarni is Director of Innova...
Information & Telecommunication Spending Trends in the US
Tanya Venegas | July 15, 2019
By Tanya Venegas In mid-June, HFTP hosted the 47th annual Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference, better known as HITEC. The event occurred in Minneapolis, Minnesota and welcomed more than 6,000 attendees, making it one of the largest hospitality technology conferences in the world. What brought these people together? A common interest in hospitality technology. Sessions were highly attended and focused on topics including data security, artificial intelligence, biometrics, digital transformation and guest technology. The all-important question attendees walked away asking themselves: What technologies should we inve...
