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Category: Asset Management

Want to Save Money and Reduce Utility Costs? Here’s How.

As the hotel industry addresses its energy challenges, hotelAVE offers valuable insights into cost reduction and sustainable practices. Explore strategies like energy audits, personalized energy reduction plans, and performance monitoring to efficiently cut utility expenses. From fine-tuning guestroom temperatures to adopting efficient lighting and water systems, these approaches deliver both financial savings and environmental…
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The GOP Squeeze: How Asset Managers Maximize Hotel Profitability

As economic challenges, such as a potential recession, still-rising interest rates and wage increases loom, asset managers must identify areas of improvement to ensure sustained profitability. Focusing on operational performance is a key strategy to blunt their effects—and that’s where strong asset management comes into play. Read Full Article.. Download PDF file
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Michelle Russo of Hotel Asset Value Enhancement on How to Create a Travel Experience that Keeps People Coming Back for More

Enhanced technology — digital chat functions that address guest requests (instead of calling the operator and possibly being put on hold or getting the request wrong), increased adoption of mobile check in, and technology for other transactional purposes including making spa or restaurant reservations, ordering a drink by the pool, or to request a late..
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Five Tips To Profit As Pent-Up Demand Finally Emerges

When Omicron hit in full force, the rate of RevPAR recovery (as a percentage of 2019) in January and February stepped down from December’s level as consumers cancelled upcoming trips in the short-term and delayed future travel planning. As a result, nationwide occupancies dipped to 84% of 2019 levels during the first three weeks of January 2022, compared to above fair share in certain weeks in December, based on STR data.
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NYU 2021

Unable to attend the 2021 NYU Conference? Check out hotelAVE’s Key Conference Takeaways!   1) GREEN SHOOTS DRIVING CONFIDENCE STR forecasting nominal RevPAR recovery one year earlier – now 2023. Return of international travel, expected business and strong group pace bodes well for 2022. 2) UNCERTAINTY IN UNDERWRITING RECOVERY AND      INFLATION IMPACT While..
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People on the move at hotelAVE, Louvre hotels and HSMAI

Executive roles are being filled at hotelAVE and Louvre Hotels Group, while the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) has introduced its 2021 Americas board. Here’s a look: Stephen Stoycos joins hotelAVE as EVP of hospitality advisory & consulting: Hotel Asset Value Enhancement (hotelAVE) has appointed Stephen Stoycos as EVP of the firm’s hospitality..
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Hotel Management Companies Versus Hotel Asset Managers – What’s the Difference?

Hotel operators have many responsibilities that typically center around “day to day operations”, including hiring and training employees, ensuring high guest satisfaction, defining operating procedures, complying with brand standards, complying with local laws, pricing hotel rooms and other revenue sources, marketing the business, managing hotel bank accounts, and purchasing operating supplies, to name a few. ..
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Hotel Asset Management: A Guide

While general real estate asset management has existed for decades, hotel asset management evolved as a specialization beginning in the early 1990s, and for good reason.  To maximize hotel real estate value, owners need hotel asset managers qualified un-biased advocates with specific expertise in hotel operations, real estate and capital markets.    Interested in learning more..
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Market in Decline? – It’s time to focus on fundamentals and implement these metrics and operational strategies to maximize financial performance during declining economic periods

Industry prognosticators continue to revise the U.S. lodging outlook downward. In a declining economic period like the one currently underway, hoteliers—including owners, asset managers, and operators—need to proactively develop and implement strategies that preserve both top and bottom lines, and best allow them to successfully navigate lean times. Here, we present and discuss a number..
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