Should Our Hotel Lease Out Space To Restaurant Operator Or Handle It Ourselves?
Q: Our hotel is looking to renovate in the near future, and we know that we need to improve our foodservice offerings but we’re not sure whether...
Standing Proud: Highlighting the Top 50 Hotel Operators
While 2011 wasn’t the worst of times, it wasn’t the best of times, either. It was a kind of non-descript year — a clever student who performed...
Keeping Guests Safe By Investing In Hotel Security
Talk to any experienced risk consultant serving the global hotel industry, and undoubtedly they’ll tell you stories that would make any manager nervous. “In...
The Low-down on Low Room-Rates
Hoteliers make tactical room-rate adjustments on a daily basis. They’re driven by the need for higher occupancy, increased cash-flow, and, in some cases, they want to prove...
Rising Up Hospitality’s Corporate Ladder
“Sometimes,” sighs Trevor Bracher, director of Service Culture for Stamford, Conn.-based Starwood Hotels and Resorts, “running a hospitality business feels like you’re trying to change a tire...
Playing the Trump Card
The Trump International Hotel & Tower arrives in Toronto, inspiring champagne wishes and caviar dreams
When Talon International Development, owners of Toronto’s Trump International Hotel & Tower, purchased...
Conversion Excursion
When is a conversion the right choice for your property? Whether it’s an under-performing hotel being transformed into a condominium or retirement home, a...
A Necessary Evil: A Look at The OTAs
Are hoteliers being bitten by the OTA creature they helped create? Twenty-five years ago, Vittorio Di Re was part of a group that had...
Sounding Off: Investment Roundtable
Once again this year, Hotelier partnered with Starwood Hotels and Resorts to host the second-annual Investment Roundtable Last year was supposed to signal new...
Opening Doors to Success
Wyndham Hotel Group unites for its annual convention It may have been April Fool’s day, but it was serious business at Wyndham’s annual convention,...
