April 2022 Even if you don’t speak French, you know the phrase, “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” As we have been celebrating our school’s 40th anniversary over this academic year, the notion of change has come up quite a bit in how we think about and teach Hospitality. Back when our school […]
April 2022 By: Kaushik Vardharajan, Director, Real Estate Program, Boston University School of Hospitality Administration We are now entering the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic that has resulted in more than 470 million cases and 6.1 million deaths around the world, per the World Health Organization. While the hospitality industry’s worst fears at the […]
By Charlotte Kang, Managing Director, Valuation & Advisory Services Group, Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels are increasingly becoming a mainstream asset class stemming from the hospitality industry’s robust growth, evidenced by the strong hotel transaction volume involving a wide array of global investors. The hospitality industry came to a halt in 2020, shocking the hotel world into […]
By Rod Clough, President, Americas, HVS As much as we want the pandemic to be in the rearview mirror, the hotel industry is still facing lingering challenges. Group cancellations and reduced group room block pick-ups during the first weeks of 2022 are taking steam out of the recovery and extending the time to a full […]
By Ingo Schweder, Founder & CEO at GOCO Hospitality, Managing Director at Horwath HTL Health & Wellness Introduction People are becoming increasingly aware of how lifestyle and external environmental factors impact their wellbeing and are seeking health-and-wellness enhancing solutions in their daily lives. A majority of physical spaces are unable to provide such solutions, often limiting […]