The Northwest Hospitality Specialists.
With the new season coming up, it’s time to stock up on inventory and expand the workplace for new equipment. Is your business growing out of space for one location? Consider opening a second site to accommodate your growth in demand. Here are some suggestions to keep in mind when financing your business. One way [...]
If you didn’t attend the ALIS hotel conference in Los Angeles this year, you really missed something! Hotel investment conference attendance is a barometer for the health of the hotel industry. Companies send lots of delegates to these conferences when they are doing well, expect increased business, and are optimistic about the future. By that [...]
Financial Benefits of Management Integrity When Cornell’s Tony Simons analyzed the differences in performance in a group of 76 Holiday Inn properties, he found a remarkable connection. The managers with the highest financial performance also earned the highest integrity scores from their employees. Based on those results, Simons, an associate professor at the Cornell School [...]
In reading the recent article by Joel Ross in the HotelNewsNow bulletin (“Hotel industry sentiment falls back to reality”, February 2, 2012), I was struck by the similarity in Joel’s opinions to a conversation we had in our office just this morning. Joel was reviewing the sentiment which came out of the recent ALIS conference [...]
Have you recently done energy efficiency upgrades, or are you planning to do some this year? If so, are you aware of the EPAct, section 179D tax deduction and how it can possibly save you hundreds of thousands of dollars? As a hospitality resource, it is important to EcoGreenHotel to provide education on the ways [...]
TravelClick’s October 2011 North American Hospitality Review indicates the hotel industry is continuing to show strong growth in the business, leisure and group travel segments. The North American Hospitality Review is based on actual hotel bookings for the period October 1, 2011 through September 30, 2012. For the next twelve months, committed occupancy is up 4.8 percent year-over-year, average daily [...]
