
GLOBAL REPORT
—Hotels typically generate revenues from a limited pool of sources: guestrooms, food and beverage, banquets and catering and gift shops are the most common. Today, some hotel operators have uncovered new avenues of revenue generation, including fitness club memberships, short-term guestroom and meeting room rentals and parking space rentals to non-guests.
Some resorts with golf courses and tennis courts sell memberships to local residents to increase usage of the facilities, but now a few transient hotels with large and well-equipped fitness facilities are able to market their services to local residents.
Full article recommended by Joseph Kennedy Owner/President at Crystal Investment Property, LLC