Investors are betting on the resilience of holiday parks as people seek out safe, secure staycations once lockdown restrictions lift. Blackstone has just acquired Bourne Leisure, which operates 56 sites in the UK under three brands; Haven, Butlin’s …
How Women Are Confronting The Gender Gap At Work
Just over a year ago, while steep challenges around gender equality remained, the number of women in the workplace was on the rise. Fast-forward 12 months and the picture has changed, with the pandemic and ensuing economic slump disproportionately a…
European Hotel Investment Market 2020: Surprisingly Optimistic Results
Newly released data from Cushman & Wakefield’s (C&W) Europe Hospitality MarketBeat 2020 reveals that contrary to what some may have expected, hotel transaction activity in Europe did not fall off the cliff during this crisis. While investment volume…
PROVision Partners Welcomes Mims Wright as Senior Advisor
New Smyrna Beach, Florida – PROVision Partners (“PROVision”), a leading global strategic growth, marketing, technology, and commercial services advisory firm to the travel and hospitality industry, announces the appointment of Mims Wright as a Senio…
Stress Test Before You Invest: Hotel Supply
For better or worse, the decimation of the hospitality industry as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has piqued the interest of investors. Private equity firms are raising new rounds of funding; SPACs are being created for the purpose of buying up d…
The most beautiful movie hotels: a way to escape during the pandemic
Check-in, passports, suitcases, reception, mini-bar, housekeeping, concierge, … For many hotel enthusiasts, these words almost give off a scent of exoticism as it’s been a long time since they last walked down the corridors of a hotel. Health rest…
Sustainable Hotel Management: Trends Hoteliers should know in 2021
Along with the pandemic and associated health and economic concerns, climate change is driving the world’s agenda. Business leaders everywhere are wrestling with how to respond to rising public and political pressure and align their systems and oper…
How Air Travel is Changing for Good – and for the Better
I recently made the decision to relocate back to my old stomping grounds of Connecticut and begin looking for a new career opportunity. I’d had a great run working at an ultra-luxury resort in Utah, where I was responsible for creating memorable exp…
How To Be A Human Swiss Army Knife
Pepperdine Graziago Professor John Mooney, Academic Director, Executive Doctorate of Business Administration and Associate Professor at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School in conversation with Thomas Magnuson (MBA ’89) at January 2021’s “Graziadio …
Spanish Travel Corridor – Ibiza Hotel Opens for First Full Season
As the island’s most stylish and chilled-out escape, there is no better place to spend the first post-lockdown vacation than Amàre Hotel Ibiza, which will open on the 30th of April for its first full season. This grown-up paradise is beautifully loc…