by Ross Woods | Aug 28, 2018 | Blog
We are pleased to provide this brief executive summary of our report titled “Short-Term Forecasts of Visitor Arrivals to Bali, 2018-2020.” The full report can be downloaded at the end of the post. Subscribers to the report will receive a complimentary...
by Ross Woods | Jul 8, 2018 | Blog
Surprise! The hotel markets of Anaheim-Santa Ana, Oahu Island and Tampa-St Petersburg were the best performing Top 25 hotel markets in the U.S. over the past thirty-years in terms of risk-adjusted RevPAR growth rates. In more recent times (2008-2017), the markets kept...
by Ross Woods | Jul 2, 2018 | Blog
By most accounts, the period 2015-2017 was one of the most successful periods on record for the U.S. Lodging Industry. With Real RevPAR eclipsing the previous peak of Real RevPAR in 2007, hotel investors enjoyed returns not seen since the 1990’s – returns in the...
by Ross Woods | Jun 25, 2018 | Blog, Southeast Asia
Background As I embark on my third business trip to Southeast Asia this year, I thought readers of our blog might be interested in my views on the emerging opportunities in this part of the world. Southeast Asia’s hotel industry has grown substantially over the...
by Ross Woods | Jun 21, 2018 | Blog
Identifying individual hotels that are underpriced (expected abnormal or excess risk-adjusted returns) in an economic sense is difficult to achieve. Unless a hotel investor has access to information that is not widely known or is contemplating the purchase of a hotel...