by Ross Woods | Jul 14, 2020 | Blog
The COVID – 19 pandemic is forcing hoteliers and hotel investors to seriously challenge assumptions that have been major cornerstones of the hotel industry. Assumptions about the business model, about what really constitutes fixed and variable expenses and what...
by Ross Woods | Jul 8, 2020 | Blog
The current COVID -19 pandemic is likely to have a lasting impact on the size, number, and market position of luxury and upscale hotel brands in the U.S. The impact of the pandemic will lead to a consolidation of brands resulting in fewer brands after their rapid...
by Ross Woods | Jul 6, 2020 | 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...
by Ross Woods | Jun 29, 2020 | Blog
After a decade of solid growth in demand for Indonesia’s burgeoning star-rated hotel sector, 2019 witnessed a precipitous decline in room night demand across all star-rated categories, except for 1-star hotels. Led by 5 and 2-star hotels with declines of 32%...
by Ross Woods | Jun 28, 2020 | Blog
The current COVID -19 pandemic is likely to have a lasting impact on the size, number, and market position of Australia’s luxury and upscale hotel brands over the next three years. The impact of the pandemic will lead to a consolidation of brands resulting in fewer...