by Ross Woods | Aug 2, 2019 | Blog
Traditionally enjoying a symbiotic relationship, U.S. hotels and U.S. domestic airline carriers recorded all-time high revenues in 2018, following all-times highs in 2017. The lockstep nature of the relationship is reinforced by the high correlation between the growth...
by Ross Woods | Jul 25, 2019 | Blog
OYO, an Indian based hospitality company, with a string of franchised budget hotels in India, Malaysia, China and more recently Indonesia, has recently launched its entry into the competitive U.S. economy hotel market with a number of properties in Texas. It has also...
by Ross Woods | Jul 22, 2019 | Blog
The growth in Indonesia’s GDP is having a sustained and positive impact on the number of domestic visitor nights in classified and non classified hotels across the country. The number of domestic visitor nights in classified hotels has outnumbered the number of...
by Ross Woods | Jul 13, 2019 | Blog
Long considered a high barrier-to-entry1 hotel market, Manhattan has witnessed an explosion in new hotel room supply since 2008, growing at 4.6% CAGR, which compares with a room supply CAGR of 1.1% for the period 1987 to 2007. As of May 2019, another 56 hotels were in...
by Ross Woods | Jul 8, 2019 | Blog
Is your hotel portfolio well-positioned to create long-term shareholder value? If you answered “yes”, the portfolio is likely to be in the North-West Quadrant, the place to create increased shareholder value and the place to be seen! No, we’re not talking...
by Ross Woods | Jul 4, 2019 | Blog
“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past, and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.” George Santayana We like to think that those who respect the past will know what to expect in the future....