The newly launched Hotel Opening Processes website explores ways to better manage new hotel openings and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the process.

This website focuses on Gert Noordzy's research subjects related to new hotel opening processes.

These include root causes of hotel opening delays, project management of new hotel opening processes, as well as quantification of new hotel opening delays.

Future subjects will evolve around the impact of psychological typology and cultural dimensions on new hotel opening processes, and differences between state owned and private enterprises.

In Asia Pacific, the Chinese hotel industry has started the steepest new hotel development curve the world has ever experienced.

By 2039 China is expected to reach 9.1 million hotel rooms, four times its current number.

Development on this scale generates specific dynamics and challenges.

Interestingly, there seems to have been relatively little research done to understand the problems in managing hotel openings.

There is no conventional literature on hotel opening processes and very few independent articles and reviews on the subject are up to speed.

Hotel Opening Processes endeavours to conduct and publish research in the field and challenges the hotel industry to improve its new hotel opening track record. Initially, the primary focus will be on Greater China.

www.hotelopeningprocesses.com

About the Author

Gert Noordzy is an international hotelier and PhD student. Gert graduated from Hanze College Hotel Management School, Zwolle, The Netherlands, and holds an MBA from the University of Saint Joseph, Macau. He also is a Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM®`) of the Project Management Institute.  He has over 20 years professional experience in Greater China and South East Asia and has been involved in opening over 30 new hotels.

Gert first started researching hotel opening processes in 2008.