Europe’s hotel demand trends, Hong Kong Heritage hotels are taking the lead, will ancillary revenues become primary revenues and design-build: what hotel owners should consider.

Europe’s hotel demand trends
Tuesday, 12th May 2020

As we look forward to the rest of May, we can expect an increase in hotel searches as countries enter different phases of easing restrictions. While we can prepare for increased volume, we expect the highest demand increase to be for domestic searches.

As countries around the world gradually ease their lockdowns and quarantine guidelines, we took a deeper look at the top five tourism markets in Europe: Germany, Italy, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Monitoring travel in these countries will give us greater insight into market recovery overall >>

Hong Kong hotels are taking the lead in recovery drive
11 May 2020 : A great effort by The Heritage Tourism Brands, a list of Hong Kongs’ most exclusive hotel brands that highlights the beauty of this incredible city and to promote it to the world, 'Hong Kong – Our Home' >>

News from around the APAC region and recovery activities
12 May 2020 : Hotel industry and travel news from around the Asia Pacific region: Myanmar launches COVID-19 economic relief plan, Vietnam prepares plans on recovery of tourism market and more >>

'Stay At Home with Vietnam' kit for housebound travellers
12 May 2020 : As Vietnam joins the rest of the world in social distancing to combat COVID-19, the country's tourism board is reaching out with a themed resource kit to keep travellers connected, creative and inspired >>

HIGHLIGHT ARTICLE

Will Ancillary Revenues become Primary Revenues in the COVID Era?
Tuesday, 12th May 2020

In the COVID-9 era, will Ancillary Revenues become Primary Revenue and should efficiencies be measured as revenue per square foot? Read on to know more >>

What Can You Do to Make Your Hotel Appeal to the Domestic Market?
With light finally being shed on when this will all begin to pass, it is truly time to start planning for your re-opening come July and with the slow and steady pace of change back to something that resembles normality, we’re still going to be faced with national and global restrictions, and aversion, when it comes to travel >>

Design-Build: What Hotel Owners Should Consider
When a hotel owner wants to start new property construction, there are a few methods to make this happen and traditional construction projects require multiple contracting companies to handle everything from start to finish, but that isn't always as easy as it might seem >>

Hotel Asset Management – In Good Times and Bad
The practice of asset management for hotels entering the third decade of the 21st Century has evolved into an intricate process of analyzing layers of data and operating results, and then acting based upon the conclusions >>

In case you've missed it: Global eNews of May 11, 2020
The first signs of optimism emerges, hotels in Sweden remained open, on-site communication will be key in a post-coronavirus world and repositioning of Hong Kong >>