After 14-years at the helm of HotStats, Pablo Alonso is relinquishing his CEO role to start a new chapter as a non-executive board member and Senior Consultant.
It is no secret that The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is changing. Over just the past five years the change has been staggering, both socially, and politically as well as a dramatic shift in its economic vision.
Do you remember back in school when you learned about homographs? You remember, of course, those are words that have the same spelling as another word but have a different sound and meaning. What does this have to do with operational benchmarking? Is spelling important? Well, yes and no, spelling is always important, but when implementing operational benchmarking as part of the finance culture of the organization, it is important to understand what is significant in terms of your operation.
In the hospitality sector, the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry 11th edition (USALI) serves as a standardized framework, enabling hotels to utilize operational benchmarking effectively to assess and enhance their financial performance. When hotels adapt USALI reporting, leveraging its structured approach, they can compare their financial performance against industry standards and competitors.
Earlier this week I was talking to a regional commercial head of Asia for one of the world's largest hotel chains and the view forward into 2024 is one of concern, to say the least. At the moment, the hotel benchmarking data look goods; for many destinations within this region, 2023 was a record year both in terms of topline revenue as well as Gross Operating Profit (GOP). Expectations are significant for the coming year; thus, the higher than usual level of apprehension.
In our previous article, we shared insights and advice from global hospitality experts on how to make the 2024 hotel budget process as smooth and painless as possible. Here, we share five ways to improve budget accuracy and performance in uncertain times.
For hotel owners and operators alike, the annual budget is often a gruelling and time-consuming process. This year, with persistent inflation, added pressures on cost control, and uncertainty about the economy, the process is as fraught as ever.
For hotels, the annual budget process is like a high-stakes poker game in which the owners keep their cards close to their chest and the operators try to guess what cards they’re holding and if they’re bluffing. By the time everyone shows their hands and the year kicks in, the game has often changed significantly, and all bets are off.
Budget season is upon us, and around the world hotel owners and operators are buried deep in data trying to come up with 2024 performance numbers.What unique challenges are hotels facing in the 2024 budgeting and planning process? HotStats reached out to global hospitality leaders to find out.
Recent data on the performance metrics of the Canadian hospitality market reveals a compelling story of resilience and recovery tinged with a note of warning on bottom-line conversion.