28 February 2010
We have just launched The Hotel Yearbook blog - a place where readers can discuss the content of the Yearbook's articles in more depth, add insights of their own, debate, argue, rant and rave. Go have a look and join in one of the discussions!
29 January 2010
We are very pleased to announce that Gene Ference, Principal of Ference Leadership and Strategy in Weston, Connecticut, has joined our Advisory Board. Gene wrote an insightful piece for the 2010 edition.
11 December 2009 The Hotel Yearbook 2010 has been launched! It includes editorial contributions from 80 hotel industry executives, based in some 25 countries. Over half are CEOs, COOs or partners of their respective organizations.
8 December 2009 We are proud to announce a partnership between Cornell University School of Hotel Administration and The Hotel Yearbook, which will ensure distribution of the publication to the Hotel School's large and wide-ranging community of alumni, students and faculty.
20 November 2009 We are very pleased to announce that WATG is joining The Hotel Yearbook as a partner this year. Based in Honolulu, WATG is the world's leading design consultant for the hospitality industry.
11 November 2009 Matt Turner, Editor of London-based Sleeper magazine, joins our Advisory Board. Welcome to you, Matt!
5 November 2009 Jonathan Worsley, Chairman of Bench Events, has agreed to share with us a sampling of the investment projects proposed for evaluation at his company's recent investment forum in Russia.
3 November 2009 Another late addition to our list of contributors is James Stuart, Managing Partner of Hong Kong-based hospitality brand management specialists The Brand Company. James will examine how hotels will be using their brands in 2010 as a fundamental driver of organizational purpose.
2 November 2009 A latecomer to the roster of authors joins us today: Roman Peskin, co-founder and Managing Director of iQueLab Ltd. He'll be writing on trends in competitive intelligence in the hotel industry.
24 October 2009 Rohit Verma is the Director of the Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell Hotel School. His article will provide an overview of the key issues concerning the hotel industry in 2010, based on the findings of research conducted by the Center.
19 October 2009 Mark Birtha, VP Development of Las Vegas-based Marriott International Lodging Development, will be writing for us about trends in gaming in 2010.
7 October 2009 Edouard Ettedgui, CEO of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, will join this year's edition as a contributor to the article on changing perceptions of luxury in 2010.
We are also pleased to announce that the Hospitality Finance and Technology Professionals (HFTP) has renewed their partnership with The Hotel Yearbook. Under our agreement, HFTP members will receive free access to the 2010 edition when it is published in December.
2 October 2009 Craig Nash, CEO of Miami-based Interval International, has agreed to share his thoughts on the trends likely to affect the shared ownership segment in 2010.
Robert Schlup, Partner in the law firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP in Zurich, will lead-manage an article by the partners in firm on the key legal challenges expoected next yerar for hotel owners and operators - an importnat element of the investment environment.
1 October 2009 Howard Wolff, Senior Vice President of Honolulu-based WATG, will contribute an article on how he sees luxury developing in the coming year, especially from the point of view of a design firm.
30 September 2009 Liz Hall, Head of Hospitality & Leisure Research at PricewaterhouseCoopers in London, will contribute an article on the UK hotel buisiness outlook for 2010.
29 September 2009 Simon Cooper, President and COO of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co., has also contributed his take on the changing face of luxury in 2010.
28 September 2009
A team of experts from Horwath HTL offices around the world will be joining the roster of Hotel Yearbook 2010 authors. Sharing their outlook for next year will be the following contributors:
Philippe Doizelet on France and the UAE
Michael O’Hare on Russia
Victor Marti on Spain
Damien Little on China
Vijay Thacker on India
Matt Gebbie on luxury resort trends in Asia
Marius Gomola on the impact of the crisis on hotel financing in Central and Eastern Europe
25 September 2009 Ray Bickson, CEO of Mumbai-based Taj Hotels & Resorts, and Emmanuel Berger, CEO of the Victoria-Jungfrau Group headquartered in Interlaken, Switzerland, will also join our look at luxury in 2010.
21 September 2009 Ted Teng, President and CEO of Leading Hotels of the World, will also be among the Chief Executives of key luxury hotel groups sharing their thoughts with us on the near-term future of luxury.
15 September 2009 Arthur de Haast, Global CEO of Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, and Sue Lin Heng, Vice President of the company's Global Hotel Capital Group, are teaming up to report to us how 2010 looks from the standpoint of hotel transactions worldwide.
15 September 2009 Enrique de Marchena, President of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association, has agreed to share with Hotel Yearbook readers his thoughts on how 2010 is shaping up in this tourism-drive part of the world.
Hilary Murphy and Ines Ghorbal, both Professors at the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, will examine the effects of the financial crisis on 2010 IT spending in the hotel industry.
14 September 2009 Christopher Muller, Professor at the University of Central Florida and a leading expert on chain restaurant management, will contribute an article on trends in Food & Beverage - how the world will be eating in 2010.
Matt Adams, Senior Analyst at Cushman Wakefield in London, will share his analysis of the 2010 luxury pipeline.
12 September 2009 Geoffrey Kent, Founder and CEO of Abercrombie & Kent, will share his views on the changing face of luxury in 2010.
Sonu Shivdasani, Founder and CEO of the Six Senses Resort and Spa Group, has agreed to join in this discussion as well.
10 September 2009 Isadore Sharp, CEO of Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, has agreed to contribute to our article on the outlook for luxury next year: How will luxury itself be different in 2010 compared to today?
9 September 2009 For the 2010 edition of The Hotel Yearbook, we are putting together aspecial Southern Africa section, which is especially timely because South Africa will be hosting the 2010 World Cup in football (soccer) which is expected to be a huge draw, significantly affecting the hotel business.
Trevor Ward, Managing Director of W Hospitality Group, is spearheading the supplement and will be contributing his own take on the outlook for hotel group pipelines in the region. He’ll also take a specific look at Angola.
The other authors contributing to the Southern Africa supplement are:
Jackie Asheeke of the Federation of Namibian Tourism Associations, who will give us the viewpoint from an important destination market neighboring South Africa.
Phillip Barttram of Old Mutual, a regional bank, will discuss the current and future funding climate for hotel sin South Africa and other countries in the region.
Ewan Cameron, Managing Director of the regional hotel operator African Sun, will address issues facing the hotel business as a result of recent development.
Mmatatsi Marobe, representing the Tourism Business Council of South Africa, will write about current and continuing investment opportunities.
Kate Rivett-Carnac of the Development Bank of Southern Africa is looking at development issues in the region.
Irene Visser from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), will shed light for us on the experience of Mozambique: how will they respond to the opportunity next year?
Michele de Witt of Horwath’s Cape Town office, projects what is going to happen in South Africa’s hotel industry before, during and after the World Cup and takes a look at new brands entering the market.
8 September 2009 Byron Carlock, President & CEO of CNL Lifestyle Company LLC in Orlando, will share his expectations for the coming year concerning changing consumer behavior and how this will be linked to hotel companies' financing requirements.
6 September 2009 Alain Najar, Professor at the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, will examine how hotels are developing new ways to pamper families and especially children in 2010.
2 September 2009 Tom Storey, President of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, will contribute his take on how he expects luxury will change next year.
1 September 2009 Leo Brand, CEO of Swisscom Hospitality in Geneva, will write about technology challenges in the year ahead.
25 August 2009 Chip Conley, the Founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hotels, California’s largest collection of boutique hotels, has agreed to share with Hotel Yearbook 2010 readers his take on the outlook for the hotel business specifically in California next year.
22 August 2009 Sonu Shivdasani, Founder and CEO of the Six Senses Resort and Spa Group based in Bangkok, tells us about a particular effort at one of their resorts to become a fully carbon-free operation.
18 August 2009 Sir David Michels, member of the Board of Directors of Chicago-based Strategic Hotels & Resorts, and former CEO of Hilton International, will contribute an article on the 2010 recovery – how to operate in this kind of environment.
21 August 2009 Steve Joyce is the President and CEO of Choice Hotels. His article will look at the role value will play in consumer behavior in the coming year.
14 August 2009 Emmanuel Berger, CEO of the Victoria-Jungfrau Group based in Interlaken, Switzerland, has agreed to contribute his views on the Swiss hotel market outlook for 2010.
The Brazilian hotel market in 2010 will be subject of an article by José Ernesto Marino Neto, Founder & President of BSH International in São Paulo.
Mehmet Onkal, Managing Partner of BDO Hospitality Consulting in Istanbul, will take a look at the outlook for the Turkish market next year.
12 August 2009 Prof. Stowe Shoemaker, Associate Dean of Research at the University of Houston’s Conrad N. Hilton College, is an expert on customer loyalty and strategic pricing. He’ll be sharing his thoughts with Yearbook readers on how these marketing issues are likely to play out in the hotel business next year.
6 August 2009 Francisco Zinser, COO of NH Hoteles in Madrid, has agreed to explore the trends and expectations he has for the business hotel segment worldwide next year.
Paul Rinkens is the CEO of Qbichotels, a Maastricht-based designer of hotels in which the rooms are state-of-the-art living space – but tiny! He’ll be telling us about trends in the budget/economy segment of the hotel industry.
24 July 2009 Christina Norton, the Director of the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne’s Master in Hospitality Administration degree program, is joining the Yearbook’s contributors with an article about the future outlook for post-graduate hospitality education around the world.
22 July 2009 Gene Ference is the President of Ference Leadership and Strategy, a consulting firm in Weston, Connecticut. Gene’s feature article will look at changing leadership issues as we move into 2010 and a new part of the business cycle.
19 July 2009 Raj Chandnani, Director of Strategy for WATG in Irvine, California, will be writing on the changing hotel customer profile in the year 2010. We're also very pleased to announce that Raj has agreed to join our Advisory Board as well.
Dr. Ghassan Aidi, President of the International Hotel & Restaurant Association (IH&RA) in Geneva, has accepted our invitation to write on his outlook for the hotel industry as a whole next year.
17 July 2009 Prof. Macy Marvel from the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne is contributing an analysis of an unusual new market: Libya.
15 July 2009 The 2010 outlook for the German hotel market is the subject of the contribution by Matthias Lowin of Feuring Hotelconsulting GmbH in Mainz.
14 July 2009 Richard Davis is Co-Chair of the Hotel, Resort and Club practice of the law firm Greenberg Traurig in Los Angeles. He’ll be contributing an article looking at what is happening in the condo hotel market next year.
12 July 2009 The CEO of the HFTP (Hospitality Finance and Technology Professionals), Frank Wolfe, has agreed to reprise his article from last year’s edition on “Guestroom 20X”, a look at the developments he’s expecting in the area of in-room technology.
Mark Skinner, Partner in the Atlanta-based Highland Group, will be joining our roster of 2010 authors to share his views on the extended-stay segment next year.
10 July 2009 Frances Kiradjian, Founder and CEO of the Boutique and Lifestyle Lodging Association, has agreed to write about the outlook for the boutique hotel segment next year. Joining her with a companion article will be Yasmine Mahmoudieh, Berlin-based architect who’ll be looking at next year’s lifestyle developments from a hotel designer’s perspective.
8 July 2009 Lyndall De Marco, a world-class authority on sustainability in the hotel and tourism industries, has agreed to conduct an exclusive interview for The Hotel Yearbook 2010 with Minaz Abji, who is responsible for asset management, feasibility, design and construction at Host Hotels & Resorts.
Looking at the near-term developments in the burgeoning segment of medical tourism will be Renée-Marie Stephano, the COO of the Medical Tourism Association, based in West Palm Beach.
7 July 2009 In his article for The Hotel Yearbook, Rohit Talwar, CEO of Fast Future, in London, will describe his fascinating take on the near-term outlook for the economy, and the world.
6 July 2009 Two experts on the spa industry will be joining us as authors this year, looking at the overlap between their business and the hotel business.
Mia Kyricos, Director of Global Spa Brands and Programming for Starwood Hotels & Resorts, will describe her expectations for the growing convergence of spas and hotels.
Anna Bjurstam, Partner and Concept Director for Raison d’Etre in Stockholm, will provide a complementary view on the trends she is expecting for 2010 within the four walls of a spa itself.
3 July 2009 Julie Squires, Vice President of Atlanta-based Softscribe, will share her expertise and outlook on social network marketing and how that will be changing the marketing landscape in the hotel business next year.
2 July 2009 Jan Freitag, Vice President, Smith Travel Research, will analyze for us the likely state of the US hotel market in 2010.
Allen Toman, independent real estate consultant based in Italy, will once again write about the outlook for European capital markets and their impact on development next year.
1 July 2009 Lagos, Nigeria-based Trevor Ward, Managing Director of W Hospitality Group, is putting together a comprehensive outlook on the hotel business’ prospects in Southern Africa next year.
20 June 2009
The Advisory Board of The Hotel Yearbook also welcomes Ms. Lyndall De Marco, one of the world’s leading advocates of sustainable business practices in the global hospitality industry. Lyndall is a respected speaker and presenter at industry forums all over the world. We are thrilled that she accepted our invitation to join the Board, which now consist of 14 members.
16 June 2009 The Advisory Board of The Hotel Yearbook welcomes Chris Luebkeman, Director, Arup Foresight Innovation and Incubation, London. Chris is an architect, as well as a noted strategist and consultant on the fascinating subject of change.
10 June 2009
The Hotel Yearbook has established for the first time an Advisory Board to provide ideas and feedback concerning new editorial content and for making the publishing model as viable as possible. Click here for a list of its 12 members.
30 April 2009
The Hotel Yearbook 2009 has been distributed so far this year at the following hotel investment conferences:
• Hotel Investment Forum India (HIFI), Mumbai – January
• Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS), San Diego – January
• Central America Tourism & Hotel Investment Exchange (CATHIE), Managua – March
• Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Investment Conference (CHTIC), Bermuda – April
• International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF), Berlin – March
Next handout will be to the delegates of:
• Hotel Investment Conference Asia-Pacific (HICAP), Hong Kong – October
