
Nearly 500 hotel owners, lenders, brokers, and developers joined with other hotel experts from HVS and major brands to discuss current and future trends in the U.S. hotel industry.

What is needed to reposition an entire destination? All around the world destinations reach a mature life cycle and are forced to re-invent themselves due to increased global competition. This case study on Montenegro can provide an insight.

Asheville’s hotel industry, as shown by increases in rooms sales and new hotel supply, is rapidly escaping the drag of the recent recession.

This review of Sascha Reichstein’s Be my Guest, examines Hilton’s dual role as an international American symbol and a local institution. Reichstein’s book uses photographic images and employee interviews to contrast two international Hilton hotels.

In this article we present recent tourist visitation trends in the Milan market and consider the upscale hotel performance for the last three years. We also present our performance forecast up to 2016 and discuss the current values of Milan's hotels.

The article deals with the hotel and tourism markets in Madrid and Barcelona, reviewing 2011 data and comparing with previous years. The reader will learn about visitation, performance, supply, especially the five-star segment in both cities.

This market snapshot is part of a series of articles that HVS produces on key hotel sectors across
Europe. Our analysis is based on data for a sample of 74 mainly branded properties in Prague as provided by
STR Global.

The HVS Executive Search Hong Kong office announced promotions for Chris Anklin, Scott Chiesa and Debbie Ma.

The 2012 European Hotel Valuation Index tracks trends in upscale hotel values in 33 key European markets. 2011
started as a year of improved performance, but it deteriorated to renewed uncertainty about the future during the second half of the year.

Total European hotel transaction volume reached approximately €7.1 billion in 2011, an increase of 9% on the €6.5 billion recorded in 2010.