The Caribbean has long captivated travelers with its natural beauty, year-round sunshine, and vibrant culture. Within the ABC Islands (Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao), Curaçao has recently emerged as a standout, fueled by its distinct identity, growing investments, and increasing global visibility.
Immigration policy is reshaping how hotels find and keep talent. This article explores why U.S. hospitality’s heavy reliance on foreign-born workers makes visa caps, enforcement shifts, and processing delays critical business issues – and shows how forward-thinking operators are diversifying recruitment, strengthening internal pipelines, and building resilience to protect service quality and profitability.
HVS discusses the main hotel transactions that took place in the first half of 2025 and looks at the trends in single-asset and portfolio transactions over the years.
Today’s travelers are prioritizing their health and wellbeing more than ever before, triggering the rapid development worldwide of dedicated resorts and driving mainstream hotels to expand their facilities. Hala Matar Choufany, president of HVS Middle East Africa, drills down into the numbers and explains why health-related resorts offer significant potential for regional developers.
With new deals reshaping the landscape, strategic partnerships and acquisitions are back in focus across India’s hospitality sector. Read on to know more.
Austin, Dallas, Houston, and Fort Worth are pursuing convention center expansions totaling $7.6 to $7.8 billion, with San Antonio considering an additional $900 million project. These developments are largely enabled by Texas’s innovative financing mechanisms, such as Project Financing Zones. This article examines the scope of these projects and their policy foundations, while analyzing how they shape both Texas’s internal competition and its national positioning in the convention industry.
Our Serviced Apartment Sentiment Survey invited lenders, investors and operators to share their views on the challenges and strategic focus points in 2025 and beyond.
Snapshot of the Edinburgh hotel market in 2025 with an exploration of tourism demand, hotel performance, hotel supply, the investment market and the market outlook.
In Focus: Indonesia provides an overview of Indonesia's tourism landscape and hotel market performance, infrastructure developments, hotel transactions and investments in 2024, an in-focus topic on the 10 priority destinations as well as an outlook.
Africa’s hotel pipeline is expanding, but delivery challenges persist. The Future Hospitality Summit Africa highlighted issues like misaligned financing, FX volatility, and policy fragmentation. While investor interest is strong, success now hinges on execution, local expertise, and viable delivery models.