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.
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.
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.
Our views around the world reflect early optimism for 2025, with the anticipation of stronger transaction activity and modestly improving hotel metrics in most regions.
The Middle East's luxury hotel market is expanding, fueled by economic diversification and a growing population of high-net-worth individuals. Key destinations like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar are experiencing significant development in luxury accommodations. However, potential oversupply in major cities could affect room rates and occupancy. The outlook remains positive, supported by continued investment in unique, high-end experiences.
Snapshot of the Berlin hotel market in 2024 with an exploration of tourism demand, hotel performance, hotel supply, the investment market and the market outlook.
Hala's contribution as one of the leading world experts in the "Business and Management Collection" from Henry Stewart Talks on the topic of Hospitality in the Middle East
Watch Hala Matar Choufany's discussion about the region's development of hotels, the existing challenges, and opportunities, at the 2023 Future Hospitality Summit