This highly-popular (and now sold-out) event features sessions covering a vast range of topics related to forming a management company, including site and franchisor selection, pre-opening and ramp-up, financing, design and development. AAHOA held the first "How to Form a Management Company" in October 2016, and a second related event called "How to Develop a Hotel" in March 2017. Both were met with huge success, selling out in just a couple weeks. Tarun Kapoor, managing director of Kapoor & Kapoor Hospitality, is facilitating the event, and will also moderate a panel discussion – Lessons from Successful AAHOA Developers – featuring some of the industry’s top hotel executives. The event is being held in Chattanooga, Tenn., at the DoubleTree Hotel, July 24-25. If you are interested in attending and have not already registered, there is a waitlist available.

Now you can give your hotel guests a free entertainment experience that they will remember and come back for: The DIRECTV experience they love at home is now available in your rooms.

Luxury hospitality means offering guests five-star service, but the industry and its customers are starting to recognize that the future of the business will be cut short without a focus on the environmental impact of their operations. The emergence of a social trend that emphasizes consciousness around conservation is influencing the market and becoming an important factor in gaining approval of luxury travelers.

New research conducted on a sample of nearly 5,000 hotel transactions in the U.S. explores how superlative building status, such as being the tallest, the largest or the oldest, raises or diminishes value, and whether this pattern varies across contexts.

Nowadays, hoteliers are so inundated with technology that the tasks of prioritization and selection have become far more than just daunting; research and procurement are practically a job title unto themselves! With this in mind, simplify your journey by defining hospitality technology according to these four distinct pillars. While each pillar interconnects with the others in various forms, breaking them down into silos will help you weigh the financials as well as ensure that no single area goes overlooked for too long.