We have written thousands of articles about all aspects of hospitality, including valuations, investing, lending, operations, asset management, and much more.
In this article, we provide the market opinions of key HVS global leaders in many different regions of the world. HVS operates across the world, and regional leaders are keenly aware of the dynamics and trends that are influencing performance, profitability, and value.
This article examines Israel's tourism and hospitality industry, hotel investment and transactions market and the likely speed of recovery following the end of the war. It also discusses to what extent Israel's operational resilience, strategic flexibility and the untapped potential of the Abraham Accords will allow its tourism industry to recover.
The MEA hospitality sector is shifting toward diversified, leisure-led, and ESG-driven investments. AI and digital tools enhance forecasting, asset management, and valuation, but human expertise remains crucial. Sustainability is now integral in design, operations, and governance. Success hinges on adaptive, experience-focused offerings, stakeholder collaboration, and leadership that balances analytics with empathy to drive profitable, purposeful, and resilient growth.
HVS MEA has appointed Bhavna Bhatia as Partner – Executive Search, recognising her two decades of shaping senior talent across MEA and India. Known for her strategic insight, sound judgement, and calm handling of high-stakes mandates, she has been central to strengthening the firm’s leadership advisory. Her promotion reflects her impact, expertise, and strong client relationships.
Hala Matar Choufany explores with Shaikha Al Nowais how tourism can create impact, uncovering her experiences, values, and vision for the industry.
Experience-led tourism presents an opportunity to develop conservation-driven hunting reserves in the Middle East. Success depends on balancing exclusivity with accessibility, embedding sustainability, diversifying experiences beyond hunting, and offering strong F&B and wellness programs. Transparent conservation funding and operational efficiency will be key to creating a new, credible nature-based hospitality segment.
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.
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.
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.
We have written thousands of articles about all aspects of hospitality, including valuations, investing, lending, operations, asset management, and much more.
In this article, we provide the market opinions of key HVS global leaders in many different regions of the world. HVS operates across the world, and regional leaders are keenly aware of the dynamics and trends that are influencing performance, profitability, and value.
This article examines Israel's tourism and hospitality industry, hotel investment and transactions market and the likely speed of recovery following the end of the war. It also discusses to what extent Israel's operational resilience, strategic flexibility and the untapped potential of the Abraham Accords will allow its tourism industry to recover.
The MEA hospitality sector is shifting toward diversified, leisure-led, and ESG-driven investments. AI and digital tools enhance forecasting, asset management, and valuation, but human expertise remains crucial. Sustainability is now integral in design, operations, and governance. Success hinges on adaptive, experience-focused offerings, stakeholder collaboration, and leadership that balances analytics with empathy to drive profitable, purposeful, and resilient growth.
HVS MEA has appointed Bhavna Bhatia as Partner – Executive Search, recognising her two decades of shaping senior talent across MEA and India. Known for her strategic insight, sound judgement, and calm handling of high-stakes mandates, she has been central to strengthening the firm’s leadership advisory. Her promotion reflects her impact, expertise, and strong client relationships.
Hala Matar Choufany explores with Shaikha Al Nowais how tourism can create impact, uncovering her experiences, values, and vision for the industry.
Experience-led tourism presents an opportunity to develop conservation-driven hunting reserves in the Middle East. Success depends on balancing exclusivity with accessibility, embedding sustainability, diversifying experiences beyond hunting, and offering strong F&B and wellness programs. Transparent conservation funding and operational efficiency will be key to creating a new, credible nature-based hospitality segment.
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.
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.
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.
Robust demand in urban centers continues to drive Canadian hotel values despite high interest rate environment.
