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Costa Rica shifts from tourism icon to diversified investment powerhouse
Costa Rica has built one of the most recognizable tourism identities in the Americas, grounded in sustainability, biodiversity, and nature-based experiences. For decades, this positioning favored low-density, experiential hospitality formats, often at the boutique or eco-luxury end of the spectrum.
New Zealand Hotel Performance Focus December 2025-January 2026
The New Zealand hotel sector delivered a strong summer performance over December 2025 and January 2026, with both demand and pricing improving across most major markets.
Impact of employee turnover on profitability in the Austrian hospitality industry
Whether hiking in the alpine regions, skiing in winter, or exploring cities, Austria offers a diverse range of experiences that reflect its geographical and cultural richness. It highlights a unique balance between rich history and architectural diversity, and natural beauty and scenic landscapes. With 32,2 million registered tourist arrivals in 2024, Austria ranked among the most popular travel destinations worldwide. The country’s high figures in tourist arrivals have notably contributed to the economy, with the hospitality and tourism industry accounting for around 4.7% of the country’s GDP in 2024.
India Hotel Market Review 2025
Horwath HTL’s India Hotel Market Review 2025 provides a year-end analysis of India’s hotel market performance, combining CoStar performance data with Horwath HTL’s supply research and market insights. The report reviews national trends and key city performance, highlights the opportunities and challenges shaping hotel owners, investors, developers and operators, and outlines how India’s hotel sector continues to grow despite global and domestic disruptions.
Turning Spas, Gyms and Retreats into profit centers
Historically, spas and gyms were considered an “amenity” or a nice-to-have perk intended to elevate the brand perception or to fulfil the “star rating” requirement. Today, the growing global emphasis in the post-COVID era on healthy lifestyles, work-life balance, mental wellbeing, and mindful living is driving increased spending on wellness services and retreat experiences.
A tribute to Hotel General Managers
Across the hospitality industry, the role of the Hotel General Manager (GM) has continued to expand in both scope and complexity over the years. Nowhere is this more visible than during regional or global GM conferences organised by international hotel groups, where General Managers gather to align on corporate direction and priorities.
Hotel boom at the expense of the city?
In Kaiserslautern, ECE plans to convert vacant retail space in the “K in Lautern” mall into a 139-room hotel, raising concerns among existing hoteliers already facing low occupancy rates and recent competition from a 146-room Holiday Inn Express opened in 2023. The project highlights a critical question: who bears the risk of new hotel developments in markets with existing overcapacity, especially when hotel investments are difficult to reverse and failed projects can become permanent urban planning burdens?
Unlocking hidden value in hotel real estate
Hotel profitability is under increasing pressure due to inflationary headwinds and payroll increases. Relying on traditional income sources is no longer enough: owners, operators and asset managers are now identifying alternative sources both within the hotel and around the site and available land. Strategic thinking on maximising revenue per square metre within the building footprint has led to some creative ideas which crucially do not impact the core business.
Local roots, global scale: five key drivers of management company consolidation
The post COVID recovery did more than repair the U.S. hotel industry – it reshaped where value is being created and who is best positioned to capture it. Nowhere is that clearer than in the Sunbelt and its collar markets, where demographic shifts, corporate relocations and “year round leisure” have combined to produce outsized and often resilient hotel performance.
Five drivers of hotel management company M&A in the Caribbean & Latin America (CALA) region
Independent hotel management companies are experiencing a period of accelerated growth across the Caribbean and Latin America (CALA), including Mexico. What was once a fragmented landscape of small, entrepreneurial operators is evolving into a dynamic ecosystem of increasingly sophisticated regional platforms — and capital providers are taking notice. For owners, investors, and lenders, the trend is not simply about operational preference. It reflects deeper structural forces reshaping the region’s hospitality sector: the need for local expertise, the pursuit of scale, the rapid modernization of technology and processes, and the growing demand for transparency, professionalism, and liquidity. Together, these drivers are creating a compelling case for independent operators as credible, aligned, and value‑enhancing partners for capital.
A unified vision for tourism readiness ahead of the World Cup
In 2026, the world will turn its eyes toward North America. For a month, the FIFA World Cup will become more than a global sporting competition – it will be a defining measure of how cities, nations, and industries craft human experience at scale.
Tactful ways to manage scope creep with demanding finance clients
In the world of finance projects – where accuracy, compliance and tight budgets are nonnegotiable – scope creep can easily turn a well-defined engagement into a resource drain. When scope creep happens, project requirements begin to expand beyond the original agreement, often through a series of small, incremental changes that were not formally approved.
Cuando el termómetro se rompe: el calor extremo que está marcando el verano en América Latina
Hay un tipo de calor que no se discute. No es “qué lindo día”, ni “se siente pesado”. Es el calor que te obliga a cambiar planes, a buscar sombra como si fuera un lujo. Ese calor volvió a aparecer con fuerza en América Latina entre el cierre de diciembre de 2025 y los primeros días de enero de 2026, con registros que, en varios lugares, quedaron cerca de marcas récord para la época. Y lo más importante: en las ciudades, se vive peor.
The campus as destination
How universities can use hospitality discipline to strengthen enrollment, revenue, and long-term resilience A university campus is one of the most complex real estate products in most markets. It is a learning environment, an employer, a cultural institution, a civic landmark, a landlord, a transportation network, a public realm, and in many towns, the closest thing to a year-round destination resort. Yet most universities still manage the campus experience as a set of separate functions rather than as a single, intentional “arrival-to-departure” journey.
The signals beneath the headlines
The final work week of the year has a distinct rhythm. Calendars thin out, inboxes slow just enough to create breathing room, and the urgency that defined much of the year gives way to reflection. It is one of the few moments when the lodging industry can step back from daily execution, absorb what has actually unfolded, and consider what the approach of a new year may hold.
Sustainability Insight
As Europe approaches the Christmas and New Year holidays, tourism flows are once again concentrating heavily in major cities and festive destinations. Winter pressure is urban, intense, and highly concentrated in time and space. Europe remains the world’s largest tourism region, with 625 million international tourists between January and September 2025, a 4 % increase over 2024, indicating continued strong rebound and growth. Put simply: the holidays won’t just be “busy.” They’ll be pressure-tests for city centres, infrastructure, housing, and resident tolerance.
Fixed Income Market Under Pressure: Implications for Hotel Financing in 2026
The close of 2025 sends a clear message: long-term interest rates are rising, even as central banks hint at moderating official rates in 2026. For hotel owners and investors, this “disconnect” between short and long-term rates is redefining the cost of capital, debt structures and asset valuations.
New Zealand Hotel Performance Focus November 2025
New Zealand’s hotel sector delivered one of its strongest months in several years in November 2025.