by Saurabh Gupta | May 19, 2020 | Covid-19, Investment Advisory
M&A in a Period of Uncertainty The month of March 2020 unleashed the full impact of COVID 19 on the hospitality sector. Business had already started drying up at the start of the month but came to a grinding halt with the essential lockdown. It was almost like...
by Saurabh Gupta | Apr 20, 2020 | Asset Management, Covid-19, Hotel Operations
How Will Hotels Turn Profitable Again? In times of crisis, it’s wonderful what the imagination will do. – Ruskin Bond The onset of COVID-19 is the mega crisis of our lifetime. For the hospitality sector, it is an Armageddon event threatening to wipe out the good, the...
by Saurabh Gupta | Jun 25, 2019 | Asset Management, Hotel Development, Hotel Operations
Opening a Hotel? An Asset Manager Can Help! “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” ― Benjamin Franklin Hotel openings are an elaborate affair that seek focused inputs from the ownership at a pre-opening stage. While the hotel management company and...
by Saurabh Gupta | Aug 1, 2018 | Hotel Development, Hotel Finance, Investment Advisory, Travel & Tourism
Why Resorts Make Commercial Sense Will the next few years belong to resorts in leisure destinations or to big city hotels that are driven primarily by commercial demand? Should investors focus on resorts or on business hotels? In an evolving hotel industry such as...
by Saurabh Gupta | Apr 17, 2018 | Asset Management, Hotel Development, Hotel Operations
Evolution Of Asset Management In Hotels N ot too long back, hotel ownership and hotel management in Asia were like Siamese twins – co-joined at birth, despite being distinctly different from each other. Four domestic chains largely dominated the hotel ownership...
