Selling a hotel can come with a great amount of pressure to ensure the business appeals to prospective buyers. If sellers don't take the steps necessary to make their businesses marketable, they could face a long, tedious process and ultimately sell for much less money than they had hoped. Fortunately, there are steps that sellers can take to avoid this situation and put themselves in the position for a quick, smooth sale. Read my article below to learn what hotel sellers need to know about marketability when putting their businesses on the market. READ MORE

The challenge of optimizing IT investment is relentless for the hospitality sector. This article reviews some of the salient issues that impact on optimizing new technologies by revisiting the determinants of technology adoption and then by sharing some of my research into Strategic Technology Relationships in the Hotel Sector, conducted earlier this year with the hospitality technology managers (CIOs and IT Directors) in the major European hotels. Finally, some suggestions are proposed for the future optimization of technology in the hospitality sector. READ MORE

With hotel executives discussing the newest updates to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating systems, LEED 2012, due to be released in November of this year by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), many are asking what this will mean to the hospitality industry. Trish Donnally, ForrestPerkins' director of communications, talks to top hoteliers and sustainability specialists and reveals why LEED 2012 could be a game changer. READ MORE

Some of us prefer to pay for well-made products that operate effectively, yet when we try to buy a cell phone, landline phone (or almost anything else you care to name) that has not been made in China (usually with as many short cuts as possible to maximize profits) it proves practically impossible. The ubiquity of it all makes for a grim shopping experience. Extrapolating into the hospitality world, imagine if hotel ratings were adjusted so that two-stars were reported as five-stars because occupancy rates were insufficient in "higher-end" hotels to justify the service levels of "old-style" five-stars. READ MORE

The advent of publishing tools for the web made it possible for the nontechnical user to publish content without any knowledge of HTML or FTP, and ushered in the era of the web blog… a term used to describe web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. This is often referred to as a form of social media advertising. The question that businesses are now asking themselves is one of participation, should their company be blogging? READ MORE