LODGING LEADERS
189 | Hospitality Operations Built on Proven Principles with Adam Knight
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Adam Knight is a 20+ year veteran of the luxury hotel industry and owner of Proven Principles, a hospitality consulting firm that helps vacation rental owners and customer service focused businesses drive better performance, productivity and profitability with best-in-class operations strategy, employee training and project management.
In This Episode, Adam reveals …
- How managers can go about building the best team, and the best way to get a team working towards a common goal.
- How managers can give purpose to the work that their employees perform.
- Some of the roadblocks that managers deal with in training or developing their teams, and what to do when an employee is working against you.
- How to build a strong internal culture – one where employees are raving fans of what they are doing.
Resources & Links
Adam Knight
- Email: adam@theprovenprinciples.com
The Proven Principles
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346 | Repositioning For Recovery: Hotel conversions to outpace new builds
Lodging Econometrics has tracked the hotel industry since 1998. Its global database includes new-hotel pipelines as well as renovations and brand conversions. Hotel franchisers once eager to launch new brands are focused on converting existing hotels because it’s a faster way to recover revenue lost to the COVID-19 pandemic than through new construction. In Episode 346, Lodging Leaders explores the increasing number of conversions in the U.S. hotel industry and what owners and operators need to consider before repositioning an asset.
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345 | ‘Rosy View of Future’: Hotel industry sees unleashing of pent-up investor demand
In the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., financiers anticipated a swell of distressed hotel businesses. Some raised rescue funds to respond to what they thought was a pending crisis. Though there are financial rescues taking place, the level of such activity is far below what industry advisers and fund managers expected. Commercial real estate investors positioned to act in the early days of the pandemic held off and are now just beginning to unleash their cash hoards totaling billions of dollars. Episode 345 of Lodging Leaders podcast explores the state of capital investment in the hotel industry.