Resort And Hotel Properties

• Coverage: this book looks at all the essentials of developing hospitality properties, providing an introductory overview of the subject area. • Approach: illustrates the technical aspects of the subject in a cohesive, practical way, treating the reader as if they were a hospitality manager seeking assistance from various industry experts. • Authorship: compiled of contributions from over 20 industry experts, ensuring a strong knowledge base and a robust real-world dimension for the book. • Structure: the tried-and-tested logical manner in which the book is split into the 5 parts follows an industry approach to the topic of hospitality facility development and lends itself to being used as a set text in universities, as well as by industry professionals as a teaching tool.

Hotels and Resorts: An investor's guide presents a comprehensive analysis of how hotels, golf courses, spas serviced apartments, gyms and health clubs and resorts are developed, operate and are valued. Drawing on over 18 years’ experience in the leisure property industry, David Harper provides invaluable advice on how to buy, develop and sell such properties. Working through the required due diligence process for purchases, including how to identify a "good buy", through the "route map" for a successful development and ending with how to ensure you maximise your returns when selling the asset, this book covers the whole life-cycle of leisure property ownership. Examples of valuations, development issues and sales processes are taken from the USA, UK, France, Nigeria, Kenya, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Brazil provide in depth analysis on the similarities and differences in approach to hotels and resorts in various parts of the world. This book provides invaluable guidance to international investors, developers, asset managers and students in related subject areas.

An in-depth assessment of the entire scope of the U.S. lodging industry ... from luxury resorts to budget motels ... from boutique hotels to timeshares ... from hotel condos to historic hotels ... from leisure guests to business customers ... from hotel fine dining to special holiday packages ... from guest amenities to accommodations for travelers with pets ... from financial assessments to geographic analysis.

Your Full Guide to Owning & Operating a Hospitality Property - SuccessfullyIndependent Hotel, Resort, Inn or Bed & BreakfastHow do I open or grow my hotel, a resort, inn, or bed & breakfast?This is a question I am often asked, but before I answer, let me begin by asking you a couple of questions. Is the idea of being your own boss sound appealing to you? Is the thought of sharing your corner of the world with guests intriguing? Have you ever thought about owning your own independent hotel, resort, inn or bed & breakfast, but are not sure or the steps to take to ensure success?If you have answered YES to any of these questions, this book is for you. If you have dreams of becoming a successful independent hotel, resort, inn or bed & breakfast proprietor, this book is designed to get you started and to grow your business. "Your Full Guide to Owning & Operating a Hospitality Property - Successfully" will share you more than just quick-fix tactics but instead how to develop successful long-term operation methods.We understand how busy you are, so the book is divided into four separate series. They include: Series #1 - Your Hospitality Property Organizational StructureWhere to Start - Your Organizational Strategy - Your Management StrategyYour Operation - OutsourcingSeries #2 - Employee DevelopmentThe Right Mindset - Hiring Winners - Employee Training - Effective Communication Will Improve Your Property - Customer Service - Customer Complaints - How to Upsell - How to Fire Series #3 - Marketing for Your Hospitality Properties Success Your Marketing Strategy - Branding - Effective Website - Guest List Building Social Media - Creating a Successful Blog - Marketing - Social Media - Customer Giveaways - Newsletters - Surveys Series #4 - How Do You See Your Property?How Does Your Property Compare - Become Your Own Guest - Hospitality Property Accessible -Your Restaurant - Endless Referrals - Negative Reviews - The Future What you will learn here will help you stay two steps ahead of your competition, increase your bookings and patronage, while enjoying a fun & fulfilled life as a hotelier/innkeeper.

These intimate stories of South Indian immigrants and the families they left behind center women’s lives and ask how women both claim and surrender power—a stunning debut collection from an O. Henry Prize winner Traveling from Pittsburgh to Eastern Washington to Tamil Nadu, these stories about dislocation and dissonance see immigrants and their families confront the costs of leaving and staying, identifying sublime symmetries in lives growing apart. In “Malliga Homes,” selected by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for an O. Henry Prize, a widow in a retirement community glimpses her future while waiting for her daughter to visit from America. In "No. 16 Model House Road," a woman long subordinate to her husband makes a choice of her own after she inherits a house. In "Nature Exchange," a mother grieving in the wake of a school shooting finds an unusual obsession. In "A Life in America," a professor finds himself accused of having exploited his graduate students. Sindya Bhanoo’s haunting stories show us how immigrants’ paths, and the paths of those they leave behind, are never simple. Bhanoo takes us along on their complicated journeys where regret, hope, and triumph appear in disguise.

This book provides a complete overview of timeshare development and operation models. The authors take a comprehensive look at the present and future of this growing segment of the hospitality industry, including specialized approaches to marketing, human resources, service quality, finance, legal considerations and professional ethics. Timeshare, or vacation ownership, is a relatively recent leisure phenomenon. It emerged in the late 1950s as a way to secure extra capital resources to fund property expansion. Shareholders had the right to use these properties on a regular basis. Although arrangements have grown in complexity and variation, the model allows for customers to buy rights to use a property for a fixed time period each year. Timeshare arrangements have experienced rapid international growth particularly in the last fifteen to twenty years and are now an important vacation arrangement. Most of the world's major hotel and resort developers now operate timeshare properties. Firms like Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, Disney and Ramada have brought a new formality and legitimacy to timeshare development and operation.

This book provides a complete overview of timeshare development and operation models. The authors take a comprehensive look at the present and future of this growing segment of the hospitality industry, including specialized approaches to marketing, human resources, service quality, finance, legal considerations and professional ethics. Timeshare, or vacation ownership, is a relatively recent leisure phenomenon. It emerged in the late 1950s as a way to secure extra capital resources to fund property expansion. Shareholders had the right to use these properties on a regular basis. Although arrangements have grown in complexity and variation, the model allows for customers to buy rights to use a property for a fixed time period each year. Timeshare arrangements have experienced rapid international growth particularly in the last fifteen to twenty years and are now an important vacation arrangement. Most of the world's major hotel and resort developers now operate timeshare properties. Firms like Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, Disney and Ramada have brought a new formality and legitimacy to timeshare development and operation.