CBRE Hotels · 1 Oct

Hotels Owners Interested in Interest To analyze the impact that declining EBITDA levels had on the ability of hotel owners to pay their interest expense, CBRE studied a sample of 1,121 hotels that reported interest payments in their operating statements for the years 2019 and 2020.

CBRE Hotels · 2 Aug

Based on CBRE’s survey of monthly operating performance, U.S. hotels experienced a 58 percent decline in total hotel revenues from 2019 to 2020. This resulted in a decrease of 78 percent in profits at the Gross Operating Profit (GOP) level, along with a 107 percent fall off in Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization.

CBRE Hotels · 7 Jul

Hotel real estate investors need to measure both the absolute and relative financial performance of their properties. A 10% annual return may appear solid unless a collection of comparable investments earned 15%. Risk-adjusted returns measured against the appropriate index provide a way to assess managers’ abilities to generate excess returns. Measures of investment return come in many flavors.

CBRE Hotels · 2 Jul

Although telecommunications costs account for a small percentage of expenses, data during 2015 through 2019 revealed a significant upward trend in telecom related expenditures. To achieve more efficient hotel operations and survive the changing landscape, hotel owners and operators are finding new ways to control telecommunications expenses.

CBRE Hotels · 1 May

In 2019, 86% of the hotels that participated in CBRE Hotels Research's annual Trends® in the Hotel Industry survey of property-level operating statements reported the payment of a management fee. On average, these hotels paid management fees equal to 3.6% of total operating revenue. The management fee to revenue ratio was the highest for convention hotels (4.1%) and lowest for resorts and full-service hotels (3.5%). Relative to the bottom line, total management fees averaged 13.9% of profits. For this analysis, profits are defined as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA).

CBRE Hotels · 17 Aug

The COVID-19 virus has had an extreme negative impact on the U.S. lodging industry. According to CBRE's June 2020 edition of Hotel Horizons®, lodging demand in the U.S. will decline by 37.0 percent in 2020. This will cause a 38.0 percent drop in the national occupancy level, along with a 22.5 percent fall in average daily room rates (ADR). The net result is a projected 51.9 percent fall off in revenue per available room (RevPAR) for the year. Using historical data from the CBRE Trends® in the Hotel Industry database of operating statements, the most likely consequence of a 51.9 percent RevPAR decline is a Gross Operating Profits (GOP) decrease in excess of 80 percent.

CBRE Hotels · 21 Jul

As of the writing of this article we are in the early stages of evaluating the impact of the COVID-19 virus on the U.S. lodging industry. Owners and operators are discussing the potential use of business interruption insurance (BI) to cover expected losses in profits. Business interruption insurance covers the loss of income that a business suffers after a disaster. It is designed to put a business in the same financial position it would have been in if no loss had occurred. Owners and operators are encouraged to review their BI policies to determine if their businesses are covered from any losses attributable to the COVID-19 virus.

CBRE Hotels · 20 Jul

As a result of COVID-19, hotel operators have been forced to make tough decisions, including the most basic one on whether to keep the lights on. Many were required to close their doors after municipal mandates were put in place and some decided to remain open, despite record-low occupancy levels, to house pandemic-related first responders and other essential personnel related to the fallout from the spread of coronavirus, largely in place of more traditional sources of demand during "normal times".

CBRE Hotels · 8 May

The practice of asset management for hotels entering the third decade of the 21st Century has evolved into an intricate process of analyzing layers of data and operating results, and then acting based upon the conclusions. The process requires great focus. Asset management is the practice of managing the value of the owner's investment. And now that process becomes more urgent, but also more important than ever before.

CBRE Hotels · 20 Apr

Since January 2020, CBRE Hotels Research has been analyzing the impact of the COVID-19 virus to understand how the societal and economic impacts of COVID-19 will influence the performance of U.S. hotels.

CBRE Hotels · 16 Apr

CBRE Hotels Research was projecting a 1.1% increase in revenue per available room for the year. Even with this low level of revenue growth, there were certain factors that could have sustained—or at least cushioned the blow of minimal declines—the nine-year trend of profit growth for U.S. hotels since 2010.

CBRE Hotels · 17 Mar

The 11th edition of the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry (USALI) defines resort fees as, "mandatory fees charged at either a flat amount or a percentage of the room rate." These fees are frequently intended to cover services such as fitness facilities, spas, pools, local phone calls, Internet access, airport transportation, and golf driving ranges, among other recreational facilities.

CBRE Hotels · 17 Dec

Despite the relatively high cost of construction and complexity of operations, developers are still attracted to owning and managing luxury hotels. As of August 2019, STR reports that just 0.7 percent of the hotels (2.3% of rooms) in the United States are chain-affiliated luxury hotels. Concurrently, the STR pipeline report shows that 1.2 percent of the properties (2.9% of rooms) either under construction or planned for development meet this criterion.

CBRE Hotels · 19 Nov

Because federal government employees purchase a significant quantity of hotel rooms, the General Services Administration (GSA) has partnered with Federal Travel Regulation (FTR) compliant accommodations to provide federal travelers with per diem hotel room rates for select high-volume travel destinations in and outside of the Continental United States. These federal guidelines frequently serve to determine the hotel per diem allowances for state and local government travelers as well.

CBRE Hotels · 22 Oct

From the high-tech preferences of Generation Z, to the experiential fondness of Millennials, to the health and wellness realities facing Baby Boomers, hotels continually adjust the amenities and services they offer to satisfy their guests. These adjustments are based on extensive consumer research, much of which has been published in the lodging industry trade publications.

CBRE Hotels · 18 Oct

Rooms revenue per available room, reported as RevPAR, is perhaps the most scrutinized performance indicator in the hotel business. Although the true aim of a hotel's operation is to maximize profit, the wide availability and frequent reporting of RevPAR may make revenue the hotel manager's most immediate target. Revenue-maximizing is simpler to estimate and requires less information than profit-maximizing.