Lodging Hospitality’s
“Lifestyle/Boutique Hotel Investors Conference”
is slated for October 17 - 19, 2012
in Miami at the Fontainebleau Hotel.
This-two-and-half day conference will focus on the growing lifestyle and boutique sectors of the lodging industry.
Attendance will be hotel owners, operators and developers with sponsorships and support to come from the industry’s leading hotel brands and our co-sponsor HVS.
LifeSTYLE/ Boutique Development Conference is
Produced by Lodging Hospitality in Affiliation with HVS:
Lodging Hospitality serves the domestic U.S. lodging industry, which includes hotels, motels, motor inns, and resorts. LH covers site selection, operations, design and decor, financing, building, personnel, maintenance, computerization, merchandising and renovation. Editorial is targeted to executives and managers of properties with more than 50 rooms - the segment most often targeted by vendors. This editorial is produced by a staff with more years of experience in the hospitality press than other industry publications.
HVS Hotel Management is the division of HVS that performs all of the firm’s operations and related work in the United States. This work includes actual Hotel Management, AssetManagement, Management Company Selection and Contract Negotiation, Brand Selection and Contract Negotiation, being a Court Appointed Receiver, Expert Witness Services, Pre-Opening Services, Hotel Performance Analysis, Investment Analysis, and related Consulting. We can provide our clients with one contact point for coordination of multiple services from other divisions of HVS in our 30 International offices such as appraisal/valuation, capital markets for new equity, design, renovation, repositioning coordination, and executive recruitment for the right team to execute the plan.
Topics that will be covered
Boutique & Lifestyle Hotels: What’s Ahead?
Segment experts, including analysts, owners and brand executives, review operating data for lifestyle and boutique properties and discuss future trends in this fast-changing business.
Boutique/Lifestyle Hotels: From A to Z
A panel of boutique/lifestyle experts discuss some of the key issues facing owners and operators, including the necessity of a spa, how to handle f&b, how star/diamond ratings affect performance, etc.
Anatomy of a Boutique Development
Case study following the ins and outs of developing a new boutique hotel in a college campus market from the viewpoints of owner, operator, architect, designer and marketer of the property.
Boutique Marketing: How to Find New Customers
Distribution strategies and channel management isn’t as easy as it used to be. A group of experts discuss different approaches to OTAs, Google, Facebook booking engines and more.
Greening of Boutique Hotel Renovations
A panel of experts will examine the whys and hows of incorporating sustainable design practices and products into upgrades at such locales
Brand vs. Independent
An update on brand initiatives aimed at attracting boutiques and lifestyle hotels to their full-fledged flags and alliances.
New Approaches to Boutique Development
The latest trends in adaptive reuse of non-lodging assets and repositioning of existing hotels into boutique hotels. Topics include use of available tax credits and how to assemble a team for a redevelopment project.
What Is a Boutique Hotel?
Results of new research delve into the definitions of boutique and lifestyle hotels. Panelists will also look at how hotels in the segment can differentiate themselves to guests and financing sources.
The Boutique & Lifestyle Financing Landscape
A panel of lodging lenders explore the opportunities and challenges in today’s financing environment. Who’s lending, what projects are getting money and what are the terms are all topics to be explored.
Steve Rushmore on the Boutique Business
Valuations guru and HVS founder Stephen Rushmore presents his outlook of future trends in boutique and lifestyle hotel performance, valuations, transactions and development.
Boutique Leaders Speak Out
A panel of boutique and lifestyle hotel owners and operators tackle the big issues they face: distribution management, marketing, branding, financing, labor, f&b and more.