Bob Habeeb

The hotel industry has a lot of reasons for positivity.

It’s a strange time to be buying and selling hotels.

Hospitality leaders have spent years expressing repeated concern about the industry’s ongoing labor shortage, and yet it persists. Indeed, nearly three years into the pandemic, there are more open ...

By this point in the recovery cycle, the hotel industry's winners and losers in the pandemic are clear to see: Extended-stay hotels thrived without stumbling, while many hotels located outside of the ...

Millennials travel more than any other generation (82% when compared to 75% of all other generations), and they spend more when they do. Capturing the business of this generation as it ages and ...

At a time when the influence of new technology, the emergence of new hospitality competitors and impact of millennials and younger consumers are combining to spur profound change in the hotel ...

There is no question that we are in the midst of a huge shift in consumer behaviors and desires. And at a time when the priorities and preferences of consumers are changing, perhaps faster than at ...

As so much attention is directed toward millennials these days, there’s a real danger of losing sight of the fact that this demographic group is more than just a potential source of income or a ...

Multibranding—combining more than one hotel brand into a single hotel property—is an increasingly common hotel development strategy. These properties may include brands from varied franchisors or, ...

While there is understandably a great deal of discussion and debate amongst hoteliers about how the political transition in the United States will affect the industry going forward, it might be a ...

In the hotel business, select service has been the coin of the realm for some time now, and there has been much more select-service development going on than full-service development.

In the summer of 2010, approximately 47,000 guests stayed at Airbnb properties. By the summer of 2015, that number had risen to a cool 17 million.

“Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.”

It’s no secret that technology has a major impact on the hotel industry.    From online booking to innovative apps, it seems that I read news stories every week exploring the digital dimensions of ...

When we look closely at the hotel development dynamics in Chicago right now, the obvious headline is the continuing surge of development in the Windy City’s central business district.    The ...

Great restaurants and memorable bars have long been an essential part of the mystique for many successful hotels. In the last 10 years or so, hotel owners and operators have gotten more creative, and ...

Increasing the federal minimum wage continues to be a heated topic across the country. While food service workers have largely led this movement, it’s not unreasonable to think that the effects of a ...

In my many years in the hotel industry, I have seen a number of new challenges. I have weathered economic uncertainty, and I have seen consumer preferences seemingly change on a dime. If there is one ...

At a time when we are finally beginning to stop referencing the ongoing recovery and discussing hotel development activity, we might already be getting ready to experience a market peak.   ...

Historically speaking, hotels always have been big draws in their communities. It was not all that long ago that hotels—especially full-service hotels—occupied an important place on the social ...