When preparing the first edition of the Uniform System of Accounts for Hotels in 1926, the Hotel Association of New York City set out to establish a uniform “responsibility accounting

Two thoughts have recently come to mind in regards to hotel franchising. The first is a legal development out of California that franchisors should take note.

For the past thirty years, I have made a good living doing what I love to do.  I am one of the most widely-published hotel consultants in the United States.  Yet my entry into the hotel business was a random series of unexpected opportunities.

Hotel owners have the power to protect themselves from bad franchise practices. But they must act.

Hotel franchise companies performance appraisal report, who's coming to the United States and a clear-eyed, down-to-earth forecast of hotel capital markets are all in this article.

Here is the score card that examines how major hotel brands rank in franchisee-friendly practices, according to AAHOAs 12 Points of Fair Franchising.

As hotels struggle with declining occupancy and below average ADR growth in 2008, the U.S. lodging industry now looks back fondly at 2007.

Last month, six large hotel franchisor company ads appeared in Hotel Business magazine (June 7-20, 2008) for Doubletree, Embassy Suites, Carlson, the Hilton Family, La Quinta Inns and Element by Westin.

In the recent past, I have written about the shortcomings of arbitration as a dispute-resolving format for hotel franchise agreements.

In 2008 it is evident that liquidity in the hotel ownership market has been drastically reduced, RevPAR expectations have been revised downward, and transactions have considerably slowed.