This results season has, so far, been a cracker for people who like things normal. And let’s just nip any thoughts of philosophical discourse in the bud right now, it’s not that sort of column. The hotel sector is largely inclined to define ‘normal’ as ‘how it was last time we were making money without […]
We have always had a soft spot for the Pandox Hotel Market Day and this year left us as squishy as ever, albeit in a thoughtful, geopolitical way. You don’t hear a lot of ‘ethnocentric world view’ at the average hotel gathering, but maybe we should. For hotels, looking out through the revolving door and
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Business on top, party down below was the hairstyle descriptor attributed to our digital nomad lifestyles and many of us embraced the opportunity to frighten the local corner shop folk with our style choices. And those of us who have been lucky enough to be able to work remotely have had a good run of
People’s relationship with the exchange of their labour for cash is fraught. Is it meant to be about suffering? There is a marked lack of people who win the Lottery, but who continue to work. Is it just meant to be a bit crap? The pandemic is the latest jolt which was meant to change
The sector was in a frenzy of facts and chat this week, as hotel companies raced to get their results out before Halloween, ensuing that they can dress up like ghouls and go and frighten the neighbours unhindered by the strains of work. One assumes. And the reassuring news for the market was that they
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This week, as we recover from a month rich in bank holidays, a closer look at what many of you have in your kennels. Are they good at guarding your fortune? Loyal? Likely to dominate your bed? Which dog breed is your CEO’s spirit animal? Chris Nasetta: The Golden Retriever. The most optimistic person in
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This week results season reached the deep core of the branded hotel sector, with Marriott and Hilton giving us a look at their ankles and some answers to those favourite questions: ‘when is it going to be 2019 again’ and ‘what are you going to do about this pesky inflation?’ We’ll begin with the latter.
Pandox’s first results since the death of Anders Nissen saw the group coming out strong, with acting CEO Liia Nõu commenting: “I feel – despite the difficult situation – optimism for the future”. Nõu described “considerable pent-up demand for travel” which was converting into occupancy when covid restrictions were cut, commenting that, with 80% of
I spoke to Anders Nissen with clockwork regularity over the years. Once a quarter, to ask him how things were going with the company, where he saw the opportunities, what was intriguing him about the sector. In between times I would pick his brain on his favourite topics: the brands and where it made sense
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