Crans-Montana — looking away is not a strategy
Why avoidance is the most expensive response to known fire protection risk.
Lease disputes — a hardening landscape
Why older hotels are increasingly the site of technical confrontations between operators and owners, and how to stay ahead of the problem.
Brand loyalty is not a maintenance programme
Why a familiar brand name is no substitute for a current condition assessment — and what to watch for in FF&E maintenance obligations.
Converting a hotel to residential — rarely as simple as it looks
A real case study in why German planning and consent procedures make even straightforward conversions anything but.
What tableware tells us about restaurant interiors
The latest Ambiente collections offer a more honest indicator of design direction than most specification guides. A note for hotel F&B operators.
Are our hotels quietly deteriorating?
Why deferred maintenance is becoming a competitive liability — and what owners should do before it becomes a crisis.
Crans-Montana is not an exception
How owners and operators of older properties can identify technical exposures and address them before they become a liability event.
Germany’s second tier of building regulation
Those developing, planning or repositioning hotel assets need to understand that statutory building law is only half the picture.
When grandfathering no longer holds
A forensic look at how unfulfilled legacy conditions, unapproved alterations and changes of use can silently invalidate a property's existing-use status — and why a thorough review of planning records and fire protection is a non-negotiable precondition to any conversion.
Twenty planning errors that cost money
The recurring mistakes that depress operating performance, inflate cost and damage guest satisfaction scores — and how to design them out from the start.