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Hotel Management
The total construction pipeline ended 2016 with 4,960 projects with 598,688 rooms, a 12-percent increase by number of projects and a 10-percent rise in the number of rooms year over year, according to the year-end United States Construction Pipeline Trend Report from Lodging Econometrics.
The fourth quarter of 2016 was the 19th consecutive quarter of pipeline growth since the cyclical bottom of 2,720 projects with 331,129 rooms reported in the first quarter of 2012.
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Hotel Business Review
In the age when reviews are a Tweet away and websites such as TripAdvisor leave a long trail of guest comments, hoteliers are under increasing pressure to keep properties up to guests' high standards. While a quick coat of paint or a new set of furniture can often keep a hotel looking great for a while, eventually every hospitality professional has to manage a major renovation.
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Meetings Net
Global design firm Gensler won the Sleep Set competition at Sleep 2016, the annual hotel design event, with a radically different conception of what guest rooms — and hotels — may become. The guests they were assigned to design for were termed "Digital Avant-Gardes" — "globalized, nonconformist travelers in constant search of new, enriching encounters, cultural engagement, knowledge and inspiration."
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Lodging
With 30 years of experience in the hospitality industry, Phil Tufano, partner and COO at San Francisco-based management company Kokua Hospitality, is an expert in operating and managing hotels. He has renovated, reengineered, and repositioned properties branded under Hilton, Hyatt and Starwood and he currently manages and advises 13 properties under Kokua. Tufano shares five tips for operating a hotel effectively and efficiently.
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Water Technology
Condensate is considered good water — as pure as distilled water, low in mineral content and can be used for a number of applications in addition to cooling towers. It can be used for irrigation, in ornamental fountains and ponds, for industrial process makeup and even flushing toilets, if filtered and disinfected first.
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Lodging
Changes in rooms revenue per available room (RevPAR) and RevPAR penetration receive a lot of attention from hotel managers. Obviously, this is because renting guestrooms is the major source of revenue across all property types in the United States. According to the 2016 edition of Trends in the Hotel Industry, rooms revenue averaged 68.1 percent of total operating revenue in 2015. This metric exceeds 97 percent at limited-service and extended-stay hotels. Alternatively, rooms revenue comprises only 51.8 percent of total revenue at resorts.
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Data Informed
According to a study by Navigant Research, total global revenue from commercial building automation will increase from approximately $70 billion and reach $101 billion in 2021. The largest market for building management system spending is North America, which is forecast to remain so for approximately two years.
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FacilitiesNet
Panic hardware, also known as an exit device or fire exit hardware when used on fire doors, is designed to provide fast and easy egress to allow building occupants to exit safely in an emergency. Code publications define panic hardware as, "a door-latching assembly incorporating a device that releases the latch upon the application of a force in the direction of egress travel."
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Hotel Management
The truth is that mobile key is the safest room access option on the market today, with multiple layers of security. That’s the case made by Brian Shedd, VP of sales and marketing for OpenKey.
"Frequent travelers will leave their keycard in their jacket to help them remember the room number — providing any thief with everything they need to find and access their room," he said.
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Hotel News Now
From the front door to the rooftop at The Watson Hotel in New York City, a variety of colorful plants, ranging from hibiscus trees to floral arrangements in the lobby, can be found throughout the two-tower, 600-room hotel.
Most urban hotels lack the amount of acreage that some suburban and resort properties have, which sometimes makes it harder to create green space.
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