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The HMA Handbook, Hotel Management Agreements for Owners, Developers, Investors & Lenders Apr 8, 2023: The Global Hospitality Group® of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM) today announced the release of The HMA Handbook, Hotel Management Agreements for Owners, Developers, Investors & Lenders. This e-book is a practical guide for decision makers who want pragmatic advice from veterans with business and legal perspectives on getting great hotel operators, negotiating a fair hotel management agreement (HMA), and terminating a bad one when the operator deserves it..

A Quiz on Effective Hospitality Marketing: Using Complementary Tools Sep 30, 2022

Lessons From the Field™: Common Sense Approaches in Hotel Sales

For each of the last several years, I have felt honored to work with the award winning Short Course of the Texas Hotel & Lodging Association. TH&LA for the past six decades has annually offered a week-long course at a very attractive rate for rising hospitality professionals.

Last year, one of the topic areas I addressed was marketing. Today's rising professionals are very savvy on social media and a number of related areas. Below are a sampling of questions for your review. Mark True or False and take a moment to think why you answered the way you did.

Hospitality Keynote & Workshop Offerings KEYS TO SUCCESS™ Aug 9, 2021: The Keys to Success™ are results-driven programs aimed at building competitive advantage.

Most of these programs can be offered as either a keynote address or an interactive workshop.

“A Bakers Dozen” of Strategies for Hotel Controllers Aug 6, 2021

There is an enormous range of responsibilities for financial controls in today’s hotels and much of this depends on the type and size of hotel property. A facility that has gaming, banquet facilities and extensive public space has very different needs than a smaller rooms only hotel. This article shares the needed strategies for success.

"A Bakers Dozen" of Strategies for Successful Hotel Breakfast Service by John Hogan Aug 2, 2021

Breakfast can make the difference between a hotel and restaurant being viewed as a commodity or as an exceptional experience. This article offers 13 specific steps to success.

A Baker’s Dozen of Strategies for Hotel Human Resource Managers & Directors by John Hogan Jul 31, 2021

This column addresses the very core of all hotels. Without the proper planning and implementation of staffing and service, a hospitality business that interacts with guests 24 hours a day for 365 days a year has little chance for ongoing success.

KEYS TO SUCCESS™: A Baker's Dozen of Formulas to Thrive in the Service and Hospitality Industry! Jul 20, 2021

Over the last ten years, HospitalityEducators.com co-founder john Hogan has researched and found more than 100 proven strategies that have varying degrees of particular value to hospitality businesses. While some of them are not new, they all have specific benefits to anyone in the service industry. This Baker's Dozen introduces the first 13.

Saving Big Dollars in a "small-dollar" Budget Line Item of Your Hotel or Restaurant Chain Apr 2, 2021

Saving Big Dollars in a "small-dollar" Budget Line Item of Your Restaurant Chain

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By Steve Pierce

As a savvy chain hotel or restaurant operator, you are constantly looking for cost reductions that can be made to increase your profit margins. Because food costs typically represent 38-42 percent of your costs, that is where you will often expend most of your energy when evaluating cost reductions. But are you missing some of the operational cost reductions that can help improve your bottom line?

A Glossary of Sustainability and Green Hotel Terms and Phrases Apr 1, 2021

A Glossary of Sustainability and Green Hotel Terms and Phrases

A to Z Steps to Profits or How to Stop Your Hospitality Brands and Management from Stifling People and Strangling Profits Jan 4, 2021

A to Z Steps to Profits

How to Stop Your Hospitality Brands and Management from Stifling People and Strangling Profits
Workshop Focus: Hotel Profitability Ratios, Hotel Service, Hotel Operations

In a time of continuing uncertainty about global economies and government interventions, we all may feel a sense of frustration about things we cannot change. This program addresses 26 specific topics that we can successfully tackle in our every day hospitality businesses.

Keys to Success Agenda Points and Learning Results

An A to Z Guide to Keeping Talent and Boosting Profits in Hotels and Hospitality Businesses

Five Legal Problems and How to Avoid Them Jan 4, 2021: Five Legal Problems and How to Avoid Them

Small businesses (including hotels) are often sitting ducks for money-hunters seeking awards or settlements. Some may be real, others bogus, but all are costly in terms of time, legal fees, and payouts (if the business loses or settles). Knowing the problem spots can help you devise strategies for avoiding trouble.

Here are the key problem areas and some ideas for staying out of trouble.

Medical Lodging - A Niche in hotel positioning Feb 15, 2020: Medical lodging can be an image enhancer, a service, a financially self-supporting hotel profit center, and a marketing advantage for a medical center if properly planned, positioned, managed and supported. The medical centers of the 21st Century face challenges that differ tremendously from the past. Linking with the services of a properly positioned hotel can help balance the marvels of modern technology with the fiscal responsibility, design and "high touch" needs of their patients and their patient families.