The 2021 AAHOA North Central Inaugural Charity Golf Tournament, held last week at Deer Creek Golf Course near Indianapolis, IN, was a resounding success! North Central Regional Director Bhavesh N. Patel and the Regional Ambassadors welcomed a packed field that enjoyed a beautiful day of competitive golf and networking and raised more than $63,000 for Make A Wish Indianapolis, MC Law Enforcement Memorial Association, and Night Angels. We have three golf events remaining on our 2021 schedule, so be sure to sign up for one near you and help us support worthwhile charities and ongoing COVID-19 relief efforts. 

 

We are pleased to announce the addition of new Silver Partner Docyt to the AAHOA family! Docyt, an accounting software company, offers AAHOA Members one AI-powered app that automates both income and expense workflows. It consolidates your financial data, continuously reconciles your accounting ledger, and delivers a real-time P&L and balance sheet. All you have to do is connect your bank accounts, and scan or email your receipts and bills. Docyt's machine learning will extract data to power workflows, categorize and reconcile bank and credit card transactions with your uploaded documents, and sync everything into your accounting ledger. And the more you use it, the smarter it gets. Welcome aboard, Docyt!

Are you looking for extraordinary talent but are not quite sure where to find it? The panel discussion in this AAHOA webcast, "Finding Talent: Partnering with Colleges and Universities," explored how employers utilize university and college hospitality programs to source great talent for their properties. Our esteemed panelists – Dr. Leonard Jackson, Michael A. Leven School of Management, Entrepreneurship and Hospitality; Nathalie St. Remy, Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management; Brian A. Black, School of Hospitality Management, Penn State University – shared the insight and expertise they’ve gained from their years as higher-education professionals. 

 

In a Morning Consult survey, a whopping 72 percent of respondents said concerns about cleanliness and sanitization affect their decision on whether to stay in a hotel. AAHOA has partnered with P&G Professional to create the AAHOA/P&G Professional’s Training in Hotel Sanitization and Cleanliness. This all-digital program covers what hoteliers need to know as it relates to the effective sanitization of your property. This program is completely FREE and is available to the entire hospitality industry. Download our infographic to learn more and sign up for this valuable training today!

Truist Securities (formerly SunTrust Robinson Humphrey) reports, “Last week’s RevPAR was up against a -62.6% comparable result in 2020 vs. -65.0% in the prior week’s 2-year run-rate. On a 2-year run-rate, RevPAR was down 16.6% vs. down 19.7% in the prior week’s 2-year run-rate and stronger than the -27% to -33% range we saw throughout much of the springtime. Upscale RevPAR was +131.7% and -26.6% over 2 years; Upper Midscale was +107.9% and -9.3% over 2 years. We will remain attentive to markets that continue to appear as outliers. There are sharp differences between the continued strength in warm-weather destinations like Miami, Orlando, and Tampa (despite an increasingly humid late spring), the increasingly strong Oahu Island (we assume a similar rebound for the other three major Hawaiian tourist islands), and weakness in slower-to-reopen markets such as Boston, Chicago, NYC, and San Francisco. San Francisco’s 48.9% occupancy last week was the worst of the Top 25 markets and even weekend occupancy did not reach 60%.”

Ecolab, the global industry leader in hotel cleaning and sanitization, offers preferred pricing to AAHOA Members. Save on laundry, housekeeping, kitchen, pool and spa chemical programs, and more! For more information, please visit the website, then contact Michael Pfister or call 952-852-0926 today!

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AAHOA Members receive a 10% discount on CBRE’s Hotel Horizons econometric forecast reports of 60 major markets in the United States. Click here to view additional benefits. Contact CBRE Client Services to claim your discount or call 855-223-1200.

While travel continues to increase, many hotel owners are being forced to do more with less thanks to a depleted workforce and the decreased ability to offer some of the same services that existed before the pandemic.

As many offices remain closed, business travel has yet to begin its recovery in earnest, and some experts are predicting that any rebound could be hampered thanks to newer technologies and an increasing comfort with virtual meetings.

According to recent research examining the behaviors of travelers around the world during the past 12 months, demand is beginning to rebound, but the recovery is still in its very early stages.