Mike Bederka
Shashi Group Shares Advice for First-Time Franchisees
Shashi Group’s technology-savvy founders, Dipesh Gupta and Manish Gupta, recognized early on the significant hotel supply-and-demand gap in Silicon Valley, says Narayanan Karu, vice president of finance and asset management. Top Fortune 500 technology...
Keys to Upgrading a Rough-Around-the-Edges Property
Chris Holland bought the worst hotel in the Florida Keys. He says so himself. “The place was on its knees,” Holland says of the then Blue Lagoon Motel in Key West. “Nothing was serviceable. The...
How to Get the Most From Your Hotel Fitness Room
Since the early ’90s and the days of step aerobics, spandex, and the Thighmaster, John Sarver has designed fitness rooms. As the director of design and development for Hotel Fitness, he specializes in hotel...
9 Ways to Revamp Your Fitness Programs
For Even Hotels, the marathon is complete. InterContinental Hotels Group’s first two much-anticipated wellness-centric properties, announced in 2013, opened in June.
“I’m excited and relieved,” says Kirk Kinsell, IHG’s president of the Americas.
Even Hotels...
How Best to Battle Against Cybercriminals
Hotels, the bad guys have their beady eyes on you.
“The more credit cards you have, the more interesting you are to someone,” says Suzanne Widup, senior analyst with Verizon’s RISK team. “You have data...