Starwood Hotels & Resorts StayAt StayCity Serviced Apartments StayWell StayWell Steigenberger Sun International Sun Maris Hotels Sun Suites Hotels Sunroute Sunscape Resorts & Spas Sunstar Hotel Super Hotel SuperClubs Swallow Hotels Swiss Inn Swiss-Belhotel International Swiss-Garden T A Fisher Group Tauzia Hotels the b The Doyle Collection The Heritage Hotels Group The Indian Hotel Company The LaLit Group The Leela Palaces & Resorts The Marmara The Park Hotels The Peninsula Hotel The Pride Group The Three Corners The Triton TIME Hotels LLC Hilton Worldwide Hilton Worldwide Hipotels Hmg Hotel Management Hmi Hotel Group Homegate Home-towne Suites Hospes Hotels) Hospitality Manage Hoteis Othon Hoteis Slaviero Hotel 81 Management Hotel Alpha-one Hotel Des Gouverneurs Hotel Edda Hotel Equatorial Hotel Guldsmeden Hotel Husa Hotel Keihan Hotel Monterey Hotel Occidental Hotel Rh Hotel Tokyu Bizfort Hotel Trusty Hotel Wing Internationa Hoteles Estelar Hoteles H2 Hoteles Serena Hoteles Vista Hotels & Compagnie Hotels & Compagnie Hotetur Iberostar Hotels & Resorts Sponsored by #1 Rooms in supply Rooms under construction Rooms in development pipeline “Our goal is to serve our guests anywhere in the world, for any lodging need they have.” Chris Nassetta, President & CEO Hilton Worldwide is the Global Hospitality Leader1 Twelve distinct brands, 4,300 hotels and timeshare properties, more than 715,000 rooms in 94 countries and territories and unmatched as: • Number 1 in rooms in supply • Number 1 in rooms under construction • Number 1 in development pipeline • Number 1 in net unit growth (excluding portfolio acquisitions) The Hilton Performance Advantage: • Combinesthepowerofscale,access,reputation,andinnovation—deliveredbytheworld’s premier hospitality company. • Provides powerful resources across our portfolio of brands, delivering leading edge solutions toconsistentlydriveprofitsandefficienciesforourowners. • Creates a higher share of wallet, guest loyalty, and leading innovation, making it easier for on-site personnel to focus on delivering a superior guest experience. 1 Smith Travel Research, Global New Development Pipeline, December 2014; STR, Global Census, January 2015 04 big brands have big impacT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 05 06 INFOGRAPHIC Branded vs Non-Branded breakdown FEATURE The race to 1 million rooms heats up By Patrick Mayock, Editor-in-Chief Hotel Companies 08 10by Largest room count INFOGRAPHIC 11 12 INFOGRAPHIC percentage of global rooms by class & location FEATURE The workhorse brands By Patrick Mayock, Editor-in-Chief 14 15 18 INFOGRAPHIC top 5 brands - open INFOGRAPHIC top 5 brands - pipeline FEATURE Small brands seek profit without commoditization By Stephanie Ricca, Editor-At-Large 23 BRAND LAUNCH TIMELINE 27 BRAND FAMILY TREE ONLINE EXCLUSIVES ONLINE EXCLUSIVES THE 2015 BIG BRANDS REPORT 3 Big brands have big impact T he hotel brand race is on. As the global hotel industry enjoys strong performance coupled with favorable supply-and-demand ratios, brand companies are in fullon growth mode. For the giants, that means going after market share and net rooms growth in diverse locations. For smaller companies, that means taking measured steps to leverage current market conditions. The bottom line for both is the same: The branded hotel footprint is growing around the world. In this special report, Hotel News Now shares data (and the stories behind the data) that outline what brands are growing, how they’re doing it and where. Read what powerhouse company might be the first to reach the 1-million-guestrooms mark. Find out which specific brands are the real heavy lifters for their companies, shouldering the majority of growth. And get real-world growth strategy tips from “small-but-mighty” brands that are making expansion work on their own terms. Infographics, supported by data from STR, STR Global and the brand companies, showcase just how big the large hotel companies and brands are right now—and how big they plan to get in the future. While branded hotels around the world might be growing thanks to a handful of powerhouse companies, the overall footprint of hotels carrying a brand name—be it small or large—is growing as well. North America (with 67% of its hotels carrying a brand) leads the world in branded inventory, followed by the Asia/Pacific region, with 51% of its hotel inventory branded. Europe, South America and the Middle East/Africa still favor non-branded hotels, but that gap is narrowing as brand companies become increasingly open to alternate expansion strategies beyond the traditional franchise model. Go online to www.HotelNewsNow.com to find more coverage of global hotel brand trends, and sign up to receive our Daily Update newsletter. Find the articles and infographics in this report by clicking on the “Special Reports” section from the home page. Download a PDF of the full report, share articles with colleagues and keep the conversation going. Tweet using the hashtag #BigBrands2015. Thank you for reading! The HNN editorial staff Photo: Hilton Dallas/Plano Granite Park, Plano, Texas 4 A breakdown of branded hotels and non-branded hotels by region 67% 41% 51% 59% 44% 33% 41% 49% 56% 59% THE 2015 BIG BRANDS REPORT Sources: STR and STR Global. Data current as of 31 December 2014. 5 The race to 1 million rooms heats up By Patrick Mayock, Editor-in-Chief G LOBAL REPORT—InterContinental Hotels Group CEO Richard Solomons scoffed when first asked about it. Sitting in a suite at the JW Marriott at LA Live, the hustle and bustle of the Americas Lodging Investment Summit just a few floors below, he had more pressing matters to tackle. But there it was, the question looming large and heavy: Do you want to be the first hotel company to reach 1 million rooms? “I don’t care about it,” he said. “I know somebody’s gone out there and talked about it, and good for them.” That somebody was Marriott International, which fired the first shot across the bow with a 20 January news release that read: “Marriott expects to reach 1 million rooms “I don’t care about it,” said IHG’s Richard open or in development in 2015.” Solomons of crossing the 1-million-room mark. Hilton fired back six days later with a declaration that it was the “world’s largest Hilton has the most rooms combined either and fastest-growing hospitality company.” open or under development. Even Best Western International joined the fray, Size does matter in the era of asset light. when on 27 January the company announced its own record-breaking year. In an asset-light age where the industry’s big players generate an increasingly larger share of revenues from fees, one thing is clear: Size does matter. “We like to be on top, for sure. Arne Sorenson agreed with Global development is directly that premise. related to unit growth.” “We like to be on top, for sure,” said Marriott’s Arne Sorenson regarding the company’s position as one of the largest hotel companies in the world. Marriott’s president and CEO via email. HIGHLIGHTS CONTINUE READING ON PAGE 7 6 Sponsored by Hilton Worldwide RACE TO 1 MILLION 7 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 “Global development is directly related to unit growth, which is tied to our business model of managing and franchising hotels. The power of our portfolio allows us to meet the development strategies of individual owners and franchisees and propel distribution and growth.” As does Hilton’s Chris Nassetta. “Our large-scale, broad geographic and chain-scale distribution is a huge differentiator, and the loyalty effect of having the right brands in the right markets is undeniable,” the company’s president and CEO said via email. Solomons does too, with a caveat. For him, growth for the sake of growth is not the point. What matters most is delivering a relevant offering to guests. Do that, and expansion naturally follows. “We don’t talk about being big-hearted. We don’t talk about being enormous. We talk about being brandhearted, which is about delivering a product that consumers want,” he said. “If you get that right, you’ll grow the business.” The company turns away more deals than it signs in some regions, Solomons said. And the existing portfolio is constantly being combed to remove the bottom performers to ensure that delivery to guests. Wooing Wall Street and guests Talk of brand-heartedness doesn’t woo Wall Street, though. Case in point: the recent ousting of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide’s Frits van Paasschen, whose resignation came days after the company reported another quarter of lagging unit growth. “We have come to the conclusion that now CONTINUE READING ON PAGE 9 Part of Marriott International’s expansion plans call for more than doubling its current presence in the Asia/Pacific region. Shown here is the Courtyard by Marriott Seoul Pangyo in South Korea. (Photo: Marriott International) 7 10 Largest Hotel Companies by room count PIPELINE EXISTING Sources: Companies' Reported 2014 Data IF 100% OPEN HOTELS ROOMS HOTELS ROOMS HOTELS ROOMS 4,840 710,295 1,221 193,772 6,061 904,067 4,278 708,268 1,351 230,000 5,629 938,268 4,044 692,801 1,450 240,000 5,494 932,801 7,645 660,826 960 117,000 8,605 777,826 6,379 505,278 510 39,000 6,889 544,278 3,717 482,296 800 156,188 4,517 638,484 1,222 354,225 480 108,000 1,702 462,225 3,931 303,522 447 44,441 4,378 347,963 2,609 296,075 401 N/A 3,010 N/A 1,092 172,234 280 50,150 1,372 222,384 Notes: All data are current as of 31 December 2014. 1Numbers exclude residences and serviced apartments. 2Domestic pipeline only (company does not report international pipeline). 3Home Inns does not report rooms in the pipeline. RACE TO 1 MILLION 9 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 is the right time to turn to new leadership to drive execution of Starwood’s growth strategy,” said Bruce Duncan, chairman of the board, during a conference call. Starwood has some ground to gain. The company counts seventh on a list of global chains by rooms in operation combined with rooms in the pipeline as of 31 December 2014. Hilton quality growth,” said Wyndham’s president and CEO, Geoff Ballotti, via email. For him, that hotel tally is meaningful. It demonstrates the company’s commitment to growth, as does it Wyndham’s strong reception from owners and developers. “They’re looking to partner with an established, trusted organization in rooms in supply, rooms under construction and development pipeline, we’re doing just that. And we continue to be confident in the global strength of our 12 distinct brands that guests love and owners prefer.” Growth drivers The major chains employ a variety of tools as they chart global expansion. “I don’t care about it. I know somebody’s gone out there and talked about it, and good for them.” IHG’s Richard Solomons when asked if being the first to cross the 1-million-room mark matters. claims the No.1 spot with 938,268 rooms open or in the pipeline, followed by Marriott (932,801 rooms) and IHG (904,067 rooms). Wyndham Hotel Group comes in at a distant fourth with 777,826 rooms, despite the company having the largest number of hotels open with 7,645. “We’re extremely proud of our portfolio and the growth we’ve experienced both here in the U.S. and internationally—and our goal is to continue that THE 2015 BIG BRANDS REPORT that will drive guests through their doors and offer the resources and support needed to succeed,” Ballotti said. Guests see size similarly, Nassetta explained. System size conveys comfort, the promise that a preferred brand (or brand family) will be represented in any market they visit. “Our goal is to serve any guest anywhere in the world, for any lodging need they have,” he said. “As the industry leader Management contracts, franchising and (in the right situation) even leases contribute to growth. So, too, do portfolio acquisitions. Marriott in particular is executing on the latter. The company in recent years acquired Spain’s AC Hotels (2010), the United Statesbased Gaylord Hotels (2012) and South Africa’s Protea Hotel Group (2013). Most recently the CONTINUE READING ON PAGE 10 9 10 RACE TO 1 MILLION CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 company brought Torontobased Delta Hotels and Resorts into the fold, expanding Marriott’s footprint in Canada by 38 hotels and more than 10,000 rooms. Wyndham, too, has pulled the portfolioacquisition trigger, most recently in February when the company announced the $57-million buy of Dolce Hotels and Resorts. The executive team at Hilton prefers organic unit growth, Nassetta said. “In 2014, we continued to lead the industry in net unit growth excluding portfolio acquisitions,” he said. “Putting all that together with our asset-light strategy and a tremendous amount of hard work from our team members has allowed us to grow in good times and bad.” Team approach Each executive spoke of the importance of their developments teams, particularly as it relates to expansion in new and emerging markets around the world. 10 IHG also has approached development from a global perspective—a strategy largely bred of the company’s United Kingdom home base offering fewer opportunities for growth than, say, the U.S., Solomons explained. “Because our home market is relatively small, we have to think about the other markets. What it leads to is strong presence on the ground in each of those markets,” he said. In China, for instance, IHG has a standalone team that reports directly to the CEO. That approach has “enabled us to understand our local markets better,” Solomons said. At Wyndham, more than half the development pipeline is outside the U.S., and nearly 70% of that is new construction, Ballotti said. “We’ve focused on expanding our presence in markets where the demand is ripe for hotel development—like China, India, Peru, Brazil and parts of the Middle East,” he said. “We have incredible, motivated development teams around theworld dedicated to connecting us with likeminded partners and ensuring that our brands expand in the markets where the brand and our franchisees are best positioned for success.” Growth on a global scale is not possible without shared leadership, Nassetta said. “Success is also dependent on distributing leadership by giving people accountability and responsibility to make decisions at the point of most information,” he said. Sorenson described a similar situation with his development team. “They know they have my OK to be innovative and to try new things that will help them and the company succeed,” he said. Whether that leads Marriott or Hilton or IHG or Wyndham over that 1-million-room mark first, only time will tell. UP NEXT: THE WORKHORSE BRANDS Sponsored by Hilton Worldwide Percentage of global rooms by class and location The class for a chain-affiliated hotel is the same as its chain scale. An independent hotel is assigned a class based on its ADR, relative to that of the chain hotels in its geographic proximity. (Source: Hotel News Now’s “Hotel Industry Terms to Know”) Location segments are hotel classifications driven by physical location. (Source: Hotel News Now’s “Hotel Industry Terms to Know”) Sources: STR and STR Global. Data current as of 31 December 2014. 11 The workhorse brands By Patrick Mayock, Editor-in-Chief G LOBAL REPORT—All brands are not created equal. In the race toward global expansion, some clearly shoulder a larger share of the weight. They are the workhorses, those tried-andtrue offerings that resonate with travelers, developers and investors alike. Holiday Inn Express is the heaviest hitter. Its 228,514 rooms were the most open among any brand as of 31 December 2014, according to census data from STR, parent company of Hotel News Now. The uppermidscale brand also claimed the largest share of the global active pipeline (4.1%) with 56,190 rooms. Rounding out the top five of brands with the most rooms under contract were: 2. Hilton Hotels & Resorts: 47,929 rooms (3.5% of the global pipeline) 3. Holiday Inn: 44,607 rooms (3.3%) 4. Hampton: 40,107 rooms (2.9%) 5. Hilton Garden Inn: 37,523 rooms (2.8%) Courtyard by Marriott, with 2.6% of the global pipeline, is another brand heavyweight. That Holiday Inn Express and Holiday Inn occupy such high spots on that list is no surprise, according to Joel Eisemann, HIGHLIGHTS Holiday Inn Express has the most rooms open and under contract. The rooms with the largest share of the pipeline primarily fall in the focused-service segment. Full-service brands typically lead expansion into previously untapped regions. CONTINUE READING ON PAGE 14 12 Sponsored by Hilton Worldwide Photo: Holiday Inn Express Chicago Magnificent Mile THE 2015 BIG BRANDS REPORT 13 14 WORKHORSE BRANDS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 chief development officer of the Americas with parent company InterContinental Hotels Group. The company’s development team exhausts a lot of time and energy to ensure their continued growth, he said. What’s more, there’s a clear appetite for such midtier offerings from various customer subsets, he said. “One of our customers is the developer. We need to have brands that resonate with the developer and makes sense from a development perspective—that they’re easy to build, that we’re thinking about the cost to build a hotel, and the kind of return an owner would get,” Eisemann said. “And then of course we spend a significant amount of time thinking about the traveler.” A large segment of those travelers are looking for affordable, efficient, no-fuss offerings that have become the hallmark of the limited-service segment. Hampton Inn and Hilton Garden Inn, like Holiday Inn Express, are among several standouts in that space. With 198,848 rooms open, Hampton is the fourth largest brand in the world. CONTINUE READING ON PAGE 15 14 Sponsored by Hilton Worldwide WORKHORSE BRANDS 15 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14 The popularity of such brands makes their absence conspicuous in much of the emerging world, where burgeoning middle classes are clamoring for accommodations that fit the brand landscape and, more importantly, their budgets, explained Tony Capuano, executive VP and global chief development officer at Marriott International. In India, for instance, the growing middle class has led to “stratospheric growth in the volume of domestic business travelers,” he said. Courtyard could fit that need; Marriott’s Fairfield Inn and Suites even more so. “Local partners see growth of the domestic business travel market, and Fairfield is a perfect fit for that,” he said. “It’s the consumer trends that start us down the path of whether some of our platforms have applications in those countries.” 3.5% Still focused on full service The recent explosion of the select-service segment, particularly in North America, belies the viability of full-service expansion CONTINUE READING ON PAGE 16 THE 2015 BIG BRANDS REPORT 15 16 WORKHORSE BRANDS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 throughout previously untapped regions such as the Asia/Pacific, sources said. Break down Hilton Worldwide Holdings’ total pipeline by room count, and the majority falls under the likes of Hampton, Hilton Garden Inn and other select-service flags. But if you analyze those same projects by revenuegenerating potential, the ratio flips in favor of full- Photo: Hilton Istanbul Bosphorus 16 service, explained Ian Carter, Hilton’s president of development, architecture and construction. That promise of more profitability has kept the Hilton Hotels & Resorts iron hot, he said. Case in point: The brand has the second most rooms under contract of any tracked by STR. But executing on fullservice growth can prove challenging in mature countries such as the U.S., where most major cities are saturated with the likes of Hilton, Marriott and InterContinental flags. “It is harder for new development. That’s across all the various brand companies. You’re not seeing as many new fullservice hotels being built in the United States and Canada,” Eisemann said. That diverts expansion plans elsewhere, primarily to developing countries where the first demand for travel accommodation typically materializes at the higher end of the market. Most of the rooms in the Hilton Hotels brand portfolio are slated for outside the company’s domestic base in the U.S., for example. “From the investor perspective, our pipeline reflects a more balanced derivation of (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) by geography,” Carter said. “You’re not simply relying on the U.S. being healthy for profits in the longer term. When all of that pipeline is built out, a lot more will be derived from outside the U.S.” Pursuing full-service growth has another advantage: It paves the way for select-service brands to follow. Wyndham Hotel Group follows that model, establishing beachheads with its Ramada Worldwide and Wyndham Hotels and Resorts brands. CONTINUE READING ON PAGE 17 Sponsored by Hilton Worldwide WORKHORSE BRANDS 17 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16 “If we lead with Ramada and Wyndham and try to get a good distribution of those products, then we can bring (Tryp by Wyndham) or Wyndham Garden,” said Bob Loewen, the company’s COO. Soft brands the next surge? While not necessarily the workhorses of their parent companies’ respective brand portfolios, soft brands and collections will continue to play a larger role in expansions, sources said. “The opportunity obviously is to establish our international brands (particularly in Europe), but there’s also a massive opportunity where we partner with owners with underperforming assets. They have classic hotels locally, but they could benefit from our commercial engine,” Carter said. That’s why Hilton in 2014 launched Curio – A Collection by Hilton. The umbrella lets owners maintain the unique characteristic and feel of their hotels while giving Hilton entry into previously untapped markets—with one-ofa-kind hotels to boot. The fledgling Curio counted five hotels at press time. Much larger in scale is Marriott’s Autograph Collection, which launched four years ago and numbers 76 properties as of press time. “We’re racing toward 100,” Capuano said. “It’s been a really fascinating platform for us.” UP NEXT: SMALL BRANDS SEEK PROFIT WITHOUT COMMODITIZATION China, along with India, Peru and other non-U.S. markets are top on the list of places Wyndham Hotel Group President and CEO Geoff Ballotti said the company is targeting for expansion. Shown here is Wyndham Super8 Xian Xidajie-Xian, China (Photo: Wyndham Hotel Group) 17 Small brands seek profit without commoditization By Stephanie Ricca, Editor-At-Large HIGHLIGHTS “Small-but-mighty” brands define growth beyond net room count. Each new brand location must offer an ROI to owners. Benefits to remaining small include flexibility and better control over reputation management. Photo: The Ace Hotel London Shoreditch 18 G LOBAL REPORT—“Bigger” doesn’t always have to lead to “biggest” when it comes to a hotel franchise company’s global footprint. But while total world domination in guestroom numbers isn’t necessarily every hotel brand’s goal, successful smaller companies know what factors comprise their definition of “growth” and they stick to them. Of the 991 hotel chains in STR’s latest census report, 86% have fewer than 10,000 guestrooms in their global portfolio. More than half (55%) of the hotel chains on the list have fewer than 2,000 guestrooms in their global portfolio. Crunch the numbers, and it’s clear the majority of hotel chain parent companies are not among the elite few that will reach the 1-million-guestroom mark anytime soon. For those companies, growth is not measured strictly by net room count, but rather through a more holistic approach CONTINUE READING ON PAGE 19 Sponsored by Hilton Worldwide SMALL BRANDS 19 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18 that often gives more importance to factors such as return on investment and control over brand reputation at all levels. Those companies that fit more into the “smallbut-mighty” category are finding that today’s hotel development and operating environment is one that can support different growth models. in a measured way that offers economies of scale but that keeps within the parent company’s reach. Some companies “may aspire to the growth of Starbucks,” said RLHC Senior VP and Chief Franchise Officer Brian Quinn, “but in that pursuit it’s easy to tip over to commoditization that detracts from your core product.” Gaining critical mass played a big role in the expansion of the Californiabred Joie de Vivre boutique hotel brand, which earlier this year made the leap CONTINUE READING ON PAGE 20 Pipeline matters Make no mistake, however: Size does matter. One of the challenges smaller companies have is reaching critical mass quickly, particularly with new brand launches. Red Lion Hotels Corporation, which launched lifestyle brand Hotel RL last year, definitely has unit growth as part of its goal. CEO Greg Mount set a short-term goal of 100 additional hotels across the company’s entire brand portfolio (which currently stands at 55 hotels open) within 100 weeks. Is the company on track to make this 100week goal a reality? “We’ll lift up and do whatever we have to do to make this happen,” Mount said recently. “We’re already ahead of pace this year.” Red Lion executives know that for them, growth must happen, but THE 2015 BIG BRANDS REPORT Properties open: 55 Guestrooms open: 12,122 As of 1 March 2015 Properties open: 24 Guestrooms open: 3,478 As of 1 March 2015 19 20 SMALL BRANDS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 19 to the East Coast for the first time, announcing two New York City hotels and one in Miami Beach. That step, which will bring the brand to 29 properties, is part of a controlled growth strategy, according to JDV parent company Commune Hotels + Resorts’ CEO Niki Leondakis. Commune is the parent company of JDV, Thompson Hotels, Alila and Tommie—all lifestyle- Leondakis said. “We learned that our customer would stay at JDV hotels and they were looking for them, but they weren’t there so they had to make alternate choices.” Leondakis said controlled growth is the guiding force that helps the company balance where its guests want to be with the company’s focus on keeping every development worry about excessive encroachment or overlap. “Because we are relatively small, we don’t have to try to have six Fairmonts in London,” said Martin Kandrac, executive VP of real estate & development for FRHI Hotels & Resorts (parent company for the Fairmont, Raffles and Swissôtel brands). “That’s the Starbucks model. We generally have one “In every meeting we sit down in, we’re talking about our ability to keep things simple, our ability to be nimble and our ability to innovate.” Red Lion Hotels Corporation’s Greg Mount on the flexibility inherent in being a smaller brand. centric boutique brands. When Commune formed in 2011, its core brands were split geographically—JDV on the U.S. West Coast and Thompson Hotels in the East. JDV’s growth plan came about as the company learned its core guests were looking for properties where they traveled and not always finding them. “JDV guests are about lifestyle and attitude,” 20 and hotel unique. “We’re focused on development where our guests travel and want us to be … but we want to be in markets that make sense for us,” she said. “We have opportunities to go a lot of places that don’t make sense for us and we turn them down.” While growth is on the agenda for smaller brands, most see it as advantageous that their owners don’t need to property in each market, maybe two if there are distinct submarkets.” Return on investment Many such “small-butmighty” hotel brands credit success to their commitment to growing within their means. “It’s also about making sure the economics (of opening a hotel) are right for the owners,” RLHC’s CONTINUE READING ON PAGE 21 Sponsored by Hilton Worldwide SMALL BRANDS 21 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 20 Mount said. That means focusing on the terms of franchise deals “so we recognize it’s a real estate deal for (our owners) and they need to monetize it.” With the hotel industry cycle (particularly in the U.S.) at a point that favors transactions, owners are tuned in to the value brands bring to the table, but they don’t follow brands blindly if they don’t believe the “There’s no value in having an association with a large brand if they can’t execute well.” Brad Wilson, president of the seven-property Ace Hotel brand, said the company (which is based in Portland, Oregon, and New York City) couldn’t grow without a clear model in place—even if that growth is measured. “Ours is very much an independent business Group),” he said. “We don’t need to be the world’s largest hotel company. It’s not in our master plan.” The financing picture One benefit to being small at this point in the hotel cycle is that financiers are more knowledgeable and open to striking deals outside “the big 10” franchisor companies than ever before, sources said. “We’re not trying to put the most dots on the map. We want the best places. It’s not a race to meet a quota; we’re not trying to be the biggest brand out there.” Commune Hotels + Resorts’ Niki Leondakis on controlled growth. affiliation is a good one. “We’re involved with the brands we’re with because they can execute the business, as simple as that,” said Gerry Chase, president and COO of New Castle Hotels and Resorts, an ownership, management and development company with a mix of 25 branded and independent hotels comprising 4,388 guestrooms in its portfolio. unit model, and we have a very strong structure (in) reservations and revenue management,” Wilson said. “It’s a solid structure that we’ve developed over the last couple of years to manage our hotels.” He said the company is equipped to manage from 15 to 20 hotels, not 1,500 or 2,000. “We don’t have a desire to be (InterContinental Hotels “The lending community has absolutely become more receptive to our segment, which has made a big difference,” Leondakis said. “The development community too has migrated to (smaller boutique brands) because they see the flexibility and they see how we can manage through downturns and do the right thing for each individual situation.” CONTINUE READING ON PAGE 22 THE 2015 BIG BRANDS REPORT 21 22 SMALL BRANDS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21 Control over reputation, systems At the end of the day, factors such as reputation control and the ability to be flexible when it comes to implementing change rank at the top of the list for executives of smaller hotel brands. “We’re not trying to put the most dots on the map,” Leondakis said. “We want the best places. It’s not a race to meet a quota; we’re not trying to be the biggest brand out there.” The boutique nature of JDV is the driving force behind Leondakis’ words, but the sentiment rings true for non-boutique small brands as well. “In every meeting we sit down in, we’re talking about our ability to keep things simple, our ability to be nimble and our ability to innovate,” Mount said of RLHC. That flexibility, he said, has allowed the company to control its internal systems for everything from revenue management to point of sale—something he said could never happen quickly within a large, legacy brand. Properties open: 7 Guestrooms open: 1,058 As of 1 March 2015 Properties open: 113 Guestrooms open: 42,577 As of 1 January 2015 HNN’s Patrick Mayock contributed to this report. UP NEXT: BRAND LAUNCH TIMELINE 22 Sponsored by Hilton Worldwide BRAND LAUNCH TIMELINE This timeline shows some key global brands and their parent companies that have been announced since Hotel News Now launched in 2008. 2008 HOTEL NEWS NOW LAUNCHES (17 September 2008) 2009 HOME2 SUITES BY HILTON (Hilton Worldwide Holdings) RADISSON BLU (Carlson) LEONARDO BOUTIQUE HOTEL (Fattal Hotels) LEONARDO ROYAL HOTEL (Fattal Hotels) AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION (Marriott International) Footnotes: This list is organized by when hotel brands were first announced to the industry; the list is not organized by opening date. This list is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all global brand launches since 2008. Hotel News Now will maintain this list moving forward. If you would like to add a brand to the timeline, please contact editor at large Stephanie Ricca at sricca@hotelnewsnow.com. Sources: STR, STR Global, company data. 23 2010 BEST WESTERN PLUS BEST WESTERN PREMIER (Best Western International) (Best Western International) VIVANTA BY TAJ B HOTELS (The Indian Hotel Company) (B Hotels) EDITION (Marriott International) VIRGIN HOTELS (Virgin Group) 2011 LEMON TREE PREMIER NIGHT HOTELS (Lemon Tree) (Hampshire Hotels & Resorts) DREAM HOTELS (Hampshire Hotels & Resorts) IBIS BUDGET IBIS STYLES (Accor) (Accor) SOFITEL SO SOFITEL LEGEND (Accor) (Accor) HYATT HOUSE (Hyatt Hotels Corporation) 24 PUBLIC (Ian Schrager Hotel Company) Footnotes: This list is organized by when hotel brands were first announced to the industry; the list is not organized by opening date. This list is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all global brand launches since 2008. Hotel News Now will maintain this list moving forward. If you would like to add a brand to the timeline, please contact editor at large Stephanie Ricca at sricca@hotelnewsnow.com. Sources: STR, STR Global, company data. 2012 REGENTA (Royal Orchid) MEI JUE (Accor) EVEN HOTELS (InterContinental Hotels Group) HUALUXE HOTELS AND RESORTS (InterContinental Hotels Group) WANDA REIGN (Wanda Hotels & Resorts) WANDA REALM (Wanda Hotels & Resorts) WANDA VISTA (Wanda Hotels & Resorts) SONESTA ES SUITES (Sonesta ES Suites) 2013 MOXY HOTELS THE LEO HOTEL COLLECTION (Marriott International) (Red Lion Hotels Corporation) TOMMIE (Commune Hotels and Resorts) BEST WESTERN PLUS EXECUTIVE RESIDENCY METROPOLO JINJIANG HOTELS (Best Western International) (Jin Jiang Hotels) HYATT ZIVA (Hyatt Hotels Corporation) HYATT ZILARA (Hyatt Hotels Corporation) DUSIT DEVARANA (Dusit Thani Public Company Ltd) Footnotes: This list is organized by when hotel brands were first announced to the industry; the list is not organized by opening date. This list is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all global brand launches since 2008. Hotel News Now will maintain this list moving forward. If you would like to add a brand to the timeline, please contact editor at large Stephanie Ricca at sricca@hotelnewsnow.com. Sources: STR, STR Global, company data. 25 2014 QUORVUS COLLECTION RADISSON RED (Carlson) (Carlson) CURIO - A COLLECTION BY HILTON NH COLLECTION (Hilton Worldwide Holdings) (NH Hotels) HOTEL JEN VENU (Shangri-La International Hotel Management) (Jumeirah Group) BW PREMIER COLLECTION (Best Western International) VIB (Best Western International) CANOPY BY HILTON GRADUATE HOTELS (Hilton Worldwide Holdings) (AJ Capital Partners) HUB BY PREMIER INN (Whitbread Hotel Company) HOTEL RL (Red Lion Hotels Corporation) 2015 AUGUSTUS HOTELS & RESORTS TIME HOTELS (Hampshire Hotels & Resorts) (Hampshire Hotels & Resorts) HYATT CENTRIC UNSCRIPTED HOTELS (Hyatt Hotels Corporation) (Hampshire Hotels & Resorts) PROPER HOTELS (Proper Hospitality) CORDIS HOTELS AND RESORTS (Langham Hospitality Group) JAZ IN THE CITY (Steigenberger Hotels and Resorts) OE COLLECTION (Loews) 26 Footnotes: This list is organized by when hotel brands were first announced to the industry; the list is not organized by opening date. This list is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all global brand launches since 2008. Hotel News Now will maintain this list moving forward. If you would like to add a brand to the timeline, please contact editor at large Stephanie Ricca at sricca@hotelnewsnow.com. Sources: STR, STR Global, company data. Family Tree: Global hotel companies and their brands This family tree is organized by parent company and lists hotel brands that had properties open as of 31 December 2014. 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