F&B, M&E, Ancillary Revenue

Before the website and marketing plan, before listing your meeting space on Cvent, before your sales team responds to that first lead, someone, somewhere, decided on the product. The product?

EHL Success Stories: Start-Up Edition is a series to show support to our EHL Family and, more specifically, our hard-working AEHL entrepreneurs. This project aims to showcase EHL's entrepreneur mindsets, support new and upcoming ideas and businesses. While overcoming a challenging time for all companies, these Start Ups prove that resilience and hard work can overcome any problem.

Taken from the French verb to melt - fondre - fondue is an easy to prepare and highly convivial cheese treat. Named Switzerland’s national dish in the 1930s by the Swiss Cheese Union in order to increase consumption of the large amounts of cheese that the country was producing, fondue has become an icon of 'Swissness' at home and abroad.

Innovation is the process of creating value through the implementation of new ideas. Crises generate the exact opposite outcome: tremendous value destruction. Innovation, therefore, seems particularly well-suited to act as a powerful countervailing force in times of hardship. The process of innovation under stable conditions, while not straightforward, is relatively well understood.

Remote work is here to stay. Even if companies start to require teams to return to a central office following full population vaccination, the benefits of allowing for flexible work conditions are too good to ignore. For the employer it can mean vastly reduced rental costs, while for the employee it means less time spent commuting and the ability to handle life’s other responsibilities more adeptly like young kids. But the drawback is the monotony of working, eating, relaxing and sleeping in the same place.

After one year since the beginning of the pandemic, the time has come to take stock of the situation concerning the impact on different business sectors. COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the entire economy with some sectors being more harshly hit than others.

Right now, there are so many advances taking place in the realm of technology that it's hard to keep up. Specific to owners and senior executives, asking 'what if' is always fun for how these developments can help evolve the hotel in the pursuit of greater occupancy and growing ADR.

Much of the hotel technology stack functionality – property management, revenue management, distribution – has evolved over decades into what it is today. Even online distribution, which didn’t surface until after the turn of the century when guests first started booking their trips online – has been decades in the making.

Hotel History: Ocean House at Watch Hill (49 rooms) : Ocean House is a large, Victorian-style waterfront hotel originally constructed in 1868 on Bluff Avenue in the Watch Hill historic district of Westerly, Rhode Island.

As the school year winds down in many states, Memorial Day starts the summer vacation season in the United States.