Do the best you can
Amid the mayhem that that the coronavirus outbreak is wreaking on hospitality, and all the distress it is causing around the world, it has been heartening to see individuals and companies doing the best they can under the circumstances - being honest, being realistic and being responsible.
By George Sell
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“Of all the aparthotels, in all the towns, in all the world, they had to walk in to mine.”
York and Casablanca aren’t often mentioned in the same sentence, but Staycity CEO Tom Walsh can be forgiven for having a Humphrey Bogart moment when two Chinese guests, both staying at the company’s Paragon Street property, became the UK’s first confirmed cases of Coronavirus.
- By George Sell
Updated
Co-living making the headlines
Co-living is making the headlines across the hospitality and real estate industry, and it is certainly having an affect on the way players in the serviced apartment sector are thinking.
- By George Sell
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Supply and demand
Thanks to The Apartment Service for letting us have a sneak preview of the industry research within its GSAIR report. It’s encouraging to see that global inventory has risen by 14.75 per cent since the last report was published in June 2018.
- By George Sell
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The way ahead
So, after two-and-a-half years of the UK's political system - and by extension the country as a whole - feeling like it has been wading through treacle, there is at last some clear ground ahead, although there is still much division over whether it is heading in the right direction.
- By George Sell
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Corporate housing plays catch up
Finding and booking somewhere to stay for leisure - and increasingly business - travel has become easy and convenient with the rise of the OTAs, Airbnb and other platforms and the money they have invested in the technology necessary to make the booking process as frictionless as possible.
- By George Sell
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The first of many?
CWS Corporate Housing’s acquisition of one of its main competitors, Gables Corporate Accommodations, will see the formation of a seriously influential player in the US corporate housing sector.
- By George Sell
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Europe's booming co-living sector
It's been exciting to see the speed with which co-living has gone from being a rather misunderstood outlier in the hospitality sector to a mainstream asset class attracting increasing amounts of institutional investment.
- By George Sell
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