Andrew Cohan

In the resort real estate market over the past 20 years, many innovations in product design and business model structure have resulted in an assortment of solutions that better fit the needs of each ...

There are plenty of opinion pieces available every December that describe the next year’s industry trends in everything from hotel design to market segment performance, the year’s ”hot” travel ...

We all know that headlines are meant to sell a story or make daily news appear more dramatic in order to generate interest. However, headlines can be deceiving for another reason: Journalists often ...

Every hotel conference I have attended in recent years has addressed Airbnb and other alternative lodging facilities as disruptors. It’s a term in which the “victim” industry—in this case traditional ...

The mind and spirit components of contemporary wellness have recently been getting more attention and offering us many activities that are not strictly devoted to “physical” fitness.

We hear quite a bit about the economic justifications for sustainability (and of course about the environmental implications), but less so about the social “leg” of sustainability’s three-legged ...

In recent months, our South Florida consulting practice has conducted several market studies close to home in the West Broward market. West Broward is the suburban market west of Fort Lauderdale’s ...

The United Nations declared 2017 to be the Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development. However, as this year winds down, it seems that 2018 constituted more of a turning point in terms of ...

As someone who thinks about brands and franchise agreements quite frequently in my professional life, it’s not hard for the professional perspectives to interrupt my personal travels and hotel stays.

During the past few months, I took a detour from my regular calendar of hotel investment conferences and instead attended several events with themes of wellness and sustainability.

2017 has been the year of the disruptor.