HAMA Releases Spring 2023 Industry Outlook Survey Results

SAN FRANCISCO– The Hospitality Asset Managers Association(HAMA) launched the outcomes of its Spring 2023 Industry Outlook Survey. The semi-annual report gathered the viewpoints, experiences, and forecasts of more than 80 hotel possession supervisors worrying the present state of the hospitality market with a specific concentrate on 2023 projections and pre-COVID contrasts.

The outcomes of the study, which were performed prior to HAMA’s 2023 Annual Spring Meeting that was held Thursday, April 20, 2023, in San Francisco, California, were transmitted deal with a Q&A sector at the end. In overall, 82 possession supervisors, consisting of around one-third of HAMA subscription, took part in the study.

” The bulk of our subscription is anticipating a favorable year, with expectations high for RevPAR and GOP to go beyond both budget plans and 2019 levels,” stated Derrick Yee, CHAM, HAMA president and Placemakr vice president of property management. “Though labor, boost, and need are concerns to think about, in general, our members appear extremely positive concerning the market’s near-term future. A frustrating bulk thinks the market will go back to 2019 levels throughout the board within the next one to 3 years, and it appears like the acquisition market will continue to warm up as the year advances. Now stays a great time to be a hotelier.”

Highlighted outcomes consist of:

• The leading 3 problems worrying hotel possession supervisors are wage boosts (65 percent), labor schedule (57 percent), and need (52 percent). This mirrors issues from the 2022 Fall Conference when property supervisors’ issues were labor schedule (8676 percent), labor expenses (8529 percent), and need (4264 percent).
• Two-thirds (66 percent) of members think the U.S. economy either currently remains in or will slip into an economic crisis in 2023.
• Seventy-four percent (74 percent) of subscription actively are pursuing acquisitions.
• More than half (59 percent) of members neither have nor are pondering a management or brand name modification.