Recessions, like the one we are currently witnessing, are a fact of business life.  There will be a wide gap between winners and losers in this recession and the right mix of decisive actions will reap rewards long after the recession ends.

Hotels that are able to identify the right costs to cut also have an understanding and a strategy to divert resources to activities that create value.

Hotels that invest in technologies that help them to manage and gain insight into their key value drivers will outperform hotels that do not.

Hotels that reach out to and listen to their customers will be able to create new products and services that are best suited for customers under both current and future economic conditions.

Hotels that can walk away from bad business and avoid government intervention will come out as clear winners in the “new normal”.