The San Antonio Business Journal‘s W. Scott Bailey consulted with Source Strategies founder Bruce Walker to analyze the changes in the San Antonio and Austin hotel markets over the last two years. The article “SA enters 2017 playing catch up with Austin in heated hotel race” starts with some historical context on the Texas hotel […]
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Two Business Journal articles offer competing perspectives on the difference between two key barometers of Texas Hotel Markets, hotel market performance in San Antonio and Austin. Naturally, both publications site Source Strategies, the leader in Texas hospitality consulting, for their figures. The San Antonio Business Journal notes how the city’s industry is lagging behind Austin
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Source Strategies recently completed a financial feasibility study, at the request of the City of Lago Vista, identifying a very promising location for a new hotel. Lago Vista is one of the last towns in the Austin Metro area without a hotel. In July, Lago Vista city staff reached out to Source Strategies, who had
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Backed by lodging industry intelligence from Source Strategies, The Longview News-Journal reports today that area hotel revenues and occupancy dropped in the third quarter. Author Ken Hedler reports: Longview metro area revenues were down 6.7 percent while occupancy rates fell 8.4 percent in the three months ending Sept. 30, according to the latest Hotel Brand
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Complete Geographic Breakdowns of Hotel Performance Statewide Source Strategies has been producing these reports for the State of Texas detailing the Geographic Results of All Texas Markets for years and now these reports are are being made available directly to you. These Texas Hotel Markets reports are broken down by City, by County and by
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The Wall Street Journal recently featured an article about the spread of boutique hotels to smaller markets in the US. In “Boutique Hotels Expand to Smaller American Towns“, writer Esther Fung notes that: Hotelier Ian Schrager introduced the concept of the boutique hotel in the 1980s, and the category, also known as lifestyle brands, eventually
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The San Antonio Express-News featured an article yesterday titled Study: S.A. tourism had $13.6 billion impact in ’15. In the article, EN writer Joshua Fechter discusses the economic impact of the hospitality industry in San Antonio and the city’s transition from a city-run Convention and Visitors Bureau to a public-private nonprofit called Visit San Antonio.
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The analysts from Source Strategies demystify the Business Value of Hotel Brands in this revealing article from The Appraisal Journal: New Option in Hotel Appraisals: Quantifying the Revenue Enhancement Value of Hotel Brands. This tailored study of the Business Value of any specific branded hotel, authored by A. Scruggs Love, Bruce Walker and Douglas Sutton.
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