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Let's Face It - The Economy Sucks - By Dr. Rick Johnson
Leadership is brutally tested by economic challenge. If you aren't prepared, if you have no plan, things can become extremely difficult. Planning carefully prevents knee jerk decisions. The point is this, if you haven't done any planning beyond what you are going to do for lunch - Now is the time to start.
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What Happens to Property Taxes in a Down Market? - By Raymond Gray, Esq.
The ongoing financial crisis has had a tremendous impact on the commercial real estate market and the downturn is abundantly evident in the hotel market. During the past three years, purchase prices for hotels have been at an all time high. These high purchase prices led tax assessors to use extremely low capitalization rates in their valuation models. This enabled the assessors to match the capitalization rates implied from high purchase prices.
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Food & Beverage - Ways to Find & Spread Good News About Your Place - By Ken Burgin
You may not be in the event or entertainment industry, but there are many ways to show your business is alive, not in a coma (like the competitors).
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Lessons from the Field - A Bakers Dozen of Strategies for Hotel Restaurant Managers - By John Hogan
The recent column, A Bakers Dozen of Strategies for Hotel Food and Beverage Directors, generated a good deal of positive feedback and comments from operators and managers, as all of us in the industry consistently work to regain our confidences and margins resulting from the negative impact of the gas price hike crisis this summer and the current global economic credit emergency.
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National Restaurant Association's Conserve
The National Restaurant Association's Conserve: Solutions for Sustainability initiative aims to help and encourage restaurant operators to increase their environmental efforts while preserving their bottom lines. The Web site contains tips, tools and resources to fit any restaurant operations and budget--in fact, many ideas are low-cost or no-cost measures.
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Concord Hospitality Enterprises
Concord Hospitality Enterprises Company is an award winning hotel management and development company. Through the combined efforts of over 2,600 hard working and focused associates, Concord offers a unique blend of entrepreneurship, seasoned experience, innovation and technical excellence. These elements create a company equipped to produce above-standard returns, market sustainability and a partnership well worth investing in.
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FEATURED MAGAZINE |
CFO Each issue of CFO provides 450,000 senior financial executives with the sophisticated analysis and innovative ideas they need to add value to their organizations.
From refinancing to reengineering, from insurance to information systems, CFO takes the latest financial thinking and shows how it is being implemented in the country's most innovative organizations. In the increasingly competitive arena of corporate finance, CFO keeps its readers on the inside track.
Frequency: Monthly
Geographic Eligibility: USA
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Sustainable Tourism : A Marketing Perspective
* First book on the subject from a marketing perspective * How to achieve sustainability in practice * International focus with case studies from South Africa, Australia and Great Britain * Focus on good practice at selected tourism destinations Looking ahead to the 21st century, Sustainable Tourism explains the current thinking process that underlies the emerging international principles of more sustainable development in travel and tourism.
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