At the Independence Day holiday break, the Hotel Investment Today team reviews its progress and welcomes your input to create an even better product to serve your professional needs.
GLOBAL REPORT – Hotel Investment Today is now about six months old and with
the big summer Independence Day holiday at hand it seems like the right moment
to take stock and consider our progress. In our July 6 newsletter, we also present some editorial
highlights since our launch in January.
First and foremost, we welcome your feedback. How are we
doing? What content do you like and what types of stories do you want to see
more often? Please reach out to me directly at jweinstein@burba,com. I’d love to hear
from you.
Also, if you have not subscribed to the site and newsletter, I urge you to do so here.
We have taken a tack to focus on hotel finance, M&A and
development to best serve the investment community. Our tag line states,
“You’re in the business of earning ROI. We’re in the business of covering it.”
How do you feel about our approach and how might we better define it to help meet
your objectives?
We make editorial decisions based on experience and solid news judgment, and nothing else. We will continue to operate by these tenets because quality content based on interpreting the challenges and opportunities of the day is what matters most to all of us and, most importantly, you.
Jeff Weinstein
From my perspective, we are off to a good start, sticking to
our knitting, reporting and writing honestly, and with context and authority,
taking advantage of more than 100 years of hospitality editorial experience
between myself, Mary Scoviak and Jeff Higley, as well as the knowledge and relationships of The BHN Group Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Zink.
We are working hard to write with integrity, separating
church and state, and making sure any content that comes from our sponsors is
marked as such. The sales and marketing team works with all of our sponsors to
encourage them to create content that has value for all of our readers and goes
beyond a business pitch, and so far everyone agrees that is working. We make
editorial decisions based on experience and solid news judgment, and nothing
else. We will continue to operate by these tenets because quality content based
on interpreting the challenges and opportunities of the day is what matters
most to all of us and, most importantly, you.
Honestly, you can help us report even more robustly by trusting
us and offering more access. Share more of your insights and takeaways, and give
us honest interpretations about the strategies you are employing, as well as
the news of the day.
On a more personal note, I am very happy working as editor
in chief of Hotel Investment Today because I am working with colleagues I
respect and care about, who work honestly and openly. It makes coming to work
each morning something I truly appreciate because I know it is not always easy
to feel this inspired about the professional lives we lead. I am also happy to
keep interacting with all of you who live and breathe hospitality. How lucky we
all are to work in a space where our true calling is to provide shelter and
sustenance. This is a worthy business – of that, I am sure.
Thank you for sharing your time with us and thank you for
your support as we continue to make Hotel Investment Today a better product
with each passing day.
I’ll see you at the next investment conference and I hope to
speak with you even sooner.