The real estate market in San Diego and nationally has been in recession. The cost of money, as well as the other factors of production – land, labor, and materials—have been prohibitively expensive.
Hotel Development
Top 10 Trends for the Hospitality Industry in 2025
While we wait for all market segments to return to 2019 levels, we are seeing shifts in the hospitality industry. These 10 trends will shape the next year of guest expectations, technological advancements, and business growth.
Vision 2050 – 2nd Edition
The Recovery Year For Hotels The final U.S. lodging industry numbers for 2020 came out and RevPAR literally finished at half of where it finished in 2019---that’s right, half! Occupancy was 66.1% at $131.17 average rate and RevPAR of $86.76. 2020 finished at 42% at a...
Vision 2050 – 1st Edition
The next 30 years begins with COVID-19 recovery. What does that look like? We pick up the pieces that were cracked, torn apart and ravished one by one. We will review demand, those elusive customers who are either mandated to stay at home, are afraid to travel or were...
Hostmark acquires RAR Hospitality
Hostmark Hospitality Group continues to grow with the acquisition of RAR Hospitality, a San Diego-based hospitality management group. The combined company now will own and operate both limited-service and full-service as well as branded and independent hotels across...
Enjoy the Journey as well as the Destination
Our 10-step Method to 2021 Business Planning Every year during late August and early September, we embark on business planning for the following year. This year has been highly unusual to say the least. So, despite the low revenues, difficult operating environment,...
California sets record for number of hotel rooms opened in 2019
In 2019, California set a new record for the number of new hotel rooms opened, according to Atlas Hospitality Group’s “California Hotel Development Survey 2019 Year-End.” During the year, the state opened 11,795 rooms in 92 hotels. As of year-end 2019, California had...
RAR Hospitality – A Snippet of our San Diego Properties
View our stunning San Diego Hotel properties.
The RAR Story
By Robert A. Rauch, CHA In 1974, I attended the University of Illinois as an English major. I had recently dropped out of Pre-Optometry at Indiana University and my father had said, “I don’t care if you major in English, just go back to school!” Ok, dad, I figured,...
2018 Lodging Conference Live! Interview with Bob Rauch and Cameron Lamming
Watch the discussion between Bob Rauch and Cameron Lamming during the 2018 Lodging Conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vchmwy-GAoc