AXIS Hospitality International

Hospitality in the 21st Century

With the vast majority of the industry still languishing in the 1950’s in the ways hotels are designed, built and run, only the newcomers seem to be bringing a fresh perspective to the business. It perhaps makes perfect sense that those that are inexperienced are succeeding in our industry with cutting edge ideas and technological efficiencies while the veterans copy the sins of our past ad nauseam. The challenge of actually running a hotel is…

Top 10 Development Building Blocks for Newbs

For those outside the industry who have successfully reached a point where they have done it all and are now ready to add a hotel or resort asset to their portfolio, road maps can be hard to come by. Most high net worth outsiders to the business assume an “Easy as 1-2-3” scenario; Build a hotel. Get a hotel company to invest. Reap huge profits. Unfortunately, Monopoly this is not. Certain crucial ducks need to…

Feasibility Studies for Dummies

Here are a few of the questions that get asked – with straight faces – when developers seek feasibility studies; “Can you make this poorly-defined project financially feasible?” “Can you give me proof that this 4 Star 250 room hotel with a 3 Star budget will work?” “Can you do a ‘quickie’ study for half-price by changing the name on the last study you did here?” “Can you produce a fictional study that will convince…

Hotels as platforms…..for creative Apps

An open stage. No scripts. No minimum, no maximum, just raw creativity and improvisation moving towards continuous improvement. If Apple can create a complex electronic device which serves as a creative platform or launch-pad for thousands of programmers’ apps and to the delight of its public, why can’t we in the hospitality industry conceptualize hotels as platforms with the same editorial freedom for product development and guest-elation through a range of Hospitality APPS? We are told…

Capital sources – Outside the box

While spreads are increasing and loan levels are decreasing in the current economic environment, market circumstances do not change the fact that there are hundreds of billions of dollars in play in hotel and resort development, necessitating significant amounts of capital to be raised by owners and lenders alike. Given this fact, demand for credible and reliable capital sources is at an all time high. Our firm has access to equity and debt capital all…

CO-DEVELOPMENT

ONE-STOP-SHOP RESORT DEVELOPMENT The luxury of incorporating the experience, imagination and creativity of world-class developers who are focused on financing and delivering a profitable, sustainable world-class product. Axis Hospitality and its Senior Advisors and Associates provide Co-Development Services to landowners and developers requiring the experience and skills of a team with strong resort development experience, including master-planning, amenity design, development modelling, financing, construction and all operations areas. PLANNING. Complete development & delivery of a hotel or resort property from…

PORTFOLIO SUMMARIES

SOME EXAMPLES OF THE SCOPE & GEOGRAPHIES OF OUR PROJECTS The projects summarized below are some examples of the type of projects in which AXIS and its partners and associates have been involved. Some are complete, some are still active, some have stalled and others are underway. From all of them we have learned valuable lessons and have met many wonderful developers and made many friends. INTERCONTINENTAL DHAKA, BANGLADESH Repositioning a mature…

REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS

These hotels & resorts are representative of some of the experience of AXIS Hospitality, its senior executive team and its close advisors. EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA Le Meridien Hotel & Convention Centre, Oran Algeria (Planning, branding, project management, execution & opening) Hotel Tavrida, Yalta, Ukraine (Planning, design, brand options, financing options) Nairobi Safari Club, Nairobi, Kenya (Management, repositioning and re-branding) Hotel Sarei Westin, Tel Aviv, Israel (Planning, design oversight, branding & reopening planning) Hyatt Regency…

ABOUT

David I. McMillan, President An experienced international hotel and resort operator & developer, British-born David McMillan has held a number of senior positions in a wide range of major international chain and resort hotels, including Four Seasons, Hilton Hotels, Hyatt Hotels, IHG, and Carlson. The product of traditional European training in such iconic properties as Le Meurice and Maxims in Paris and Le Villars Palace in Switzerland, he was recruited by Hilton to join the Savoy…

CONTACT

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