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 Newcomers

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…

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…

CASE STUDIES

A sample of the many projects undertaken by Axis Hospitality and its’ Associates. InterContinental Dhaka | Dhaka Bangladesh Repositioning a mature property back to a leading position in the market. Contracted by the Government of Bangladesh to re-develop and reposition the Sheraton Dhaka, an iconic, mature property originally opened as an InterContinental. This task had been attempted by the Owning Company over a period of some 3 years. Axis completed this task in 4 months. The…

OUR TEAM

Axis’ teams are customized to each client and the project’s precise and specific needs. All team members are internationally experienced professionals with impressive track records in the hospitality industry. David I. McMillan, President A well-regarded veteran of the hotel and resort industry on four Continents and a dozen countries, British-born McMillan has served as the Official Voice of the global hotel and restaurant industry as the CEO of the Paris-based International Hotel & Restaurant Association,…

CONTACT

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