Hospitality Finance

Will Business Travel Return to Pre-Covid Levels?

A quick scan of the trade press spotlights an aspirational outlook for business travel. Headlines read “Execs Choose (Real) Face Time Over Zoom” and “Business Travel Ignores Inflation.” But a less selective read offers more muted conclusions. “Business Travel Resumes, But Not at Its Former Pace” may best capture the industry spirit right now. Uncertain […]

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This Company Puts New Spin on ‘Digital Nomad’

Royal Caribbean announced this week what could be the definitive travel experience: a nine-month around-the-world cruise. Given that the global economy has yet to rebound fully from the pandemic, we will give them credit for moxie. Images of the Diamond Princess floating in Yokohama harbor, unable to disembark some 3,700 passengers, will presumably be recast […]

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Travel Tech Spotlights Boom-to-Bust Investing

Clear Secure Inc (NYSE: YOU) went public at the end of June. Road warriors in the US will know the firm from the biometric airport kiosks that they run in places like Orlando and Phoenix. While stock trading data is still sparse, it appears that the stock price has benefited impressively from investor attention. One […]

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Theme Parks Benefit From Unexpected Investors

Tottering theme parks may find new life in corporate venture capital, largely for knowledge-transfer reasons. And while it may be too early to identify a trend, we are intrigued by the announcement that China’s Fuson Group will be buying a minority stake of the Dutch-themed Huis Ten Bosch park in Nagasaki, Japan.

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