
About this program
Hotel Development and Real Estate Investments
With this online course, you will obtain the fundamental knowledge, skills, and practice to be able to make successful business decisions related to hotel development and investments:
- asset management
- feasibility analysis
- development and negotiations
- valuation of hotel investments.
Admission requirements
This course is designed for hospitality professionals, hotel owners, bankers, investors and any function related to real estate investments wishing to update their skills and learn about hotel development and real estate investments.
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Program content
Week 1 to 5
Hotel Investments:
- Hotels and real estate
- Markets and their efficiency
- Capital types & capital structure
- Loans
- Valuation analysis
- Direct capitalization-conclusion
- Investment valuation
- Investment analysis
- Final assessment
Week 6 to 10
Feasibility Analysis:
- Strategic hotel investments
- Feasibility analysis
- Site analysis
- Financial feasibility
- Stakeholders
- Hotel operators
- HMA negotiations
- Final assessment
Week 11 to 15
Asset Management:
- Data ownership control & liability
- Analysis, tools and building strategies
- Budget - owner’s perspectives
- Asset management plan
- Various stages of asset management
- Final assessment
Scholarships & funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the school website for more information.
Tuition
Tuition fee: CHF5,940
Qualification
Valuation of Hotel Investments
- Explain the principles of the capital structure (debt and equity) and give examples of their application in hotel valuation
- Examine the different methods of hotel valuation and apply them to real life examples
Feasibility Analysis
- Explain the entire hotel development process, from evaluating a site, space planning, recommending facilities, to conducting a feasibility and evaluation of the project viability
- Construct a project plan for the development of a new hotel
- Break down the key commercial HOT’s and levers of the main contract types
Hotel Asset Management
- Defend the crucial perspective of hotel asset management, in order to meet investment objectives and create sustainable profits
- Develop an ‘asset management’ toolkit for evaluating projects
- Analyze the components of the hotel sector in terms of types of hotel products, international brands and various business models and contracts
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Founded in 1893 as Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, EHL Hospitality Business School is recognized as the best university of hospitality management in the world, and it boasts a 96% employment rate among recent graduates. Renowned Academic Quality EHL Hospitality Business...
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