Hotelivate-Savills
Hotelivate–Savills is a hospitality consulting firm serving hotel owners, developers, investors and brands across Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
Competitive Advantages
Which advantages over its rivals hold up, and why are they hard to copy?
The firm's consulting lineage traces to the former HVS South Asia practice, giving its teams long experience in hotel valuation, feasibility and operator advisory across the region. Its leadership bios cite more than two decades of Asia Pacific consulting activity.
Ownership within the Savills group connects the practice to a real estate advisory platform with a network of more than 700 offices, while its annual Trends and Opportunities survey and quarterly Hotel Check-In reports supply proprietary market data.
Market Outlook
Is its category moving in its favor or against it?
Hotelivate-Savills tracks India's branded hotel market through its annual Trends and Opportunities survey, which has run for 28 editions and draws on roughly two thousand hotels, and through quarterly reviews of listed Indian hotel companies.
Its joint construction-cost research with Savills India benchmarks development costs across hotels in about 150 Indian cities, feeding the firm's feasibility and investment advisory work.
Product Overview
What does the product do for its buyer, and how is it delivered?
Hotelivate-Savills provides hospitality consulting across six service lines: strategic advisory, asset management, investment advisory, executive search, project execution planning, and a day-rate consultant engagement sold as Consult-a-Day. Its strategic advisory work covers feasibility and market studies, operator selection, and valuations for hotel owners and investors across Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
The firm also runs an events business that has hosted the Hotel Investment Conference South Asia since 2005, together with the THINC conference series across Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, and the Middle East.