• Provided strategic planning services for numerous hotel owners and management companies with respect to business planning, reorganization, repositioning of hotel properties, operations analysis and market planning.

• Provided market entry and hotel acquisition strategy for a major international hotel company. The assignment included identifying acquisition targets, development of strategy, market and economic analysis, deal structuring, and transaction/closing analysis.

• Prepared a strategic plan and analysis for a major luxury hotel chain to reposition its flagship Waikīkī property. The strategy included analyzing and providing strategic recommendations in the chain's sales and marketing distribution system and product delivery.

• Prepared strategic analyses regarding developing and evaluating varying concepts and components for redeveloped and planned master-planned resorts for a variety of clients, including owners, lenders and management companies. The engagements included hotel and resort condominium mixed use sales and strategic pricing, marketing, operations, and evaluation of economic and market impacts of different concept and development strategies.

• Conducted an Asia-wide strategic market analysis for a global hotel management company, including brand positioning, market penetration, identification of acquisition targets and strategies, and development of market penetration and entry strategies.

• Prepared two major global strategic competitive studies for the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority.  The engagement required analysis of source markets in the U.S. mainland, Europe, Asia, Australia/New Zealand and South America.  An analysis of Hawai‘i's global competitive destinations was also examined.  Analyses included market and demographic trend analysis, travel distribution, socio-economic trends, market penetration, and analyses of the airline and cruise line industries.

• Prepared several major strategic planning studies regarding accommodation inventory trends and forecasts for the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority, the County of Maui, the American Resort Developer's Association, and a number of private sector clients.  The analyses included identifying, quantifying and analyzing hotel, timeshare, resort condominium and other visitor accommodations inventory in the State of Hawai‘i.  The engagements provided strategic analyses regarding the future direction of accommodations inventory based on alternative strategic development scenarios.

• Prepared a strategic market plan for the Cyprus Ministry of Tourism for the Japan market.  The analysis included analyzing and evaluating the tourism and hotel infrastructure in Cyprus, destination access, distribution channel analysis, market segmentation, analysis of potential market penetration and preparation of a marketing plan.

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