 The
Hospitality Industry
The individual
components in the varied fields of travel and tourism comprise
the world's largest industry, which has become truly global
in nature and scope. Predicted increases in tourism in every
corner of the world will provide opportunities for well-positioned
firms to profit from the growth.
Cayuga
can assist the forward thinking company in achieving its goals
while maintaining focus on quality consistent with the markets
being served.
Geographic Organization
Cayuga
has over 150 members worldwide and operates with six managing
directors and 25 regional directors strategically located
throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, providing
superb industry-wide connections for quick response time to
any inquiry.
This geographic
diversity allows Cayuga
to field an advisory team anywhere in the world on short notice
and without excess travel costs to the client.
Cayuga's
managing directors and regional directors promote market awareness
of the organization, counsel and motivate new members, expand
the Cayuga
network, and closely monitor the quality of service delivered
by individual members within each region.
Who
Are We?
All Cayuga
members share a common bond of commitment to excellence in
our respective disciplines, and preservation of the highest
standard of professionalism, ethics and quality of service
in any assignment we undertake.
Cayuga
members are:
- Present
and former senior executives, entrepreneurs and educators
serving the hospitality industries;
- Members
of the Cornell Hotel Society, successful in project planning,
design, finance, development, operation, turn-around, brokerage...and
many other related fields;
- Highly
experienced, highly motivated, with varied backgrounds throughout
the spectrum of events which comprise the entire economic
life cycle of most hospitality ventures and educational
programs;
- Well
traveled, having observed and experienced first-hand a vast
range of approaches to virtually all aspects of hospitality
education, project development and operations;
- Well
placed in terms of industry and institutional contacts;
and
- Proven
communicators, well able to express to others our analyses
of project viability, performance, problems and problem
solving, and our suggestions for success...concisely and
directly to the heart of the matter.
Cayuga's
Clients
Although
the services we provide are relevant to a wide variety of
clients, we typically consult with:
- Hotel,
resort, club, spa, casino and foodservice developers and
operators
- Tourism
and economic development agencies
- Independent
developers, project planners and architects
- Local,
state and national governments
- Educational
institutions
- Health
care institutions
- Banks,
insurance companies, pension funds and other sources of
finance
- Attorneys,
accountants and other professionals
Scope
of Professional Services
Following
is a partial, un-ordered list of consulting and other professional
services which may be offered by Cayuga's
members. Cayuga
maintains a flexible position relative to services offered
by its members, ready to respond to emerging needs of its
members' clients as economic, financing, competitive, technological
and other conditions change.
- Market
research
- Market
positioning
- Marketing
and Public Relations planning
- Interim
management of hotels, resorts, clubs, casinos
and foodservice properties
- Management
performance audits
- Operations
analysis and improvement, e.g., food and beverage, sales
and marketing, accounting and internal controls, engineering
- Feasibility
studies
- Project
master planning
- Development
planning
- Operational
/ design programming
- Facilities
design
- Interior
design, design specification formation, and purchasing
- Computer
systems design and implementation
- Human
resources planning and programs design
- Staff
manuals and jobs description development
- Strategic
planning
- Valuations
of real estate and improvements
- Real
estate brokerage
- Business
brokerage
- Mortgage
brokerage
- Executive
search
- Caterer
RFP and contract documentation formation
- Hospitality
educational institutions planning and operations
- Hospitality
training programs planning and operations
- Tourism
development
- Litigation
support services
- Expert
witness testimony
- Speeches,
seminars, college-level courses, and workshops
We are
listed in the Hospitality
Management UK Site. Take a look!
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