Hospitality
RSP INSIGHTS is a collection of our perspectives and thoughts on current trends impacting the markets and clients we serve.
Hospitality Food & Beverage Trends Driving the Guest Experience
RSP’s Erin Yi and Joe Ellis discuss five of the biggest hospitality food and beverage trends influencing hotel design. In spite of all that has befallen it—a global pandemic, a volatile economy, an obtuse and often chaotic transit mechanism—the hospitality industry moved onward and upward over the last two years. One of its brightest spots […]
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How Hotel Lobby Design Transforms the Guest Experience
RSP’s Erin Yi says hotel lobby design is one of the most important changes happening in hospitality. They are everywhere, infiltrating our world like a clone army methodically advancing across our eastern flank, promising to make life easier, faster, more efficient. They are in grocery stores, airports and restaurants, but that’s just the beginning. I’m talking, […]
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Is “Local” the New Hotel Brand?
RSP Associate Principal Joe Ellis explains how traditional hotel brands are reinventing themselves and getting new interest from travelers.
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Hotel Design for the Next Travel Boom
The pent-up demand for travel is real. After a year cooped up with nowhere to go, Americans are awash in PTO. Now that COVID vaccines are widely available, it seems people are itching for a vacation. For the hospitality industry, the multi-million-dollar question is what travelers will be looking for in our new normal.
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