2026 will not be the easiest transaction environment I’ve seen over the last 30 years, but it may be the most strategic. Owners who’ve been in a holding pattern through 2024 and 2025 will likely see better entry points as financing conditions improve and a wave of maturities force decisions. With debt markets loosening and...
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Over the past decade, hospitality tech stacks have exploded, with more apps and services promising better visibility and deeper insights to make reporting easier and let decisions happen faster. And in many ways, they delivered. Teams now have access to more data than ever before. But as many hoteliers have had time to sit with...
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HIA, the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform built for hospitality, is yet again the recipient of Acumatica’s prestigious Vertical Innovation award. At the Acumatica Summit 2026, held in Seattle, Washington from January 25th-28th, over 3000 attendees gathered in the capital of global cloud computing to celebrate Acumatica’s innovative, AI-driven business technology. Out of hundreds of ISV’s...
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Takeaways from ALIS 2026 Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS) 2026 didn’t signal the start of a rebound. It signaled a shift in management strategy - and what will be necessary to win this year Hoteliers are coming into 2026 with more realism than optimism. RevPAR ended last year down 0.3%, and the 2026 growth projections...
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Backed by 200+ Reviews, Users Hail HIA as a “Strategic Asset” for Hotel Management. HIA, the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform built for hospitality, has been named a Top 3 Finalist for Best Hotel Accounting Software in the prestigious 2026 Hotel Tech Awards. Presented by Hotel Tech Report, this recognition highlights HIA’s innovative platform...
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"HIA is driven to build the best solution for our hospitality clients. We want to be the system that solves pain points, that allows you to do more with your team, to take them out of manual data entry and put them on a higher tier of operations. We are never going to be done...
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Imagine you’re a corporate controller who manages over 50 hotel properties spread across multiple regions. Before you can make a single decision about payments, funding, or cash movement, you need to know your balances, so every morning starts the same way. You, or a subordinate, log into bank portals, one after another after another. You...
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By R. Mark Woodworth, Principal, Woodworth Core Group Mark Woodworth, Principal of Woodworth Core Group and Board Member of Hotel Investor Apps Inc., brings over 40 years of hospitality industry advisory experience, including at CBRE Hotels and PKF Consulting, to inform his perspective on the current economic outlook for the U.S. lodging industry. For much...
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HIA ERP & Accounting Software, the only ERP purpose-built for hospitality, streamlines multi-property management and improves accountability by consolidating financial and operational functions onto a single platform. See how your team can have full visibility into each hotel's financials while also recovering up to 75 hours per hotel, per month.
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If 2025 taught the industry anything, it’s that tighter margins and fragmented technology created a strong desire for consolidation and unification. To get the advantage for 2026, hotels need processes to help them get real-time data visibility and to cut out the repetitive work slowing teams down. The first step to a smarter, more efficient...
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If you’ve spent enough time in hotel finance and operations, you’ve seen how the pressure to operate smarter, faster, and with more visibility (all while walking tighter margins) has grown exponentially in the past decade. The need for consolidation and access to everything in one place has never been more in demand. It’s one of...
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Today, many hotels are in the midst of migrating from legacy PMS technology to next-generation, cloud-native solutions. At HIA, as we work with hoteliers to map their new PMS systems to our financial management software, we see that many of the new capabilities that these systems offer are the same great features leading the way...
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That short window between year-end close and the January 31 deadline can feel like a sprint for hotel finance teams rushing to get 1099s out the door. From chasing down missing W-9s and balancing year-end reports to last-minute runs to Staples and stuffing envelopes in triplicate, the cycle can feel like a mix of pressure,...
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Hospitality may start at the front desk, but profitability starts in the back office. While your guests may get new flashy keyless entry and streamlined services, your finance teams often still deal with spreadsheets, dozens of different logins, and time-consuming workarounds. The result? A fine-tuned guest experience, but the teams responsible for forecasting, budgeting, and...
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HIA announced today the promotion of Chris Hall to Chief Revenue Officer. This promotion recognizes the significant role that Hall has played in the growth of the company.
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2026 could be a turn around year for the US Lodging Industry, a welcome relief to the slow growth and high uncertainty of 2025. In this article, renowned industry expert R. Mark Woodworth shares his perspective on the current economic indicators shaping his outlook for the U.S. Lodging Industry in 2026 and beyond. R. Mark...
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Charting a Winning Path Through Uncertainty HIA's leadership team, including CEO Charlie Fritsch, COO Chip Fritsch, and CRO Chris Hall, were on-site at The Lodging Conference 2025 recently to meet colleagues and share insights. The record breaking attendance (3,000+ attendees) was a clear indication of the industry’s optimism–despite remaining economic headwinds. Here is a summary...
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The 4th quarter of the year has begun and we get to reflect on all the new software enhancements built by our HIA development team in the last quarter. The team has rolled out multiple new capabilities for the platform as well as enhanced existing integrations. Newly built features include streamlined manual imports for BankConnect...
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Industry leaders like Midas Hospitality, Azul Hospitality Group, and Grand Pacific Resorts are upgrading to deliver next-level results, signaling a definitive industry move to unified data. Glenwood, MD - October 1, 2025 - HIA, the only Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform purpose-built for hospitality, today announced a period of accelerated growth, having added over...
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In "How Management Companies Are Winning With Consolidated Data," Charles “Chip” Fritsch, COO and Co-Founder of Hotel Investor Apps, shares how top management companies are using technology to differentiate themselves. Fritsch notes how the most innovative management companies he sees are laying a strategic foundation for growth. This includes adopting cloud-native, integration-friendly technology as the...
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