The Year Behind Us & The Year Ahead: Interpreting US Lodging Forecasts for 2025

October 16, 2024

R. Mark Woodworth, Principal at Woodworth Core Group and Board Member for Hotel Investor Apps, considers US lodging industry forecasts for 2025 along side US economic forecasts for 2025 for an in-depth analysis and offers a clear takeaway for industry leaders.

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HIA’s Chip Fritsch on AI in Hotel Accounting

June 18, 2024

Chip Fritsch, COO and Co-Founder of Hotel Investor Apps was featured in Hotel Business with an exclusive article on power of Artificial Intelligence in modern hotel accounting software.

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Post Pandemic Déjà Vu

April 1, 2024

Since the start of this century, we have experienced three recessions: March – November 2001 (9/11 and the Dot.Com bubble); December 2007 – June 2009 (Great Financial Crisis – GFC), and February – April 2020 (the pandemic). All three had very different contours (depth and duration), which may be explained by the principal cause associated with each contraction.

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New Business Intelligence Integration with Inova

March 18, 2024

In HIA Intelligence, HIA’s business intelligence and labor management solution, the Inova integration will work directly with HIA’s business intelligence and labor management tool to help hoteliers make smarter labor decisions by offering real-time labor analysis.

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HIA Recognized with 2024 Innovation Award

February 19, 2024

Hotel Investor Apps (HIA), the hospitality-specific ERP, Accounting & Business Intelligence solution, has been recognized with the Acumatica Innovation Award 2024.

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New Enhancements to BankConnect!

February 16, 2024

With the new seamless bank aggregator, HIA boasts more coverage of local banks, and more total banking integrations than any other accounting solution in the hospitality industry.

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Baywood Hotels Adopts Hotel Investor Apps Business Intelligence Software

February 1, 2024

Hotel Investor Apps (HIA), the hospitality-specific ERP platform, announced today that Baywood Hotels (Baywood), a privately held development and management company operating over 120 hotels nationwide, has expanded its utilization of HIA’s ERP & Accounting platform with the addition of HIA Intelligence, a business intelligence product.

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The Good and the Bad of the Year Ahead

September 25, 2023

The economic outlook for the hospitality industry in 2024.

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Introducing Velixo – HIA’s Integration for Excel!

September 19, 2023

Even though we love to point out that Hotel Investor Apps ERP & Accounting software replaces manual Excel work with automated imports, and more error free data, we have to admit that there can still be a time and a place for Excel. When it comes to reporting, budgeting, and planning, we know that many […]

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Stacy Silver Joins HIA Board of Directors

September 15, 2023

Hotel Investor Apps Inc. (HIA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Stacy Silver as the newest addition to its board of directors.

Stacy Silver, ISHC, is President of Silver Hospitality Group, LLC, a well-known consulting firm focused on building revenue and profitability for hospitality companies through industry relations and marketing solutions.

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Press Release: HIA Launches Revolutionary Advanced History Import Tool

June 9, 2023

Hotel Investor Apps (HIA), the most advanced hotel-specific Accounting & Business Intelligence software, has just announced the launch of a new industry-first import capability. Designed exclusively by HIA’s software development team, this feature enables hoteliers switching accounting software to import GL level historical transaction detail, for the first time in the industry.  This means whereas […]

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Waiting for a US Recession is like Waiting for Godot: Does the Waiting Game Apply to the US Lodging Industry?

March 30, 2023

The recent failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, which could be a signal of more problems to come in the banking arena, are only the latest concerns regarding the U.S. economy. But this is not the only time analysts have talked about recession lately. Nick Timiraos recently penned a piece in the Wall […]

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HIA Wins Acumatica Development Excellence Award

February 3, 2023

February 1st, 2023 – Hotel Investor Apps (HIA), the most advanced hotel-specific Accounting & Business Intelligence software, has just received the coveted Acumatica “Development Excellence Award.” The award was announced at the 2023 Acumatica Summit being held this week in Las Vegas.

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Time to Stop Hugging the Bear?

January 19, 2023

2023 Economic Outlook for the US Hotel Industry. By R. Mark Woodworth
Thinking back over this past year, many important economic indicators (the rate of inflation, elevated energy costs, Federal Reserve rate increases, labor scarcity leading to higher wages, etc.) were suggesting that a recession in the near-to-mid-term bordered on being inevitable. Certainly, a bearish outlook.

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HIA Expands Business Intelligence with Netchex Integration

October 3, 2022

Hotel Investor Apps (HIA), the leading hotel-specific Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform, today announced its integration with Netchex, a payroll, benefits, and HR company with a strong focus on the hospitality industry, enabling HIA business intelligence users to make smarter business and labor decisions with advanced labor analytics.

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Keeping Things in Perspective

July 5, 2022

While lodging fundamentals have improved dramatically over the past two years, many see threatening clouds on the horizon. . .

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Makan Hospitality takes their Back-Office to the Next Level

October 13, 2021

When Makan Hospitality, based in Little Rock, Arkansas, decided it was time to upgrade their back-office and accounting software, they chose the best and only full enterprise resource planning platform for the hotel industry, Hotel Investor Apps (HIA) ERP & Accounting software.

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Merani Hotel Group Upgrades to Hotel Investor Apps ERP

June 30, 2021

Merani Hotel Group, an independent hotel management company with hotels and restaurants in Canada and the U.S., has upgraded their back-office software to Hotel Investor Apps ERP & Accounting for Advanced Capabilities, Software Integrations, and International Functionality.

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