Hotel consulting, from the feasibility study to the quality of the service.
A hotel that does not earn what it should. An opening that happens once. A project to decide before the money is spent. Those are the three moments I work at.
Three moments where the right decisions matter most.
A chain receives its standards, its training and its numbers from head office. An independent hotel has to find them elsewhere.
Before you invest.
A beautiful hotel can still be the wrong hotel for its market. We study demand, competition, positioning, concept and economics before major capital is committed. The objective is simple: understand what deserves to be built, for whom, at what level and with what commercial logic.
Feasibility Studies→When the hotel should be earning more.
Occupancy alone tells very little. We look at positioning, pricing, distribution, room economics, operating structure and the guest proposition to understand where performance is being left behind — then build a practical plan around the property you already have.
Strategic Consulting→When the guest experience has to become consistent.
Luxury disappears quickly when service depends on who happens to be working that day. We design standards with the property, work beside the team during live operations and measure whether those standards survive real service.
Guest Experience Quality Assurance→
Kledis Brahimi
Founder & Lead Consultant
The people behind the work have spent their careers inside hotels.
Kledis began his hospitality career inside properties including Bulgari Hotels, Armani Hotels and Palazzo Versace Dubai.
When a project requires additional expertise, DolceVita brings in professionals whose careers include Four Seasons, The Ritz-Carlton, Belmond and Rocco Forte.
DolceVita's operator partners actively manage more than 70 properties alongside international groups including Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt and IHG.
The point of those names is simple: the advice comes from people who have operated inside the environments owners are trying to build.
Two minutes inside a Belmond property, during real service.
Belmond, Rocco Forte and Borgo Egnazia have all opened working floors to these cameras. This is two minutes from Villa Sant'Andrea, with the property's own Front Office Manager on screen.
Antonio Cannavò, Front Office Manager — Villa Sant'Andrea, A Belmond Hotel. Filmed on location.
See the masterclass series→DolceVita in numbers
70+
Properties under my operator partners' active management
10+
Years in luxury hospitality
1
Consultant on your project, from the first number to opening night
Founded in Milan · Serving Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific
Some work should create value beyond the hotel.
DolceVita founded Giovani Talenti dell'Ospitalità, a free initiative connecting Italian hospitality students with leaders from the industry.
Its first two editions were held in Catania and Rome under the patronage of the European Parliament and the host cities. Alongside the conference, DolceVita runs introductory hospitality sessions inside Italian hotel schools.
Under the patronage of
Some of the speakers
- Carlos Diaz de la Lastra — CEO, Les Roches
- Filip Boyen — former CEO, Small Luxury Hotels of the World and Forbes Travel Guide
- Antonio Barreca — Director General, Federturismo
- Gianluca Caramanna — Italian Ministry of Tourism
- Alessandro Onorato — City of Rome
- Brando Benifei — Member of the European Parliament
Start with the hotel, the project and the numbers.
Bring the property you already own or the project you are considering. We go through it together.
the assessment, credited in full
- Where you stand — a direct assessment of the strongest opportunity, the biggest risk or the decision that deserves attention first
- What I would do — the direction I would take and the reasoning behind it
- What an engagement would involve — scope, timing, cost and intended result
The €399 is credited in full toward an engagement started within 90 days.