Your hotel is open. Now make it perform.
I assess the property, show you what is holding it back with the cost of fixing it, and then rebuild the service standard on your floor.
A first consultation, €399. I read the property and its numbers with you, and you leave with a straight read on what is holding it back, the direction I would take and the reasoning behind it, and what the engagement would involve — cost, time and result. Credited in full against any engagement started within 90 days.
Diagnostic and repositioning plan
I review the financials, visit the property, evaluate every department, and present a full strategic plan in a workshop with your team.
- Financial review — P&L, revenue per room, cost structure
- On-site assessment — service standards, guest experience, operations
- Market positioning — where the hotel sits against its competitive set
You receive
Performance Scorecard, Repositioning Roadmap, Revenue Action Plan and Operational Action Plan, each with the cost of implementation.
Brand repositioning
Positioning is declared by what a guest sees before booking. Identity, photography, website and materials are rebuilt together, so that designers, photographers and whoever runs the channels build the same hotel rather than five different versions of it.
- Positioning and brand identity
- Full photography — rooms, public spaces, F&B, experience
- Website and booking path
- Press kit and guidelines, so every supplier follows one system
You receive
A written identity, a photographic library and a website that support the rate you intend to hold.
Distribution and direct revenue strategy
OTA dependency is measured before it is reduced, and measured twice: on room nights and on revenue. The gap between the two readings shows where the margin is lost.
- OTA dependency measured separately on room nights and on revenue
- A direct booking path without friction
- Direct benefits that do not erode rate integrity
- Turning the OTA guest into a direct one on the next stay
You receive
The channel picture with the real margin of each, and the plan to move share to direct.
Operating standards and staff training
The plan becomes procedure and behaviour. Operating procedures are rewritten department by department — not only the guest-facing ones — and taught to the team in live service, until they are simply how the work is done.
- Operating procedures rewritten department by department
- Service standards and guest journey sequences
- Training curriculum built on the procedures, delivered in live service
- Department heads trained to observe, score and correct
- Team certification against pass criteria
- The same indicators remeasured against the baseline
You receive
A dedicated operating manual, a trained and certified team, and the same metrics remeasured against the baseline.
Continuity and management model
Your managers hold the standard with the routines I leave behind. If ownership would rather step back, my operator partners can take on daily management under a Hotel Management Agreement.
- Leadership routines that hold the standard every shift
- Periodic remeasurement with the same method
- Full management available through the operator partners
Daily management under a Hotel Management Agreement is run by my operator partners, who between them run more than 70 hotels alongside Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt and IHG. DolceVita writes the standard and installs it; they run the property.
Before deciding anything, the property read with me.
An hotel that is not earning what it should has a reason, and it is rarely the one the owner is being told. The consultation finds it before anyone commits to fixing it.
the first consultation, credited in full
- You sit with me, and I have run properties at this level
- You talk first — the property, the market you sit in, and what has already been tried
- Then the questions that locate it: what your rate says about your position, where your occupancy is actually coming from, and which part of the operation is absorbing the difference
- What I see, said plainly — including if the problem is not where you have been looking
- Your own questions, answered directly
- A straight read on what is holding the property back
- The direction I would take, and the reasoning behind it
- Which of the three services comes first, and in what order
- What the engagement would involve — cost, time and result
The €399 is credited in full against any engagement started within 90 days.