Feb 12, 2015
By: Edwin Fuller Founder and President of Laguna Strategic Advisors Think about this: Last year, China’s Dalian Wanda Group got the attention of the global hotel community with its plans to build and operate in London the first Chinese-built and operated luxury hotel...
Jan 21, 2015
By: Edwin Fuller Founder and President of Laguna Strategic Advisors The announcement last month about the reset of US-Cuba relations was big news here in the US. Many agree with President Obama that, after 50 years, the US trade embargo against Cuba was not working...
Jan 7, 2015
By: Edwin Fuller Founder and President of Laguna Strategic Advisors Recently, I came across a study of frequent international business travelers in which about a third of the respondents indicated that their personal security ranks among their primary concerns while...
Jan 2, 2015
By: Edwin Fuller Founder and President of Laguna Strategic Advisors Earlier this year, I blogged about the excitement in China generated by the news that its Dalian Wanda Group planned to invest $1.09bn to build and operate a luxury hotel in London. At the time of...
Dec 2, 2014
By: Edwin Fuller Founder and President of Laguna Strategic Advisors The facts tell the story. Since 2000 the rise of the world’s emerging markets has been one of the defining, but relatively little reported, features of the global economy. Consider this: In the next...
Dec 2, 2014
By: Edwin Fuller Founder and President of Laguna Strategic Advisors I spent the last half of my 40-year career with Marriott International traveling the globe as president and managing director of the company’s offshore lodging division. During those years, I visited...
