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...
Nov 18, 2014
By: Edwin Fuller Founder and President of Laguna Strategic Advisors Everywhere we look these days, it seems, everything appears to be falling apart. New, politically explosive global trouble spots emerge daily while lingering ones become more demanding and complex....
Sep 18, 2014
By: Edwin Fuller Founder and President of Laguna Strategic Advisors Later this month, on September 27, people around the world will mark World Tourism Day as they have every year since 1980. That’s the day the United Nations designated as the one on which we recognize...
Aug 19, 2014
By: Edwin Fuller Founder and President of Laguna Strategic Advisors When I joined Marriott Corporation in 1972, the company’s portfolio consisted of 22 properties—three franchises, one managed property and 18 company-owned hotels. As a business model, Ownership was...
