TREND report Welcomes Back the Roaring 20s
Nobody can predict the future; however, history does repeat itself, and the next couple of years promise to present us with a unique window of opportunity. The Renaissance Period emerged from the Bubonic Plague; the Roaring 20s emerged from the Spanish Flu. And now, as we emerge from a new crisis, the Roaring 20s are back. It is the cyclical nature of history.
When humans endure a major crisis, it alters our way of living and forever changes our needs. Once we emerge, we begin making up for lost time, rethinking about what is important, and pursuing new lifestyles. It is human nature.
Meanwhile, when the new world begins to crystalize, market leaders change, the deck gets reshuffled, and we get to experience how chaos creates both risk AND opportunity.
We have done some shuffling of the deck here at TREND report where I will be assuming the role of Managing Editor while Lucinda takes more of an advisory role.
I have been collaborating with Lucinda and her team at TREND report long enough to realize Trends are a CEO-level ‘problem and solution’ because suddenly, every organization needs to evaluate if they have the right products, right markets, and right services to move forward. My role at The Real Estate Daily News and RED Comps will remain unaltered, continuing to shine light on those commercial real estate deals every day.
In these times of rapid change, consumer trends are the secret weapon. Trends provide us with clues to decipher emerging needs, shifts in opportunity, and changes in consumer behavior whether it be in real estate or consumer products.
My assurance to you is by spending time reading the TREND report each month, you will be taking steps toward understanding the new world of 2022 from experts. Decipher where our world is heading and lead yourself and your team to new fields of opportunity.
Let’s do this together!
IN THIS ISSUE
From marketers, developers and consultants to thought leaders and keynote speakers, the hospitality and tourism sector here is big on talent. Whether they are changing the game with innovative concepts or empowering hoteliers with proven tactics, these industry insiders have set themselves apart as some of Southern Arizona’s brightest stars.
A huge thank you to Danette Bewley, President & CEO of Tucson Airport Authority; Casey Anderson of Fourth Avenue Merchants Association; John Harper of American Heritage Railways, the New Old Tucson management; Diane Frisch, Director of Attractions & Tourism at Pima County; Felipe Garcia, President & CEO of Visit Tucson; and Tucson Foodie directors, Shane Reiser and Matt Sterner and Jonathan Mabry, Executive Director Tucson City of Gastronomy.
I particularly want to thank all of them for their contagious passion for our area that attracts more and more visitors from around the world to Tucson every year.
When Conde Nast named Tucson ‘one of the best places to travel to next’ on its ‘2021 Hot List’, they noted, “Most come to Tucson for its miles of hiking trails under year-round sunny skies, but it’s also worth planning a trip around its food history.” Man were they ever right!
This issue of Trend report gathers some of the best minds in the hospitality industry as content contributors. Special thanks to ‘rock stars’ such as Patrick Landman, CEO of XOTELS, an International Hotel Management Company; Branden White, Vice President at CBRE Hotels Advisory Services; SueAnn Lemmon, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Focus Hospitality Management; Frank Knotts, President of Knott Development, developer of Mosaic Quarter; Kimbra Cole and Jerry Hawkins, Managing Partners with Hawkins Cole Hospitality & Investment Real Estate; Mia Dabdoub with Loveblock Partners, a developer in Downtown Tucson, Zabada Abouelhana, Vice President of HVS in Phoenix, offering services related to investment sales and capital markets exclusively for the hospitality industry; and Moniqua Lane, Developer of the boutique Downtown Clifton and Citizen Hotels.
And last but not least I’d like to thank our team at Trend report: Patti van Leer, our Production Artist; Michael Rossmann, our Senior Research Analyst; Melissa Vucijevic, our Bookkeeper; and Jack Paddock, our Web Engineeer.
Thank you all for your continued support,
Karen Schutte, TREND report
Managing Editor