Hunter Hotel Conference 2024 Recap If you’re planning a hotel project, you want your design and procurement consultants to know what’s happening within the industry. When we do our homework and connect with others in the hospitality marketplace, we can gain insights that help us better understand the challenges our clients face. The Innvision team attends premier industry events such as the Hunter Hotel Investment Conference each year, which “welcomes anyone involved in the financing, management, and development of hotels,” including franchisors/franchisees, owners, management companies ..read more

Innvision's 20th Anniversary: Reflecting Back & Looking Forward Time flies when you’re having fun! As we celebrate Innvision’s 20 years of providing interior design and FF&E to the hospitality industry, it seems two decades have passed quickly. Yet, we have grown and learned valuable lessons that can only come through sustained effort, experience, and a perspective built by time. In this post, Innvision co-founders Walter Jones (Chairman) and Chris Parker (President) discuss industry changes, key learnings, and exciting opportunities ahead. Brand Influence Back in 2004, we noticed h ..read more

2024 Color Trends & 4 Ways to Implement Them at Your Hotel As a hotelier, it’s important to pay attention to color trends in the industry. After all, color influences your hotel’s overall atmosphere, theme, and guest experience. It can help create ambiance and mood to evoke emotions such as calmness and relaxation in guestrooms, while arousing vibrance and energy in common areas. Color helps define the brand and identity of your hotel. Consistent and intentional uses of color throughout a hotel reinforce brand recognition in powerful, non-verbal ways.  Moreover, thoughtful applicati ..read more

Hotel FF&E Supply Chain Effects from the Red Sea Crisis & Panama Canal Drought With today’s globally interconnected supply chain for hotel FF&E, if your products are coming from overseas, you can expect to see an impact when challenges arise in other parts of the world that affect major shipping lanes. Such is the case concerning the current Red Sea crisis and the Panama Canal drought. In this post, you will learn what’s going on, how these events affect the hotel FF&E supply chain, and steps you can take to minimize the impacts to your hotel project. The Red Sea Crisis & ..read more

ALIS Conference 2024 Recap As a hotelier, you want to make the most of your hotel investment, and as your design and procurement partner, Innvision wants the same! This is why we attended the Americas Lodging Investment (ALIS) Conference and Trade Show: to create relationships and gain valuable insights to maximize your investment—and boost your bottom line. About ALIS Attending conferences such as ALIS allows us to stay up-to-date on the latest in hospitality and the direction of our industry in 2024. In attendance at ALIS were hotel brands, investors, asset managers, architects, interior ..read more

5 Questions To Ask Before Hiring a Hospitality Designer You want guests to love your hotel’s interior since it’s the first thing they see when they walk through your doors. To make an excellent first impression, it is important to select the right hospitality designer for your specific property, vision, and location. However, there’s more to hiring a hospitality designer who fits your needs from an aesthetic and budgetary standpoint than just what meets the eye. To start, if you are developing a luxury hotel, you don’t want a designer specializing in low- to mid-scale properties, and vice v ..read more

How Long Will It Take to Renovate My Hotel in 2024? Every hotel renovation is different. If you are not strictly following a prototypical renovation plan for your brand, certain circumstances, such as a custom renovation plan or a brand conversion, can make the timeline vary from one project to the next. Furthermore, the last three years of ever-changing supply chain dynamics challenged FF&E delivery planning. But fortunately, here in 2024, we can make an educated estimate of how long your hotel renovation will take. Before we begin, it’s important to note the importance of hotel renovat ..read more

Bright Spots from 2023 We’re happy to report that many good things happened in 2023. To close out the year, we’d like to highlight a few of our favorites—at Innvision and in the hospitality industry: Innvision Bright Spots At Innvision, we are coming up on our 20th anniversary as a company! We started in early 2004. Hilton announced their 2022 Development Awards earlier this year, and two of our projects (interior design by ID Studio and FF&E procurement by Innvision) were on their list. Hilton Garden Inn Haymarket (VA) and Homewood Suites Destin (FL) both won New Build of the Year for ..read more

How to Approach a Hotel Renovation vs. a New Construction Whether you’re looking to renovate your existing hotel or construct a new one from the ground up, how you approach the project will be very different. Oftentimes, a hotel will stay operational throughout a renovation, brand conversion, or brand PIP (property improvement plan) implementation. This demands specific planning to maximize guest comfort and access, while minimizing disruptions on the property. In contrast, new construction projects don’t have those same limitations, but do require implementing certain best practices for sm ..read more

5 Questions You Must Ask Before Hiring a Hotel FF&E Provider When working on a new construction or renovation, the quality of the team you assemble will directly impact the property’s success. A hotel project can span years, and plenty of unforeseen circumstances will occur. Your relationship with your procurement consultant will be close and longstanding, and how they handle challenges can make or break your timeline and bottom line. As you evaluate different FF&E providers for your hospitality project, here are five questions you must ask to help you determine who would be the best ..read more