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Often, a club management agreement reads exactly like a hotel management agreement, with the word “hotel” changed to “club.” This should not be the case. Clubs have unique characteristics that should be considered in drafting a club management agreement.

1. If the club is a member-owned club, it is not a profit-seeking business. As a result, the management fee structure would not have a profit based incentive fee, but could have an incentive fee tied to membership sales and retention or members’ satisfaction.

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The number of hotels, particularly limited service hotels, operating under franchise agreements has exploded in recent years, and this trend is expected to continue in the near term.  Franchise agreements, including those in the hospitality industry, are personal contracts for the benefit of the named franchisee only, and are further limited by the franchisee’s ownership structure as of the effective date of the franchise agreement. From this point of beginning, it is logical that the franchise agreement would also include strict limitations on the franchisee’s ability to transfer ownership interests of the franchisee both within the franchisee company and to third parties. Each franchisor will adopt its own unique approach to the transferability of interests, but there will be certain commonalities that franchisees should be aware of and carefully study.

Franchisees would be wise to assume that a transfer of any direct or indirect ownership interest in the franchisee is prohibited without the prior written consent of the franchisor or expressly permitted under the franchise agreement.  Regardless of some of the variations of language, this means every transfer and covers direct and indirect transfers within the entirety of the franchisee’s ownership structure. There will be variations in the requirements to obtain the franchisor’s consent, and some transfers that may not require consent, but the general expectation should be that the general rule under the franchise agreement will be to prohibit transfers. …
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Written by Nelson F. Migdal and Molly Kane.

What are the most important characteristics to possess in the hospitality industry? This question was recently posed among a highly experienced group of hospitality industry attorneys. Responses to the question included: enthusiasm for customer experience, working as a team, reliability, honesty, and being proactive as among the most important characteristics to possess in the hospitality industry. We thought the question was worth a deeper look.

On Bill Marriott’s list of 12 Rules for Success he states that “it is more important to hire people with the right qualities than with specific experience.” So what are the qualities Bill Marriott was referring to and how do they match up with some of the responses to our question? …
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Recently, our very own Nelson Migdal, Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Hospitality Group, joined iGlobal Forum’s 3rd Global Hospitality and Lodging Investment Summit as the chairman and as a…
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