Exploring Safety Systems and Devices: A Virtual Education Preview from Solution Providers
How does an industry that is required to offer a relaxed, discreet, unobtrusive, and unencumbered experience for guests and members, reconcile those goals with offering guests and members a secure environment? Every company is responsible for creating and maintaining a…
The FUN-damentals of Club Budgeting: Best Practices for the Operating Budget
This blog post recaps best practices that positively impact how a club approaches its operating budget. It is based on the HFTP webinar from January 21, 2021 titled “Club Budgeting and FUN-damentals.”
Club Tax Expert Explains New IRS Guidance on Employee Social Security Payroll Tax Holiday
Written by: Brad Steele, J.D. Attention, clubs: on August 8, the United States President issued an executive order deferring a portion of your employees’ payroll taxes. This payroll tax holiday runs from September 1 to December 31, and only employees…
A Practical Approach to Ethical Dilemmas
Ethics are very well-known for not being black and white. In fact, it is all those muddling shades of grey that make this field of study such an enigma. It can be an especially tricky challenge in the workplace, where…
USALI Recording Guidance Part 3: Government Loan Assistance
As a result of the current economic situation, entities that own or lease hotels are eligible to apply for and receive a loan under a government assistance program. An example of this is the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in the…
USALI Guidance Part 2: Government-sponsored Wage Subsidies and Grants
During the Covid-19 global pandemic, some governments have decided to support industries with significant revenue losses and offer wage grants/subsidies to keep workers employed during the crisis. To help guide users, the USALI Global Finance Committee came together to collaborate and issue…
USALI Guidance: How to Record these Puzzling Covid-19 Scenarios
Currently, the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry, 11th Revised Edition (USALI) does not consider the possible alternative use of hotel assets during an international pandemic. To help guide hotels during this time, the USALI Global Finance Committee…
All About Cloud: Insights from a Cloud Strategist
When it comes to all things cloud (What exactly is cloud, anyway? Where does it exist? Why should it matter to me and my business?), it is often best to defer to the expertise of an enterprise cloud strategist like Jeremy…
Choose Your Learning: HFTP ProLinks Webinars
Written By: Susan Savkov Please raise your hand if you are busy. We are all probably raising our hands. There are many things vying for your attention right now in your job. Deadlines for your hotel budget, getting new technology…
Chapter Leadership Webinar: HFTP Chapter Recruiting Reboot
Recruiting strategies are evolving and associations need to keep up with the ever-changing times to attract engaged members. In order to bring in members, and especially reach millennials, associations need to be open to change and be able to market their association in…