Ennismore Top Boss Sees Impact of Great Merging on Lifestyle Hotels and Co-Working – Skift Travel News

Access exclusive travel research, data insights, and surveys Access exclusive travel research, data insights, and surveys Free stories left to read Subscribe to Skift Pro to get unlimited access to stories like these Sean O’Neill, Skift September 20th, 2022 at 6:35 PM EDT Ennismore is one of the hottest hospitality groups in the world, and founder and co-CEO Sharan Pasricha anticipates coworking, food-and-beverage, and lifestyle lodging as a way for real estate partners to diversify their revenues. Sean O’Neill With Accor‘s backing, Ennismore has been building out lifestyle hotels and co-working spaces that have benefited from travelers increasingly blending their business and leisure trips, called the Great Merging. “Hotel owners like the diversification of revenue,” said Ennismore founder and co-CEO Sharan Pasricha on Tuesday at Skift Global Forum in New York City. “At our hotel [The Hoxton] in Southwark, you’ve got 40 percent of revenues coming from rooms, 30 percent from F&B [food and beverage], and the rest from coworking.” Accor and Ennismore last year created a lifestyle entity based in London and jointly led by Pasricha and Gaurav Bhushan, CEO of Accor’s lifestyle division. Ennismore’s 14-hotel and co-working brands include Hoxton, Gleneagles, SLS, Delano, Mondrian, and Working From. Ennismore entered co-working as a logical extension of guests and visitors working in the lobbies of its hotels. Its first attempt was offering a space with 800 desks adjacent to one of its hotel in the Southwark district of London. The average length of stay has been nine months. The space now has a waiting list of 400, Pasricha said, and a similar space in Chicago is “sold out.” Pasricha told Skift CEO Rafat Ali that a key ingredient to win customers is through food and beverage, and Ennismore “incubates” about 40 brand concepts made up of chefs, mixicologists, designers and other hospitality experts. While in June Accor announced it was in talks to sell an 11 percent stake in its Ennismore joint venture to a consortium of Qatari investors, the $195 million (€185 million) transaction hasn’t closed yet. One possible new segment for Ennismore in the future might be festivals, Pasricha hinted. Of all the world’s regions, Pasricha believes North America offers the biggest opportunity for the group. “It could become our biggest market,” Pasricha said. Get the latest news about hotels and short-term rentals delivered to your inbox once a week. Sean O’Neill, Skift September 20th, 2022 at 6:35 PM EDT Tags: accor, ennismore, lifestyle brands, lifestyle hotels, sgf2022, skift global forum Photo credit: Ennismore founder and co-CEO Sharan Pasricha spoke at Skift Global Forum in New York City on September 20, 2022. Source: Skift. Neil van Niekerk / Skift Subscribe to Skift Pro to get unlimited access to stories like these Essential industry news for hospitality and lodging executives in North America and Asia-Pacific. 1 of 3 Free Stories Read

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