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Outlook Brightens for European Hotel Industry - Deloitte UK Reports

Private Equity Fund Of Funds After a tumultuous year, the hotel industry has reached the bottom of the cycle and market conditions are set to improve, according to experts speaking at the 15th Annual European Hotel Investment Conference held by Deloitte today in London. The recovery in hotel performance is expected to lead to increased investment activity within the sector, led by the private equity community and financial institutions.

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Curve Equity Exposed Fund The optimistic sentiment comes after a pre-conference poll of 240 hotel industry executives by Deloitte and TNS Hospitality and Leisure revealed that 53% of respondents expected London hotel revenues to return to the record highs of 2000 within three years, with developers and operators the most optimistic. Over 92% of respondents believed transatlantic travel would recover within the same time, with a significant majority of those surveyed believing the recovery would come following the return of consumer confidence.

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Equity Income Funds Marvin Rust, hospitality managing partner at Deloitte and conference chair, commented: "The hotel industry has suffered a series of major shocks, with war and SARS this year compounding the difficulties faced in 2001. However, the hotel industry has demonstrated before an ability to bounce back after difficult trading conditions. With consumer confidence showing signs of returning and hotel performance already starting to improve in the US and UK, the industry is on track to recover within a three-year timeframe, providing it suffers no further jolts.

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Private Investment In Public Nick van Marken, the partner responsible for hospitality advisory services at Deloitte, noted that despite economic volatility and challenging market conditions, investment in the European hotel sector is set for record levels in 2003: "There is clear evidence of a recovery being priced into recent transactions, with no evidence of discounting. Several recent single asset sales have set new records and there has been strong competition for portfolios, notably in the budget/economy sector. Buyers are diverse and include private equity, high net worth individuals, and institutions. Southern Europe and the UK have been a particular focus."

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Equity Mutual Funds Other key survey findings:

Birmingham Contact Equity 57% of respondents believe that hotel operators will increasingly split management from property ownership.
78% of respondents believe that there will be more public to private transactions than flotations.
58% of respondents think that a stronger Euro will encourage more Europeans to travel outside the Euro area.
46% of respondents believe that the high-spending/rate insensitive business traveller will return.

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