swot anaylsis

Hotels Fanshawe continues to develop and seeks innovation under the vision of becoming one of Canada’s top 3 hotel brands with 40 chain hotels by 2018. To keep the quality up in all areas of business, the company continues to improve its services and facilities.

Fully equipped with comfortable and cozy guest rooms, various restaurants and banquet rooms and convenient facilities for fulfilling both business and leisure needs, Hotels Fanshawe vows ultimate satisfaction with premier service for your peace and pride.

The hotels are contemporary in style and provide a seamless link between business, entertainment and recreation. Extensive leisure facilities serve as a social hub for both hotel guests and the local communities. Hotels Fanshawe tradition of service excellence started with the opening of the Hotels Fanshawe Xenon, London, Ontario in 1971. The hotel’s 15 acres of landscaped gardens, beautifully appointed guest rooms and gracious British style set a new standard for hotel excellence, which to this day continues to guide the group’s design features.

Our Competitors

Marriott Hotels

Hilton Hotels

Temple Hotels

Hyatt Hotels

Millennium Hotels

Financial Statement

Risks

Our industry is highly competitive, which may impact our ability to compete successfully with other hotel properties for customers. We operate in markets that contain many competitors. Each of our hotel brands competes with major hotel chains in national and international venues.

Economic uncertainty could continue to impact our financial results and growth. Weak economic conditions in the U.S., the strength or continuation of recovery in countries that have experienced improved economic conditions, changes in oil prices and currency values, potential disruptions in the U.S. economy as a result of governmental action or inaction on the federal deficit, budget, and related issues.

Foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations will grow as the relative contribution of our non-U.S. operations increases.

Risks relating to natural or man-made disasters, contagious disease, terrorist activity, and war could reduce the demand for lodging, which may adversely affect our revenues. So called “Acts of God,” such as hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters.

Our business depends on the quality and reputation of our brands, and any deterioration in the quality or reputation of these brands could have an adverse impact on our market share, reputation, business, financial condition, or results of

While we are predominantly a manager and franchisor of hotel properties, our hotels depend on capital to buy, develop, and improve hotels, and our hotels may be unable to access capital when necessary. In order to fund new hotel investments, as well as refurbish and improve existing hotels, we must periodically spend money. The availability of funds for new investments and improvement of existing hotels depends in large measure on capital markets and liquidity factors, over which we can exert little control.

Failure to maintain the integrity of and protect internal or customer data could result in faulty business decisions, operational inefficiencies, and damage to our reputation and/or subject us to costs, fines, or lawsuits. Our businesses require collection and retention of large volumes of internal and customer data, including credit card numbers and other personally identifiable information of our customers in various information systems that we maintain and in those maintained by third parties with whom we contract to provide services, including in areas such as human resources outsourcing, website hosting, and various forms of electronic communications. We and third parties who provide services to us also maintain personally identifiable information about our employees. The integrity and protection of that customer, employee, and company data is critical to us. If that data is inaccurate or incomplete, we could make faulty decisions. Our customers and employees also have a high expectation that we and our service providers will adequately protect their personal information. The information, security, and privacy requirements imposed by governmental regulation and the requirements of the payment card industry are also increasingly demanding, in both the United States and other jurisdictions where we operate.

A failure to keep pace with developments in technology could impair our operations or competitive position. The lodging industry continues to demand the use of sophisticated technology and systems, including those used for our reservation, revenue management, and property management systems.