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HVS International Hotel Development
Cost Survey 2004

CANADIAN LODGING OUTLOOK
September  2004 Year-to-Date


The Canadian Lodging Outlook is a joint monthly publication 
of Smith Travel Research and HVS International, 
Vancouver and Toronto, Canada
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By: Elaine Sahlins - HVS International - San Francisco

HVS International has tracked hotel construction costs throughout the United States since 1976. In 2001, the survey introduced data for a larger range of hotel products, setting new baseline ranges for six lodging types:

Economy/Budget Hotels, Midscale Hotels w/o F&B (without Food and Beverage), Extended-Stay Hotels, Midscale Hotels w/ F&B (with Food and Beverage), Full-Service Hotels, and Luxury Hotels and Independent Resorts. The 2004 hotel development survey reports updated per-room development costs for 2003.

Each year HVS International researches development costs from our database of actual hotel construction budgets, industry reports, and uniform franchise offering circulars. These sources provide the basis for our range of component cost per room. New project construction cost data collected each year may increase the range and/or impact the mean and median of the construction cost components. These development cost ranges are then adjusted each year based on data reflecting the trend in each component cost category.

The following tables set forth the overall results of the 2004 Hotel Development Cost Survey. Due to the wide variety of development projects and their diverse geographic locations, ranges of development costs per room for all of the other property-type categories overlap. Additional differences in site characteristics, density, height, construction materials, building and zoning codes, local labor markets, and other construction costs, account for the wide range of per-room costs in each category. As an example, extended-stay and limited-service hotels may be more expensive (on a per-room basis) to develop in downtown urban areas than full-service hotels in suburban or tertiary cities.

Even with all the different circumstances that affect hotel development across the different segments, it is interesting to note that the allocation of costs among the five different components tracked by HVS International result in consistent contribution ratios to total development cost. With the exception of the luxury and resort development category, all of the cost components show consistent trends in their distributions of costs. In the luxury and resort category, the different land and building and site improvements costs reflect the expense of procuring typically larger sites with high barriers to entry in urban and resort destinations.

It is important in this analysis to note that there is no uniform system of allocation for hotel development budgets. Hotel development costs are accounted for in numerous line items and categories. Individual accounting for specific projects can be affected by tax implications, underwriting requirements, and investment structures. For example, in a development project, furniture, fixture, and equipment installation and construction finish work can overlap.  Accounting for these items is not always the same from one project to another.

In addition, we recommend that users of the HVS International Development Cost Survey should consider the per-room amount in the individual cost categories only as a general guide for that category. The totals for low and high ranges in each cost categories do not add up to the high and low range of the sum of the categories. None of the data used in the survey showed a project that was either all at the low range of costs or all at the high range of costs. A property that has a high land cost may have lower construction costs and higher soft costs. The total costs shown in the following tables are from per-room budgets from hotel developments and are not a sum of the individual components.

All material used by HVS International for the development cost survey is provided on a confidential basis and is believed to be reliable. Data from individual sources is not disclosed.

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CANADIAN LODGING OUTLOOK
HVS INTERNATIONAL - CANADA
September 2004

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CANADIAN LODGING OUTLOOK
HVS INTERNATIONAL - CANADA
September 2004 Year-to-Date

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Contact:
Selina Lai
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June Results Are In And.......We�re Back! / Canadian Lodging Outlook - June 2004 Year-to-Date / Aug 2004
Hotel Life Expectancy / Canadian Lodging Outlook - March 2004 Year-to-Date / May 2004
European Hotel Transactions 2003 - Country Analysis / Canadian Lodging Outlook - February 2004 Year-to-Date / April 2004
2003 an Unbelievably Strong Year for US Hotel Sales / Canadian Lodging Outlook - December 2003 Year-to-Date / February 2004
2003 Canadian Hotel Transaction Survey / Canadian Lodging Outlook / January 2004
2002 Canadian Hotel Transaction Survey / Canadian Lodging Outlook / Feb 2003
How To Get The Best Sales Price; Positioning Your Hotel for Sell / Stephen Rushmore / Canadian Lodging Outlook - July 2003 YTD / September 2003
Lodging Market Impact of Hosting Olympic Winter Games; Will Salt Lake City Experience Apply to Vancouver and Whistler? / Canadian Lodging Outlook - June 2003 YTD / August 2003
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Separating the Hotel Looker From the Hotel Buyer / Stephen Rushmore / Canadian Lodging Outlook / Sept 2002
Making The Ideal Hotel Investment / Stephen Rushmore / Canadian Lodging Outlook / Aug 2002
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The Global Approach To Hotel Valuations / Canadian Lodging Outlook / June 2002
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Hotel Internet Distribution Channels / January 2002 Month-to-Date Results / Canadian Lodging Outlook / April 2002 
2001 Was a Great Year If You Were in Edmonton! / December 2001 Year-to-Date Results / Canadian Lodging Outlook / Feb 2002 
2001 Canadian Hotel Sales / Canadian Lodging Outlook / Jan 2002 
The Effect on Capitalization Rates and Discount Factors After September 11 / Canadian Lodging Outlook / Dec 2001 
So How Bad Was September for Canadian Hotels.. Pretty Bad! / Nov 2001
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Have Hotel Values in Canada Declined Since September 11th? You Bet They Have / The Canadian Lodging Outlook / August 2001 
The Popularity of Boutique Hotels / The Canadian Lodging Outlook / July 2001 
Rising Energy Costs Cause Concern in the Lodging Industry / The Canadian Lodging Outlook / June 2001 
Niagara Falls: With Supply Comes Demand / The Canadian Lodging Outlook / May 2001 
Does Supply Generate Demand? / The Canadian Lodging Outlook / May 2001 
Optimism With a Hint of Caution, As Analysts Predict a Softer Year for the Canadian Hotel Industry / Mar 2001 
Limited-Service Growth in Canada - Where�s it Going? / The Canadian Lodging Outlook / January 2001 
HVS Canada in Review - Year End 2000 / The Canadian Lodging Outlook / March 2001 
Canadian Lodging Outlook / May 2000 Year to Date Statistics / HVS International - Canada / July 2000 
The Rule of Thumb Method...Does It Still Hold Weight? / Elaine Sahlins - HVS / Oct 2000
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