Services / Hospitality Management

A management company, not a brochure.

Twenty-five years of hands-on hospitality operations across Greece, Costa Rica, Israel, Cyprus and Croatia. End-to-end, KPI-driven, and on the ground from day one.

Track record

Five markets. Five asset types.

The breadth of the portfolio is the point — it lets us tailor the operating model precisely to each property’s positioning, audience and revenue ceiling.

Markets we operate in

Greece

since 2008

Cyprus

since 2014

Israel

since 2001

Croatia

since 2017

Costa Rica

since 2019

Adriatic & Aegean

since seasonal

Asset types we manage

Business hotels

City-centre, corporate-led, year-round occupancy

Resort properties

Coastal, leisure-led, seasonality engineered

Boutique hotels

Sub-50 keys, design-led, premium ADR

Aparthotels

Long-stay engineered, hybrid revenue model

Short-term rental & Airbnb

OTA-led, dynamic pricing, fully serviced

Market intelligence

Data, plus the room next door.

Most operators read tourism data. We do too — but the difference is that we also run twenty-three properties in the same competitive sets, which means we know the on-the-ground story behind every line in the report.

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Public & OTA performance data

National tourism reports, OTA dashboards (Booking, Expedia, Airbnb), city-level RevPAR indices, flight booking curves and event calendars — read weekly, not annually.

— 02

Competitive set benchmarking

Live rate-shopping across each property’s compset on a daily cadence. We watch how competitors react to softness or shocks before we adjust ourselves.

— 03

First-party operating signal

Every property under management feeds the same forecasting engine — pickup curves, length-of-stay drift, channel mix, cancellation behaviour, walk-ins. The portfolio is its own benchmark.

— 04

Dynamic pricing & positioning

All four feeds collapse into a single pricing model per asset, run daily. We price each room-type separately, by date, by channel, by length-of-stay — never one rate for everyone.

Performance commitments

KPIs we commit to in writing.

A management agreement signed with us is a contract on numbers, not promises. Floor commitments below — actual annual targets set per property after diligence.

65%

Annual occupancy floor

Minimum committed occupancy across stabilised properties — the floor below which our management fee is reduced. Most assets clear 72%+ in year two.

8.5

Guest satisfaction floor

Aggregate score across Booking, Airbnb, Google and Tripadvisor — measured monthly, reported to ownership in the operating pack.

Secondary KPI · 01

RevPAR growth

Year-on-year RevPAR delta versus stabilised baseline and compset index.

Secondary KPI · 02

GOP optimisation

Gross operating profit as % of revenue, with a published cost-line ratchet.

Secondary KPI · 03

Staff retention

Department-head retention above 80% in year two — a leading indicator of operational consistency.

Secondary KPI · 04

Direct booking mix

Year-on-year improvement in direct-channel share — reducing OTA commission drag.

Day one

Hands-on from arrival.

We don’t arrive with a binder. We arrive with the people who’ll actually run your property — the housekeeping director, the revenue manager, the F&B lead. The binder follows. The results begin in week one.

The first ninety days are a listening period. We audit, benchmark, interview the team, and build the first operating plan. Changes don’t happen until we understand what’s already working.

Owned & operated properties

Twenty-three properties under direct management — our best source of live market intelligence.

Industry partnerships

Long-term relationships with OTA market managers, STR data providers, and regional tourism bodies.

Consulting assignments

Short-term advisory engagements that give us access to P&Ls and pipeline data across the region.

Asset transactions

Active in hotel acquisitions and disposals — we know what buyers and lenders are actually underwriting.

Why Highground

Expertise that shows in the numbers.

— 01

25+ years of operations

Across five countries, five asset types. No market surprise is a new one.

— 02

Multi-asset, multi-market

We run hotels, resorts, boutiques, aparthotels and STR portfolios — simultaneously. The cross-pollination is the point.

— 03

Data-driven by default

Our forecasting engine runs across twenty-three properties. Your asset benefits from the whole portfolio’s signal.

— 04

Operationally excellent

SOPs written from two decades of opening, running and repositioning properties. Not theory — procedure.

— 05

Immediate revenue impact

Most clients see RevPAR improvement in the first operating quarter. We track it and report it in writing.

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Strong industry network

OTA relationships, lender contacts, valuation advisors. We make introductions that move the P&L.

Ready to discuss a mandate?

We take on six to eight new properties per year. Introductory conversations are under NDA.