Courses of Study 2020-2021 
    
    Nov 21, 2024  
Courses of Study 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Advanced Hotel Real Estate Certificate


In eCornell Certificate Programs 

COVID-19 presents challenges of historic proportions for the hotel industry. Yet the post-COVID environment may offer new opportunities for hotel industry professionals and investors to navigate.

Building on the coursework in the online Hotel Real Estate certificate program, this advanced live course is designed to help owners, operators, and lenders optimize real estate and intellectual property returns from individual assets while recognizing their place in a larger real estate portfolio.

Additionally, it enables these groups to use their interests in hotel real estate to strategically grow their businesses and prosper throughout the market and asset cycle. Participants will use applications from the front lines of real estate investment to examine capital markets, deal structuring, advanced debt and equity financing, and risk analysis. With examples drawn from an extensive range of international experience, this course has broad application across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and beyond.

Throughout this intensive program, you will explore the complexities of hotel real estate assets using real examples, case studies, and stories shared by your industry peers. You will have the opportunity to expand your industry network as you engage in robust live conversations with Cornell faculty and classmates to tackle the burning issues you’re facing now.

Key Takeaways


  • Master advanced investment decision models
  • Engage with concrete tools that allow you to optimize channel management, maintenance activities, renovations, and more
  • Practice using and negotiating management contracts
  • Extend the sell vs. hold approaches learned in the online certificate to advance strategies available during the holding period
  • Manage the risks inherent in lodging properties over the market cycle
  • Apply contemporary tools from capital markets, finance, and economics in a lodging context that reflects the current economic reality
  • Analyze the “cash flow waterfall” to a sponsor and money partner
  • Combine theoretical concepts with practical exercises and cases to practice wealth creation
  • Apply environmental best practices to facilities management to enhance value
  • Discover recent innovations in lodging capital markets and strategies for equity in a post-COVID environment
  • Implement risk analysis to minimize and transfer risk post COVID-19
  • Understand contemporary debt capital markets and leverage in a post-COVID environment

What You’ll Earn


  • Advanced Hotel Real Estate Certificate from Cornell Hotel School
  • 24 Professional Development Hours (2.4 CEUs)

Who Should Enroll


  • Hospitality professionals with financial or operational responsibility
  • Developers
  • Hotel owners
  • Lenders and investors involved in hospitality real estate projects

Total Investment


  • $3,200
  • 1/2 month to complete the course

How to Enroll


For more information on how to enroll, please visit www.ecornell.com.