2020+ Travel Tech, Hospitality, CoLiving & CoWorking Trends rolled-up, Pirates to Navy? 3 of 3

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By Seán Worker, Managing Director & Principal T5 Strategies & Glenn Haussman Founder & CEO, and famed #NoVacancy Podcaster  

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3 Blogs in 5 Days as part of “2020 Travel Tech, Accommodation, CoLiving & CoWorking Trends rolled-up – how is easy is that?” Blog series.

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1. 2020+ Travel Tech Influencers & Trends (published January 13, 2020)
2. Travel Experiences & other Head Scratchers (published January 15, 2020)
3. The acceleration and professionalisation of Alternative Accommodations, Co-Living and Co-Working

"The CoWorking & CoLiving spaces may be feeling the pressure to demonstrate a clear pathway to profit for continued investor interest"

According to gohobo, alternative accommodations are defined as “any type of accommodation that is not the status quo,” which can easily apply to Co-living and coworking business models as well. The mainstream status quo hotel brands and office space REITS have awoken as these new models have contested their dominance. The STATUS QUO challengers fall into the following categories;

·       Alternative accommodation - serviced apartment companies, homes, hostels and vacation rentals specialists such as #StayAlfred, #Domio, #Zeus, #Zoku, #onefineestay, #sonder ,#veeve, #generator, #Luxuryretreats, #redawning

·       CoLiving players include - #TheCollective, #clubquarters, #roommates, #common, #roam, #quarters

·       CoWorking leading brands include - #Impact Hub, #WeWork, #Knotel, #Make Office, #Spaces, #Central #Working and #TheClubhouse, #Regus and #IWG

Trends: The evolving frontier

The decade of awakening

According to Allwork the global market value of flex/CoWorking spaces is over $26bn. CoLiving is difficult to estimate, but PropTech estimates the CoLiving market potential in India alone to be more than $93bn, so add a multiplier to that for everywhere else. It’s enormous. The market is significant in both categories and as multifamily and residential property investors pivot to claim their share of the space. The new world of CoLiving and CoWorking is and will continue to professionalize as each fight for real estate around the world.

Recently the Editorial Team led by @PaulStevens at @ShortTermRentalz (part of IHM Media Group led by Founder and CEO #PiersBrown) delivered a comprehensive review of the trends facing the Alternate Accommodation space. Here are some of the highlights of the piece;

1-      Smart regulation - The alternative accommodation industry will implement broader public guidance on regulations to encourage responsible tourism. Most of this will be driven by associations such as ASAP led by #James Foice and CHPA led by #maryannpasi as well as influential companies.

2-      Property management companies consolidate and scale - It will be a race for overall dominance with mergers and acquisitions to be the next unicorns. #Vacasa was the first to cross the $1bn valuation in the space. Who might be the next?

3-      Unique supply is tougher to find - Demand for unique alternate accommodations and experiences is on the rise, but supply is being aggregated quickly, scarcity is a challenge.

According to #Guesty COO @Vered Raviv Schwarz, “Millennials are swaying towards short-term stays over buying homes because of a combined lack of affordability and the embracing of a digitally nomadic lifestyle. That means property managers will need to prioritise memorable experiences that trigger fear of missing out [FOMO], rather than physical products.”

4-      The hospitality, real estate and travel industries will maintain their convergence - The space is professionalising and consolidating with selective acquisitions such as Airbnb's purchase of HotelTonight, which sets the bar for others to follow.

Founder of #Lavanda & Professional Host Alliance, Guy Westlake noted: “Expect major global real estate players to broaden their strategies in order to better capitalise on local short-term rental demand and explore more diverse rental channels across their portfolios. Classic hotel chains, large and small, will look to diversify and gain a foothold in the rapidly growing alternative accommodations segment.”

5-      Industry-wide standardisation and quality control will be implemented - Airbnb has influenced so much change and set the narrative for regulators and homeowners– good and not so positive. However a 2019 Halloween shooting incident put the spotlight on the platform’s verification of guests and hosts, prompting CEO #Brian Chesky to pledge to verify all listings and ban “party houses” outright. This form of ranking and vetting surely must be the new standard as cities everywhere need to be progressive in their regulatory thinking.

 6-    CoLiving and CoWorking maturing (T5 Strategies view) – CoLiving is slowly being defined by such players as #The Collective led by #RezaMerchant which includes a combination of CoWorking and CoLiving options. Others such as #Roommates, #Common, #Spaces and #Roam have a variety of offerings that are setting the stage for a competitive 2020 and beyond.

In the CoWorking category, #WeWork is certainly the ICON of zealous growth while being confused as a Tech Company. Highly tech-enabled, you bet, but really a new wave property tenant. The possible real star may well be Mark Dixon of Regus fame who heads up IWG. He led the way in CoWorking spaces with #Regus and now is revolutionizing the space with purchases out of bankruptcy of The Clubhouse and possibly Central Working according to Bisnow’s# Mike Philips. Dixon is now consolidating the space and introducing Franchising as a next stage model.

  #AlexiKhajavi, Managing Director EMEA, Questex (IHIF, AHC Hotel Tec Conference & others www.questex.com ) observations about the pressure on cities and property developers need to adapt to the Trends may well hold true “The demand for flexible offices and even co-living is growing, driven by both the growth in the gig-economy as well as younger generations’ preference to for flexibility over ownership. These cultural and economic shifts will create more demand for flexible real estate assets and developers and operators will continue to improve their business models for achieving profitability for which the markets will reward with higher valuations.”

 #James Foice, CEO of the Association of Service Apartment Providers “ASAP” shared his insight of the space commented “Co-living is really banging on the door now with these short leases. It offers something akin to a modern, luxury, design-led student residence, but for professionals. And not only for those citizens struggling with the private rental sector and rising house prices – but also those looking for a new form of short-stay accommodation as well.”

T5’s view

Pirate, Navy or a bit of both?

As #MollyWood, the host of #MarketplaceTech noted recently, 2010 to 2019 was the decade of the Platform, Marketplace and App, while 2020 to 2030 is the decade of its requisite enabling software. Travel and accommodations traditionally lag in fixing known problems - look at the Global Distribution System “GDS” developed by the airlines nearly 40+ years ago. Sure, it’s been renovated, but there’s room for a full-scale demolition and reinvention (can someone fix this for goodness sake!). It’s worth noting that companies like #BCD, #Amadeus and #SABRE are tackling elements of this immense problem by developing tech- enabled gap products.

This decade will drive the most change that travel, traditional and alternate accommodation, CoLiving and CoWorking environments have ever seen. Software, AI, machine learning, and settlement products like Blockchain are poised to change how we think about currency and transparency.

Interestingly, coworking may be under threat as an abundance of new data suggests workplace expectations are changing, and employees are recoiling at the distraction open spaces cause. Be afraid of the return of “cubes”, “White Noise Tech” or more quiet rooms as employers assess the loss of productivity and culture erosion.

 This theory was recently noted by Harvard’s Ethan Bernstein and Stephen Turban after studying open plan office behavior concluding that “Rather than prompting increasingly vibrant face-to-face collaboration, open architecture appeared to trigger a natural human response to socially withdraw from officemates and interact instead over email and IM." However, the flexible nature of CoWorking and CoLiving spaces enables so much more while fostering communities with economical shared benefits such as gyms and food offerings.

Who said the entrepreneur is dead? We can see that X’ers, Z’s, Millennials and beyond like being founders and problem solvers. There’s an immense generational spread of super-focused leaders delivering real change.

However, some products are early in the development cycle. We believe significant consolidation and culling of the categories will occur during the next two to four years, which is a natural evolution in any category. Think tech around the year 2000. Pets.com anyone? The Big must get bigger and the Small will continue to innovate and be bought. The Middle may well be the endangered species. Investors are clearly signaling that they want to see a pathway to profit and an investment monetization plan, take note!

We’ll wrap up with comments from #Reid Hoffman (Founder-LinkedIn) which he shared on his Podcast “Master of Scale.”

 “I believe that every startup must transition from a band of roguish pirates into a disciplined navy. Get the timing wrong, and you’ll quickly be lost at sea.”

Wise words indeed.

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