...Mary Ho prepared this Case under the supervision of Prof. Su Han Chan and Prof. Ko Wang for class discussion. This Case is not intended to show effective or ineffective handling of decision or business processes. This case is part of a project funded by a teaching development grant from the University Grants Committee (UGC) of Hong Kong. © 2001 by The Asia Case Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means - electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise (including the Internet) - without the permission of The University of Hong Kong. Ref. 01/108C 1 KO WANG SU HAN CHAN PHUKET BEACH HOTEL: VALUING MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE CAPITAL PROJECTS Mike Campbell, General Manager of Phuket Beach Hotel, paced his office and considered an offer made by Planet Karaoke Pub. Planet Karaoke Pub was expanding fast in Thailand. It was looking for a venue in Patong beach area for setting up another outlet, and was eyeing an unused space owned by the Hotel. At this point, the space was located on the second floor of the main building and was very much under-utilised. It was reserved for the construction of an alley linking to a new wing for the hotel, which would not be completed until two years later. Planet Karaoke Pub offered to sign a four-year lease agreement with the hotel for renting part of the unused space. It proposed to pay: • a monthly rental fee of 170,000 baht for the...
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...Additionally, the guaranteed lease payments indicate a consistent cash flow for the hotel regardless of the success of the pub venture. In comparison, depreciation is also lower from a leasing standpoint due to the lower initial capital expenditure. As the main responsibility of running the business is outsourced to the leasing company, this initiative also incurs less annual costs in terms of raw materials needed to run the business in addition to less operating expenses for the hotel. This situation proves to be a very safe investment for the hotel, as they are taking on minimal costs and have a guaranteed income of capital through the lease payments. Building This initiative proves to be more risky than leasing; nonetheless offers a higher return. The initial capital expenditure is double that of leasing the space, however it does give the hotel full earnings of all future revenue. While incurring additional raw material and operating costs throughout the year, this initiative does prove to be more expensive with a higher degree of labor required. That being said, if run properly the venture is projected to turn a much higher profit when compared with the leasing option. Operating cash flows are projected to double that of the leasing option in the first year alone as well as continue to increase as the years go on. In addition to the immediate profit, by building a business, the hotel will not only has full say over all aspects of the pub, but will also be able to benefit...
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...HKU774 CATHY ENZ ALI FARHOOMAND BANYAN TREE: SUSTAINABILITY OF A BRAND DURING RAPID GLOBAL EXPANSION Within the next five years, if we play our expansion card right and we manage our growth properly, we have a reasonable, credible opportunity to become one of the top two or three dominant players in a global space which is very niche but nevertheless very global. - K.P. Ho, CEO of Banyan Tree Holdings Limited1 On 14 August 2006, exactly two months after its initial public offering (“IPO”), Banyan Tree Holdings Limited announced second-quarter results for the period ending on 30 June. Revenue had more than doubled to S$71.42 million, largely due to recovery following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The company felt that this was only the beginning, however, and had earmarked part of the IPO proceeds to finance an ambitious expansion plan. At the core of its business development plan was a proposal to open 21 new resorts3 over four years that would span non-Asian territories from Greece to Mexico. Banyan Tree CEO Ho Kwon Ping’s vision was to “string a necklace [of Banyan Tree properties] around the world”. The Asian Financial Crisis of 1997, the SARS crisis of 2003 and the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 had taken their toll on the travel and tourism industry [see Exhibit 1]. Although recovery was on the horizon, Ho understood the need to diversify risks across geographical regions and the IPO provided the finances to venture out of familiar territory. Two...
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...Using Case Studies in Real Estate and Finance Courses By Su Han Chan Department of Real Estate The Preliminaries Setting expectations Focus is on decision making Requires judgment No “right” answers Setting ground rules The student contract (4Ps) Knowing your participants Selecting cases and readings Using a mix of short (“breather”) and long cases Assigning a term project Case seminar series_Su H Chan A Short Case Phuket Beach Hotel: Valuing Mutually Exclusive Capital Projects* (4 pages) Synopsis Phuket Beach Hotel has an opportunity to lease its underutilized space to a karaoke pub and earn a rental income. Alternatively, the hotel could develop the unused space and create its own pub. The general manager of the hotel must decide which of the two capital projects to recommend to the hotel owners. This case presents sufficient information to build cash flow forecasts for each project and to rank the mutually exclusive projects using various evaluation criteria. *The case is available from HBSP.com Case seminar series_Su H Chan Using the case Undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels Exposes students to a wide range of capital budgeting issues Questions built into the case Student group presentations (2 teams presenting the same case) Class members evaluate team presentations Instructor debriefs case Lessons learned Evaluator__Please write your name on the back__________________ Group ___________________________ Grading Checklist for...
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...There is a growing environmental awareness amongst stakeholders, individuals and communities in Thailand. This increase in knowledge and awareness has been, by and large, the result of campaigns and education programmes run by major public interest groups concerned with the environment. These include non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at the international, regional and national levels, as well as groups concerned with the empowerment of marginalized sections of society, such as women, indigenous peoples, and youth groups, and other community based organizations. . Major public interest groups are increasingly contributing efforts towards sustainable development through participation, advocacy, demonstration projects, monitoring and research, as well as cooperation and networking with other NGOs and government departments. This chapter reviews the contributions made by such groups to the promotion of environmental knowledge, awareness and action in the region. Traditionally, community based organizations played an important role in the management of common property resources such as forests and fisheries in the Asian and Pacific Region. Although over successive years their role was reduced by governments in some countries, recent years have seen a re-emergence of community involvement and the development and growth of NGOs, youth, women and indigenous people’s groups and associations of farmers and businessmen. NGOs have, in particular, played an important role in raising...
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...Phuket Beach Hotel Case Analysis Phuket Beach Hotels (PBH) management has been approached by Planet Karaoke Pub (PKP) to lease a vacant space within the hotel. Management is intrigued by the offer because the space is currently not being used. Due to the recent success of karaoke pubs management is also considering creating a pub which they would call Beach Karaoke Pub (BKP). Finally, there is a possibility that the best option will be to seek an entirely different user type where the Karaoke Pub crowd may alienate 25% of the hotel patrons with young children. This paper seeks to use capital budgeting analysis tools; net present value, internal rate of return, equivalent annual annuity and profitability index to definitively say which project has the best financial viability. The data used to generate the key decision metrics were provided by PBH management and are as follows. Planet Karaoke Pub -Four-year lease, monthly 170,000.00 baht for the first 2 years and 5% increase 2 additional years -Upfront costs to PBH range between 770,000.00 baht and 1,000,000.00 baht with zero salvage -Pro-rata allocation of the common area maintenance fee is 55,000 baht -10,000.00 baht will be charged for common area maintenance fees Beach Karaoke Pub -Up-front investment will range between 800,000.00 baht and 1,200,000.00 baht -Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment will cost 900,000.00 baht -Estimated total sales in the first year are 4...
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...DHR5018 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT INDIVIDUAL-BASED ASSIGNMENT (15%) Purpose The purpose of the mini casesand video linksis to expose students to various real-life HR scenarios that occur in workplaces and to give them a practice to address theHR issues raised. Mini Case 1: Jack Nelson’s Problem As a new member of the board of directors for a local bank, Jack Nelson was being introduced to all employees in the home office. When he was introduced to Ruth Johnson, he was curious about her work and asked her what her machine did. Johnson replied that she really did not know what the machine was called or what it did. She explained that she had only been working there for two months. She did, however, know precisely how to operate the machine. According to her supervisor, she was an excellent employee. At one of the branch offices, the supervisor in charge spoke to Nelson confidentially, telling him that “something was wrong,” but she did not know what. For one thing, she explained, employee turnover was too high, and no sooner had one employee been put on the job than another one resigned. With customers to see and loans to be made, she continued, she had little time to work with the new employees as they came and went. All branch supervisors hired their own employees without communication with the head office or other branches. When an opening developed, the supervisor tried to find a suitable employee to replace the worker who had quit. After touring the 22 branches...
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...Case Study Presented to Associate Prof. Guntalee Ruenrom, Ph.D. & Ajarn Yayus Mak Prepared by MBA English Program #3 Kotchaphan | Laochareon | 518 27814 26 | Ratanapong | Sanpote | 518 29421 26 | Thanan | Sastarasadhit | 518 28530 26 | Karit | Yuvaboon | 518 28094 26 | For the Course of 2605691 Seminar in Marketing Management Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy Chulalongkorn University QUESTION 1 : Identify the primary issues in the case. Between 1997 and 2005 a series of crisis severely challenged the hotel industry and stake holders, especially in asia region, which never before have so many issues that causes a crisis that has lasted that long With majority of properties located in asia, Banyan tree was hit hard by the crisis causing poor profitability in 2005. Foreseeing the risk of focusing its core operation in one region, Mr.Ho, CEO of Banyan tree initiates the expansion plan of banyan tree to open new properties in new location in order to minimize the risks. The IPO was executed to increase the capital for this expansion. However, the key issue of this aggressive expansion in how banyan tree can maintain its respective qualities across the chain due to: * The limitation of manpower and infrastructure to consistently deliver banyan Tree’s experience * The danger of bran dilution in case of banyan tree expands into territories that may have a negative impact on the brand. Its very important that...
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...Boutique Hotel? In recent years, boutique hotels have emerged as the most liked guest accommodation all over the world. But the ironic fact here is that no one exactly knows what is the real meaning of the term 'boutique' or why this term is used in connection with hotels and what are the benefits of staying in this type of hotels. But the one thing which is very clear among the hoteliers is the fact that they know exactly what qualities or what characteristics will make their hotel a boutique hotel. The first quality is none other than size of the hotel. It is often questioned as to how many rooms should be there in a boutique hotel? As per the connoisseurs of this business, a hotel with not more than 100 rooms can be pompously called a boutique hotel. The second quality or characteristic is the atmosphere of that hotel. It is resolutely believed that atmosphere is a very significant factor for any boutique hotel. Here, the definition of atmosphere is the sum of all facilities and ethereal services that make a stay, an outstanding one. When used in context of boutique hotels, the term atmosphere comprise of decor, ambience, personalized service, mind-set of hotel staff and most importantly a know-how of how these all can combine and create a sense of closeness among the guests which will further add to the popularity of any hotel. As per "Boutique Hotels International", an atmosphere filled with sense of intimacy is a must have factor for boutique hotels without which...
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...CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE INTRODUCTION Rationale of the study One of the great challenges of progressing cities in the Philippines is the need to preserve and conserve its heritage. Cebu is one of the known cities that posseses a rich culture and historical landmarks that serves as a potent symbol of National Identity has faced the same challenges. With the emergence of commercial buildings and growth of population in the City, the maintenance and conservation of Heritage is more likely needed. Altering existing buildings for a new function is not a new phenomenon. Working with the existing buildings, repairing and restoring them for continued use has become a creative and fascinating challenge within the architectural descipline. The process of wholeheartedly altering a building is often called “ Adaptive Re-use”. It is known that adaptive re-use helps extend the life of Historical buildings and prevents them from becoming foresaken and derilict. The Gotiaoco building which is situated at the M.C Briones Ave. Behind Cebu City hall is one of the significant architectural building that is currently proprosed to be reuse as a Chinese Heritage Museum under the supervision of Sugbu Chinese Heritage Museum Inc.. In contemporary conservation theory and practice, adaptive re-use is considered to be an important strategy towards conservation of cultural heritage. It preserves buildings by changing outdated functions into new uses to meet contemporary demand. However...
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...Valuation of Potential Karaoke Pub Projects There are two mutually exclusive capital improvement projects under consideration: lease under-utilized space to an unrelated third party, Planet Karaoke Pub, or invest greater capital to open and manage your own nightclub, Beach Karaoke Pub. Using the predominant valuation methods, we have analyzed the relevant quantitative and qualitative data over their useful lives. In our assessment, we discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each approach as well as their relative weights in determining the financial viability of each project. There are three underlying assumptions driving our calculations: 1) a 10.75% discount rate, 2) a 10% guest room erosion rate, and 3) the omission of irrelevant staffing costs (16% of sales) due to long-term salary contracts. We have determined that while both options are profitable, Beach is more so. However, before a final decision is made, more research into the qualitative aspects of these undertakings needs to be done; community footprint impacts and room revenue erosion rates must also be examined in more detail. In order to assess the viability of each project we must first determine the initial outlays and the relevant cash flows, assigning an appropriate discount rate based on the weighted average cost of capital. Taking the weight of equity (75%), the cost of equity (12%), the cost of debt (10%) and the corporate tax rate (30%), we have calculated and recommend a discount rate of 10.75%...
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...Case 10:Phuket Beach Hotel VALUING MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE CAPITAL PROJECTS Case Overview Planet Karaoke Pub Project Lives Monthly rental (5% increment for 3rd and 4th year) 4 years 170, 000 (THB) 770, 000 to 1, 000, 000 (THB) 55, 000 (THB) Up front renovation cost (Depreciated over the life of project - straight line method with zero salvage value) Overhead expenses Repair and maintenance cost 10, 000 (THB) / year Case Overview Beach Karaoke Pub Project Lives Up front investment (Equaled depreciation) 6 years 800, 000 to 1,200 000 (THB) 900, 000 (THB) 4, 672, 000 (THB) Other investment (Equipment and chairs) (Depreciated over the life of project - straight line method with zero salvage value) Estimated total sales (1st year) (5% average growth per annum) Operating costs: Food and beverage costs Salaries Other operating costs 25% of sales 16% of sales 22% of sales Repair and maintenance cost 10, 000 (THB) / year Case Overview Beach Karaoke Pub Capital structure (75% equity & 25% debt) Debt – loan from Siam Commercial Bank – interest rate 10% Hotel owners’ cost of equity - 12% Corporate tax rate – 30% Future profits – discounted 5% Risk factor – 25% Conservatism- risk factor (consideration due to the negative factor for pub) Question 1 Assess the economic benefits associated with each of the capital projects. What is the initial outlay? What are the incremental cash flows over the life of the project...
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...regarded as an option to operate sustain the economy and cash flows .While investigating these aspects of integrated destinations, it is also very important to consider the standard features and benefits. The information used will depend consisting of online website and individual knowledge. The intention of society dissection is to specify and provide ways to enhance the life of the citizens and the socio-economic requirements of the community (Board of Investment, 2009). Gaming areas, restaurant, hotels, retail shopping and other tourist attractions are consisting to be one: Integrated resort. When the term “IR” appears, that means gambling or casino would refer to gaming area exclusively. Das (2011) believed that IR is expected to advantage the economy from the investment, construction spending, draw in more tourists and support the services industry of the island economy. Integrated destination is features about world-class accommodation, bar, conventional facilities, restaurants, hotels, shopping...
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...SEA Economy Case Study – Class B Group Members: Domenic Kortmann, Jenny Hert, Mariella Azizian, Nils Knickenberg, Gloria Neuwinger Topic: Tourism Industry in Thailand Introduction Thailand is a wondrous kingdom, featuring Buddhist temples, exotic wildlife, and spectacular islands. Along with a fascinating history and a unique culture that includes delectable Thai food and massage, Thailand features a modern capital city, and friendly people who optimize Thailand’s “land of smiles” reputation. Thailand has rich sources for travelling and therefore deeply attracts people from all over the world. Each year, around 11 million visitors go there. Actually, tourism in Thailand plays an important role in the Thai economic structure and even in the whole Thai society, and it has a profound effect on Thai economy. This study concerns the background information of tourism in Thailand and will analysis certain problems that come along with it. Tourism is becoming the pillar industry in Thailand. In the last 20 years, tourism in Thailand developed rapidly. According to a survey done by ESCAP,” domestic tourism was able to contribute 29695 million baht to GDP, which was 3.7 per cent of total GDP (Gross Domestic Product) in 1983.” According to another statistic, in 2009, tourism was contributing 14.7 % to Thai GDP. According to the government’s data, in 2010, Thailand attracted 15.8 million tourists, and it generated about 19 billion dollars of revenue. Sisdivachr Chevaratanaporn,...
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...Financial Management. EBS ML. 4th course students. Case study. Phuket Beach Hotel. Valuing Mutually Exclusive Capital Projects. Questions 1. Please asses the economic benefits associated with each of the capital project. What is Initial Outlay? What are the incremental cash flows over the life of the project? What is an appropriate discount rate to use for discounting the cash flows of the project? SN 1 and SN 2 - 40% 2. Are the project comparable based on the standard NPV measure, given that they have unequal lives? What adjustment or alternative method is required in comparing such project? - 10% SN 3 3. How sensitive is your ranking to changes in the discount rate? What other "key value drivers" would affect the attractiveness of the project like patronage factor; amount of upfront investment; cost of capital, any of the key value drivers? Please estimate the sensitivity of your result to a change in any of the key value drivers. - SN 4 - 30% 4. Which project should the hotel undertake? Why - 10 % In case of Hotel, I would like to recommend to lease the Bar. First of all because of Payback period is much shorter ib both scenarios (discounted and nondiscounted).secondly Profitability ratio is also much higher, due to the fact that less investments are required to undertake the project. However the main draw back is EAA which is segnificantly lower as well as ROI. In conclusion, I may say that, in short prospective Lease is option is optimal, however in long term build...
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