David Harper

Bio

David is the Head of Property Services for Leisure Property Services (LPS), advising on all aspects of hotel properties, including valuation, operator selection and acquisitions & disposals, all around the world. He is also Head of Property Services for Hotel Partners Africa, a bespoke hospitality consultancy that has worked in every country in Africa.

David has worked in 180+ countries around the world. David’s role in LPS is to provide the property advice, selling completed hotels & hotel sites, valuing hotels (and projects) and selecting the best operator for new developments. He has been involved in formulating governmental tourism strategy in a number of emerging markets all over the world, as well as helping to improve the impact of tourism policies in number of more established markets where the positive impacts from tourism were not being maximised.

David is a Fellow of the RICS (with over 25 years in property and the hotel industry. He is the author of Hotel Valuation for Investors, the best-selling book providing comprehensive advice on all aspects of hotel ownership. In addition, he published a second book “Hotels & Resorts; The Investor’s Guide”, that provides advice on the whole cycle of hotel ownership.

He also advises the RICS on hotel valuations and wrote the guidance on ISURV, a subscription service providing best practice advice for Chartered Surveyors the world over.

David is often used as an Expert Witness, having provided testimony all around the world on matters relating to valuation, operational efficacy and brokerage.

David has also helped set up "Hospitality beats Cancer", a team of industry professionals raising money for research to help defeat Cancer.