Get to know us

A warm welcome to Pearl Hospitality – the trusted Advisory and Management Company to the worlds leading businesses, governments, and institutions.

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gray concrete wall inside building

We are a specialized hospitality advisory firm offering Clients unsurpassed knowledge and expertise in the field of luxury hotels & resorts, destination wellness resorts, destination spas, and food & beverage. Our relentless focus on these four segments of hospitality has enabled us to become experts in these specialized asset classes.

Our end goal is straightforward – to enable growth for our Clients. We deliver this by merging advanced financial analytics with strategic planning. As one of the pioneers of Yield Management modeling techniques, every decision and recommendation our advisors render is based on the ultimate economic value for our Clients.

As a specialized hospitality firm, we offer a breadth of services ranging from Advisory, Asset Management and Operatorship. This translates into two advantages for our Clients; First, we offer comprehensive hospitality solutions from site selection through to operations; Second, our Clients benefit from our multi-faceted background as consultants, operators, owners, and asset managers.

Predict the future by creating it

Drive Innovation

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blue and white striped round textile
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an abstract photograph of a curved wall
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low-angle photography of blue glass walled building during daytime

Our mission

Our mission is to help our clients make distinctive, lasting, and substantial improvements in their performance and to build a great firm that attracts, develops, excites, and retains exceptional people. Simply said, we believe we will be successful if our clients are successful.

Solving the hardest problems requires the best people. We think that the best people will be drawn to the opportunity to work on the hardest problems. We build our firm around that belief. These two parts of our mission reinforce each other and make our firm strong and enduring.

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silhouette of person in yoga post on top of cliff during sunset

Our team

It has never been our objective to become the biggest at what we do; we always preferred to stay focused and nimble. Our managed expansion was the result of listening to the longer-term needs of our clients, developing breakthrough solutions, and deploying the right resources for precision execution.

The firm was set up by Basel Shammout and supported by an expert team of specialists.

Basel J. Shammout

Founder / CEO

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woman in black blazer with brown hair
Jenny Bartels

Executive office manager

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woman wearing white dress shirt
Simone Weber

Finance

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woman smiling wearing denim jacket
Ingeborg Kaas

sustainability

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Absolutely thrilled with there services! Outstanding knowledge, exceptional service, and overall one of the finest in the advisory space.

Clarice Turner

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woman wearing black crew-neck shirt

Pearl Hospitality has been instrumental to our success. They guided us from a small family operation to realising our global footprint.

Brian Moten

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man standing near balcony
★★★★★
★★★★★