Recent years have brought a lot of excitement back to the hospitality and travel industries. After a turbulent period of distress across the sectors and thousands of hotels either going out of business or being shuttered completely because of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the industry is back with a vengeance. As seen in the last 12 months, business people and leisure enthusiasts are traveling again and doing so in record amounts. This dramatic and welcome upturn in prosperity has created the opportunity for hoteliers to move ahead with expansions or much needed renovations to their spaces.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many hotel brands allowed for a pause on the property improvement plans required by all their franchisees to keep up with brand standards. This adjourn has since been lifted, and hotel owners are now required to bring their properties back into compliance, meaning the hospitality logistics sector is once again feeling optimistic and anticipating a busy outlook. Additionally, the introduction and mainstreaming of the home rental market has caused the industry to adapt as well. “What I find so amazing about the hospitality industry specifically is the resilience and adaptability to changes that come its way,” introduces Jeffrey Bulinski, President of BCI Worldwide. “Some brands have home rental options as a part of their portfolio, but nearly all have come up with creative ways to attract the traveling public. Some have also made public spaces a collaborative environment for gathering, while others have tried to make the travel experience more like that of a home away from home,” he explains. Back in the early 1980s, Bekins Distribution Systems (BDS) was founded in Las Vegas, as one of the first companies to focus primarily on hospitality logistics. As the Las Vegas strip continued to grow, so did BDS. By 1999, operations had expanded throughout North America, and BDS was rebranded as Bekins Commercial Installations (BCI) Worldwide. Finally, in 2010, the company opened its first Asian branch in Macau to complete the Sands Cotai Central, the largest one-time hospitality construction project ever completed in Asia.

BECOMING A GLOBAL LEADER

BCI Worldwide is the global leader in hospitality logistics and offers a wide range of value-added services for its customers in the hospitality, gaming, shipping, and construction industries. From freight forward management sister company called BMS Moving and Storage that owns and operates 17 state-of-the-art warehouses nationwide that it can call upon to expand its network even further. At present, BCI Worldwide owns offices in Asia (Macau, Hong Kong, and Singapore) with expansion plans to open an office in a market with the ultimate goal of helping provide clients with a dependable, steadfast solution, while still maintaining the company’s reliable standards of excellence.