Bruce Goodwin has over twenty-four years of consulting experience and fifteen years of direct management experience. His operations background encompasses a broad range of local-property and regional management experience.

Mr. Goodwin has extensive experience with hotels and resorts in the Southwest United States as well as throughout Latin America. Prior to establishing Goodwin & Associates, Mr. Goodwin served as a Director for Horwath Consulting International, responsible for consulting in the Southwest United States and the Republic of Mexico.

His areas of consulting specialization and experience include:

Development analyses for a broad range of real estate projects, including various types of hotels, commercial office, retail, resort residential (condominiums and fractionals) and timeshare developments;
Appraisal and valuation services on a variety of income-producing real estate uses, including commercial office buildings, retail centers, marinas, as well as hotels and resorts in the U.S. and Latin America;
Performance, productivity and internal control analyses for income producing real estate;
Financial analyses involving development, acquisition, syndication and limited partnership formation;
Receiverships, asset management and bankruptcy filings for a variety of real estate assets, including local and regional retail centers, apartment complexes, industrial properties as well as hotels and resorts; and
Litigation support services, including expert testimony and arbitration involving hotel and resort development, management operations and contracts. Accepted as a member of the Institute for Conflict Management’s (ICM) panels for arbitration, mediation and issue review boards

Mr. Goodwin has performed assignments for major financial institutions including: GE Capital, Goldman Sachs, Strategic Hotel Capital, Deutsche Bank/Bankers Trust, Secured Capital, Wells Fargo Bank, B of A, Citigroup and CIBC.

Hotel chain clients include: Starwood (Westin & Sheraton), Wyndham, Grupo Situr, Hoteles Camino Real, Copamex Turismo, Hoteles Optima, Quinta Real, Hoteles Maeva, Sol Melia, Marriott International, InterContinental (Holiday Inns & InterContinental), Hoteles Presidente, Hoteles Emporio, Hilton Hotels, and Hyatt.

Mr. Goodwin has served as a court-appointed receiver for various real estate projects, including several hotels, apartment complexes, and a one-million-square foot retail shopping mall. He has also completed arbitration, mediation and issue review board certification programs with the Institute for Conflict Management. He has served as an arbitrator in hotel matters.

Mr. Goodwin has performed consulting and valuation assignments throughout the Republic of Mexico, including the three largest industrial cities (Mexico, Monterrey, Guadalajara), virtually all nine of the primary resort locations (FONATUR and Traditional destinations), and over three dozen interior and border cities.

Mr. Goodwin has performed consulting engagements in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama and Peru.

Goodwin & Associates, in conjunction with Smith Travel Research, produces "Panorama Hotelero" monthly.. "Panorama Hotelero" presents occupancy, average daily room rate and RevPAR data for approximately 185 hotels with nearly 50,000 rooms. “Panorama Hotelero” is in its eleventh year of production.

Mr. Goodwin has been a guest speaker at numerous professional conferences, including those sponsored by American Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS- formerly associated with UCLA), The Lodging Conference (Phoenix), NYU Lodging Investment Conference, Urban Land Institute-Resort and Mexico councils, Caribbean Tourism & Hotel Investment Conference.

Mr. Goodwin, have again become a member of the San Diego Hotel & Motel Association Board of Directors.

Bruce Goodwin
received his B.A. degree from Michigan State University’s School of Hotel, Restaurant & Institutional Management. He is past President and Chairman Emeritus of the International Society of Hospitality Consultants (ISHC).

Mr. Goodwin
speaks English and Spanish.