Profile

Philip Wooller

Senior Director, Middle East & Africa
STR, a CoStar Group Company

Philip Wooller is the Senior Director for STR based in Dubai and is responsible for STR’s and CoStar’s expansion throughout Middle East & Africa. Philip is focused on continuing to improve the way STR provides the hotel industry with robust and insightful performance benchmarking that enables stakeholders to make better decisions. As well as developing the range and depth of hospitality data, Philip also works closely with Owners, Operators, Consultants, Investors, Sovereign Wealth Funds and Governments. Philip has spent many years in hospitality in Europe and the Middle East and his career combines the unique blend of senior positions in hotel operations and management, sales, marketing, and revenue management in a variety of branded and independent hotels. Travelling extensively, Philip has worked in several countries, across 3 continents and regularly speaks at major hospitality conferences around the world. He is also frequently interviewed for his insights on the hotel industry by news outlets such as Bloomberg, CNBC and the Financial Times and is a regular guest on Dubai’s Arabian Radio Network – The Business Breakfast.