Bernard BIGOT
Associé Gérant, Bernard BIGOT Consultant
Consultant depuis de nombreuses années, à ce jour indépendant, avec un parcours de Senior Consultant dans des cabinets internationaux; spécialiste en industrie touristique et hôtelière, valorisation et transmission d'entreprises, assistance et développement de projets. Expertise confirmée dans les domaines d'activité d'origine, avec extension dans les secteurs immobiliers (logements, commercial, plates formes logistiques).
Développeur du système de construction Nord Américain "Amcor" (steel frame housing).
Expérience particulière du "terrain" du continent Africain, Afrique du Nord, Océanie, Ocean Indien et Caraïbes.
Amateur d'arts régionaux et ethniques,des cultures régionales; amateur de vins, avec une bonne connaissance des vins du Sud de la France (Cotes du Rhône, Provence, Coteaux Varois. Bon randonneur aimant la découverte de sites et paysages typiques, ainsi que la culture, arts et monuments locaux.
Pratique courante de l'anglais.
Bernard BIGOT is an independent consultant for tourism, hospitality industry, retail activities, malls and real estate, usually working for international and domestic private investors, international hotel chains or leisure groups, investment funds, hotel developers, real estate investors, banks, etc..
Prior to develop his own consultant activity, Bernard BIGOT served for a long time as Senior Consultant in the well known Horwath group in France, incorporated to one of the major international specialized hotel and tourism advisory services network in the world, and was a former consultant for Deloitte Touche Ross.
He got specific experience on hospitality industry, retail activities and real estate, in Europe and abroad.
He offers a wide range of services for real estate companies, hospitality industry and tourism activities, retails companies, to assist enterprises improve their competitiveness, profitability and efficiency as well as their choice of investment. The aspects of his assistance are multiple and mainly covering the following:
-Studies:
• Feasibility studies, Market studies
• Financial and operating projection
• Marketing appraisal
-Advisory Services:
• Management and operating audits
• Reporting system, organizational review
• Hotel & tourism web site advisory services
-Hotel, retails & Real Estate properties Valuation:
• Hotel & tourism, Real Estate properties valuation
• Advisory services for hotel/Real estate/retails acquisitions and sales
• Financial projections
-Hotel & Tourism/Real Estate/retails Development:
• Assistance for hotel and tourism developers, for hotel design and planning
• Marketing and financial appraisal of new projects
• Assistance and advisory services for investors, funding and operators prospecting
• Assistance and advisory services for Franchising Licence and Management Contract agreement.
• Project auditing (“Project Management Audit Contract”)
-Asset Management:
• Assistance, reporting, audit and advisory services for optimising the hotel operator performance on behalf of properties’ owners.
He was one of the first experts in France of the “Uniform System of Accounts for Hotels”.
He has extensive experience in the lodging industry and real estate including acquisition procedures, feasibility studies, development and technical assistance for new projects, hotel management advisory services, and a very well knowledge of international hotel chains., as well as major players of the retail sector.
Based on his experience in hospitality, real estate, retail and malls projects, and housing projects audit, he proposes also specific services for project auditing with the “Project Management Auditing Contract”, for any project in the world.
He extended his experience and advisory services for the last ten years to the housing sector, , feasibility studies and assistance for financing, as well as in France than abroad.

