{"id":22481,"date":"2020-04-08T07:15:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T07:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/uncategorized\/capex-capital-expenditure\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T09:22:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T09:22:08","slug":"capital-expenditure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/capital-expenditure","title":{"rendered":"Capex &#8211; Capital Expenditure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of Capital Expenditure in the <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hospitality-industry\">hospitality industry<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Capital Expenditure, also known as <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/capital-expenditure\">Capex<\/a>, refers to all capital improvement costs of owning hotels over an asset\u2019s life span, including such capital costs that prolong the economic life of the asset.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Capex thereby includes all money spent by a business on acquiring, maintaining or fixing assets such as land, buildings and equipment. Thereby capital expenditures can include everything from repairing a roof to building, purchasing a piece of equipment or building a brand new factory. Capital expenditure is often needed to undertake new projects or investments by the firm. This type of financial outlay is also made by companies to maintain or increase the scope of their <a title=\"Xotels - Hotel Operation Management Outsourcing Services\" href=\"\/en\/glossary\/hotel-operator\">hotel operations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>See Also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/capital-reserve\">Capital Reserve<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Synonyms:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Capital Expenditure<\/li>\n<li>Capex<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of Capital Expenditure in  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c","category-glossary"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Capex - Capital Expenditure Definition \/ Meaning - Xotels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Definition: Capex: Short for Capital Expenditure and refers to all capital improvement costs of owning hotels over an asset&#039;s life span, including such capital costs that prolong the economic life of the asset.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/capital-expenditure\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Capex - Capital Expenditure Definition \/ Meaning - Xotels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Definition: Capex: Short for Capital Expenditure and refers to all capital improvement costs of owning hotels over an asset&#039;s life span, including such capital costs that prolong the economic life of the asset.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/capital-expenditure\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Xotels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-08T07:15:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-23T09:22:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Patrick Landman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@xotels\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Patrick Landman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"BlogPosting\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/glossary\\\/capital-expenditure#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/glossary\\\/capital-expenditure\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Patrick Landman\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f51e882bd553ae1b905fc0214cdca6f5\"},\"headline\":\"Capex &#8211; 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