Hotel Industry News Archive for 2009

10Best Solutions was chosen by Bloomington, MN Convention and Visitors Bureau to be the destination content provider for their new, rebuilt and redesigned website that launched in June.

In the best of all possible worlds, people would be rational and compassionate. As this is Planet Earth, a few people walk amongst us who live slightly south of this ideal. Anyone working in private service or the luxury hotel market can probably tell a tale or two about the wealthy they have served, either about how incredibly kind they were, or how challenging.

Wyndham Hotel Group, the world's largest hotel company with approximately 7,000 hotels and 11 brands, today announced the signing of the company's first management agreements in Bangkok, Thailand.

Pineapple Hospitality now offers Sonoma Soap Company's eco-friendly amenities in daily and bulk gallon-sizes.

VFM Leonardo, the leader in online visual content distribution for hotels, has launched a new episode of VTV - Visual Content Decisions - What? How Much? Why? featuring David Attardi, Director of E-Commerce, B.F. Saul. In this episode, David discusses the importance of visual content as part of any hotel's coordinated media front.

Following an Extensive Renovation, Hotel National Joins Starwood's The Luxury Collection, Marking the Hotel Brand's Landmark Debut in Russia

By now most hotels have long recognized the potential of outbound e-mail as a pro-active marketing and CRM tool and have actualized their potential in that area. However too many hotels still overlook their e-mail in-box as being a distribution channel worthy of attention. While we might prefer that guest's book online or contact us via telephone, websites can be confusing, phone lines sometimes ring busy, and for whatever reason many guests prefer to just click over an e-mail to the info@...' or 'Sales@... address posted at your hotel's website, email blast, or printed in marketing collateral or advertisements.

You are on a city bus, train or a plane going somewhere and you strike up a conversation with the person next to you. You find out they plan a major meeting at least once a year that you would like to have at your hotel. You tell them this and you get the business. Is there anyone out there reading this that thinks this is highly unethical? Besides me?

Experts predict that hotels, hit hard by the recession, will suffer longer than other industries

The 484-room hotel, currently Sheraton Suzhou Hotel and Towers, will be rebranded as Pan Pacific Suzhou in January 2010. It is owned and will be managed by Pan Pacific Hotels Group, which also opened Pan Pacific Xiamen in August this year.