Skift

APRIL 6, 2021

Skift Take: As hospitality and event professionals adjust to the new group business and meetings landscape — likely to consist of a mix of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events — getting digital marketing right is key to standing out to potential planners and buyers. Read the Complete Story On Skift.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 23, 2024

Mercure Manchester Piccadilly is driving ahead with an ambitious recruitment programme to hire 53 conference, events, and hotel staff as part of a major new vision, strategy, and investment for the business in 2024.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 11, 2024

At Radisson Hotels we have a range of venues and spaces across the UK and Ireland to host and facilitate these needs. Are you are looking to host a large number of people or just need space for some extra-large creative thinking? Whether it’s an awards ceremony or a conference, a convention or a product […]

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Palmer was soon apron-deep in projects in the area, applying his local-done-well aesthetic to hotels, opening Hotel Healdsburg (paired with his award-winning Dry Creek Kitchen), then sustainable h2hotel, and most recently Harmon Guest House. They are well-appointed, but not the most expensive in the market.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 5, 2024

From the wide view, the hotel industry should expect only a modest rise in demand (1.8 But from a narrower perspective—namely, looking at the hotels that accommodate the most business events—both demand growth and room-rate growth might well surpass those estimates. The result: Less negotiability for meetings.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 26, 2023

It’s a baffling trend, and one that hotel guests and meeting planners alike must contend with: The percentage of U.S. hotels experiencing a staffing shortage rose from 79 percent in January to 82 percent in May, according to a new report released by the American Hotel & Lodging Association.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 18, 2024

The Belfry Hotel & Resort is one of the UK’s most recognised meeting, conference and event venues. Located in the Midlands, close to Birmingham city centre, The Belfry offers meeting event spaces of all sizes accommodating upto 920 guests.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 21, 2018

Marriott, Hilton and IHG have announced reductions in group-booking commissions from 10 percent to 7 percent for their North American hotels, to take place over a period of time this year and next. Only time will tell what impact these reductions will have on these chains’ market share. Hotel ownership is very fragmented.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 21, 2023

The Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel has everything you need to get together and reconnect with clients, colleagues, friends and loved ones.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 24, 2023

Increased activity in the Americas sign of shift in hospitality industry trends What if we told you that across Latin America, the number of guest rooms in the hotel construction pipeline topped 90,000, a 2% increase over last year, led by the growing hospitality footprint in Mexico City? I wouldn’t call it organic growth.”

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Event Marketer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Elizabeth Money, SVP-Brand and Creative, BÉIS The BÉIS Hotel offered consumers the chance to interact with the brand’s products in a travel-themed setting. The BÉIS Hotel tour touched down for several weeks in each market, kicking off in L.A. in July and then heading to Vancouver in August.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 28, 2023

Groups360 announced this week that Choice Hotels worldwide will be offering online instant booking for group guest rooms through their proprietary GroupSync Marketplace. The release concludes: “The combination of these two capabilities changes the hotel sourcing process into an instant booking one.”

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Hilton President and CEO Christopher Nassetta maintains an active presence in the meetings market through stage appearances at events such as Professional Convention Management Association’s Convening Leaders conference , held last month in Columbus, Ohio. With a $33 million profit for Q4 completing a year where Hilton realized $1.3

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 7, 2023

Here’s an interesting conundrum: Hotel-room occupancy rates in the top 25 U.S. urban markets were 1.5 In the pre-Covid era, an occupancy rate of about 67 percent was considered the break-even point for hotel operations. Another factor in hotels’ profitability: Smaller labor staffs.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 5, 2022

A new report from AHLA shows that staffing challenges are nearly universal, affecting hotels in all price tiers. To help hotels fill the more than 130,000 open positions nationwide and raise awareness of the hospitality industry’s career pathways, the AHLA Foundation recently expanded its “A Place to Stay” advertising campaign.

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EventSource

JULY 20, 2023

Photographer 12 Reviews Windsor Arms Hotel Venues The Beauty Team Classic String Quart. Sly Fox Thornhill Market Floris. During the photo session, the couple beautifully showcased their love both inside and outside the magnificent Windsor Arms Hotel. Vendors Featured in this Article Recommended 515 Photo Co.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Does your hotel contract make it easy for a hotel to relocate your business? If your hotel contract was written before or during the Covid pandemic, you’d better watch your back. If the hotel cancels, the group now has to submit a list of its actual costs to move, with receipts to prove it. “If

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SevenEvents

JULY 19, 2022

as sustainability and corporate social responsibility are talked about more and more by our clients, one hotel chain stands out from the crowd. ilunion hotels which are part of the once group and the once foundation, are a brand with a heart. where can you find ilunion hotels? where can you find ilunion hotels?

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 31, 2022

Over the last two years, the economy extended-stay hotel market has been outperforming all other segments, said Geoff Ballotti, president and CEO of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts. A resilient market, the segments U.S. The project is scheduled to develop 50 Echo hotels.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Boutique hotels are opening their doors to these groups looking for creative spaces to enhance their interactions. Peace Space, Hotel Zeppelin. Viceroy Hotel Group , San Francisco: This collection of four urban chic properties offers unique spaces for energized brainstorming, team building, fun activations and meaningful networking.

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Event Marketer

MAY 5, 2021

For Freeform’s “Cruel Summer” premiere event on April 15, the network booked 80 hotel rooms at the Beverly Hilton hotel and invited talent, executive producers, press and influencers to watch the show on a giant screen from their balconies. As a first-to-market idea, the challenges were amplified.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 7, 2023

Knowland and Amadeus combined their data to provide a better understanding of meeting demand by market segment plus average meeting attendance, total event space used, and other elements. hotels over those 12 months. As for the specific industries holding meetings at hotels, here are the top seven: Education: 13.5

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Smart Meetings

MAY 25, 2023

Cvent has just published its list of Top Meeting Destinations and Top Meeting Hotels for 2023: Nashville and San Diego moving up to the second and third spots after Orlando. Fortunately, destinations and hotels alike have seen a dramatic comeback from pandemic lows as they benefitted from the pent-up demand for in-person experiences.”

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 13, 2023

If you can’t get the hotel concessions your stakeholders are expecting, it’s in your best interest to educate them about the current landscape. Let’s face it, being on either side of the table in hotel-contract negotiations is tough these days. Here’s how one meeting professional does it. Right now is not that time.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 22, 2024

At 14 square miles and 32,000 residents, the four hotel properties totaling 2,200 guest rooms located in Dana Point on the Pacific Ocean encompass more chocolate-on-pillow turn-down service per capita than cities ten times as large and pets are welcomed with open arms. Let’s take a closer look. More than 53,000 sq. That is pretty luxurious.

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EventSource

JUNE 22, 2022

If ever there was a time for boutique hotels to have their day in the sun, it’s in the light of the covid recovery. Intimate weddings and special events are all the rage these days, and few venues offer all the benefits and amenities of Toronto’s best boutique hotel venues. 1 Hotel Toronto The Sky Suite at the.

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Social Tables

MAY 27, 2022

Your hotel room layout doesn’t just determine where you place the furniture. A hotel room should make guests feel like they can go about their activities just like they would at home. In order to help you tackle the complexities of this process, we’ve created this hotel room layout guide. Go back to marketing basics.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 3, 2022

The meetings market will be central to the recovery of urban hotels. Here, two industry consultants dish to city-hotel sales executives on why securing meetings business is so critical, with numbers that could give negotiating insight to planners.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 28, 2021

“Since the turn of the year, we’ve been excited to see our group bookings pace pick up dramatically across the five properties,” said Ty Brassie, vice president of sales and marketing. With Salamander Hotels & Resorts , a luxury resort management company founded by Sheila Johnson , a Smart Women in Meetings Hall of Fame winner.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

markets have seen especially strong occupancy rates driven by group demand, while forward bookings through the end of 2023 are well above last year’s pace. Leading into Q4, the figures from hotel-industry research firm CoStar found that the second half of September was the strongest it has ever been for hotels in the top 25 U.S.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 21, 2023

Doug Klein Klein is vice president of marketing and communications for Lark Hotels , which operates 50 properties in New England and California. Virgin Islands named Mojica director of sales and marketing. Dowling will lead communication efforts with PTG’s Preferred Hotels & Resorts, Beyond Green and PTG Consulting brands.

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Planning Pod

JANUARY 10, 2021

Hotel sales, banquet and private event managers know what it’s like to work under pressure. Olivia Isquith, Event Manager at Hotel Salem (part of the Lark Hotels group), knows this well, having worked in hotels that didn’t have a smooth system for managing event bookings and sales. Planning Pod can help.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

The UK’s largest independent hotel group has started the new year with a bang – announcing major plans to expand and renovate its existing portfolio in 2024. For more information on Bespoke Hotels and to keep informed on its forthcoming development projects, please visit [link].

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eventplanner

JUNE 3, 2023

Hotel chain Fletcher Hotels chooses eventplanner.net for the marketing of more than 50 of its event locations in the Netherlands. The hotel chain distinguishes itself with authentic hotel restaurants that are often located in buildings rich in history.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 29, 2022

The past few years saw over 70% of hotel staff in the United States and United Kingdom furloughed or laid off while hotels were closed. If hotels are to meet this demand, they need to incentivize people to work for them. Hotels have started offering remote and hybrid jobs to draw more people to a position. will be remote.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 9, 2021

A veteran industry analyst sees positive trends ahead, including lots of recovery capital in the market to shore up ailing properties. But the multi-million-dollar question is this: Can meetings-focused hotels hold on that long? And there is a lot of recovery capital out there that’s waiting to be deployed.”.

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Social Tables

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

How can a large hotel brand position itself to appeal to that market? Marriott’s hotel marketing is succeeding in doing just that. So how does a hotel brand tap into that? Sometimes hotel marketing is about balance, or even what not to do. So, I say, post away. We love it.”. The Marriott app.

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