I just found this. 1) Don’t know if it’s useful, but it’s interesting, 2) I am sure you guys can leverage this in some way, 3) I don’t know if this is supposed to be visible or not… so take advantage
HOTEL NEWS & SOCIAL MEDIA HAPPENINGS! A Really boring post with a lot of good links
FIRST: Daniel Craig at EHotelier is incredible funny. Well played sir… 2010 Trends. Hilarious for us dorky hotel types. And… anyone that wants to look at and figure out this abstract from
OPERATIONS! How do you deal with a barking dog?
A USA Today reporter had asked the question… what do you do when you have a complaint on property about a barking dog. Oh boy do I remember this… and it is a delicate matter because people typically
Yelp vs OpenTable reviews; Yelp is the Myspace of online reviews, but…..
So I know Yelp works in the San Francisco Bay Area. LA’s sprawl might hinder it down there, NY seems not to be catching on (at least slowly), and Canada and the UK seem as if they were failures, at least
Recession, Hotels, and where are we now? or “Cautious optimism, wreckless apprehension”
All this being told… I think the slide and panic is over. Our awful day at the beach is done, and what happens next is shaking out the blanket to clear the sand…. and we will see what is jarred loose from the hotel economic fabric. The problems that are still to come are not pro-longed troubles for hotels, it is simply the back end of the recession working itself out. Until then…. buckle up…. I doubt it will be too bumpy a drive home, but it’s gonna be a long ride.