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Hospitality & F&B news – weekly round up re: social media, operations and more!
An impressive LEED Platinum for a hotel, Napa’s Bardessono. I would like to take the time to point out that the incredibly complex reuse project from the NPS and ECB/Fort Baker Retreat Group, Cavallo
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
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.
In Response to “A Whisky Tale” & “Random Acts of Hotel Marketing”
It isn’t about convincing people that a product is exceptional. It’s being exceptional and allowing people to recognize that. That doesn’t take place with marketing or PR… that takes place from within operations and management. Run a business well.. *then* hand it to marketers.