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Hospitality Headlines
Aug. 13, 2009
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Five Ways to Make the Competition Irrelevant
from Business Know-How
Is there an easy way to make the competition irrelevant? In an age with so much access to information, bombarded by advertisements and commercials, is it possible to keep the attention of your potential customers? What is the secret to help customers make an easy decision to buy? There is a secret formula that works for e-commerce, retail, bids and proposals. It is a simple formula that has worked since the days of bartering beads, beans and burrows. More

Hotel Web Sites Failing to Meet Expectations
from Hotel Interactive
The hotel industry is potentially losing out of millions of dollars in reservations because too many people are not looking and then booking. No, this is not a case of people using these sites for research only. Turns out technology is the main culprit here and its shooing away potential travel buyers in droves. More

Hotel Web Sites: How Would You Improve Them?
from USA TODAY
Earlier this week, Glenn Haussman - Hotel Interactive's editor-in-chief - wrote about how hotel chains are losing business because of inadequate websites. More

Three Major U.S. Hotel Companies Green Their Headquarters
from Reuters

Three of the largest U.S.-based hotel companies -- Hilton Hotels Corp., Wyndham Worldwide and Marriott International -- are now walking their green talk at their headquarters by making their home offices more eco-friendly. More

Maximize Performance Through Understanding
from Ehotelier

To be effective, leaders must not only manage their team but they must develop an understanding of every individual on that team. More

Why Hotel Debt and Values Will Be Much Different
from Hotel News Now

Based on very good work done by PKF recently, we see that on average net operating income for hotels declined by about 39 percent on a revenue decline of around 18.5 percent, according to Smith Travel Research (Read Who won in 2001?). This is by far the worst decline in history, and it shows the high operating leverage hotels have. More




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