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Started in 2005, this blog features news, commentary and best practices
from the hospitality & tourism industries, particularly hotels.
| Aloft Hotels launches funky new website with gaming and high tech guest interaction |
| Aloft Hotels Launches Ground-Breaking Online Experience for the High-Tech, Gen Y Traveler. Aloft becomes the first hospitality brand to incorporate original gaming into its Web experience Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.® (NYSE:HOT) and its... |
| World Environment Day - GATE Hotel School Nepal Creates Awareness in Kathmandu |
| Mr. Giuseppe Luizi Bazzani is a notable hotelier, who has served as a General Manager in over a dozen 5-star hotels, including such global brands as the Waldorf Astoria New York, Swiss hotels around the world, Hilton London, Sweden, Turkey, Tel Aviv ... |
| Swiss Hotel Schools - 97 new Hoteliers MADE at SSTH Passugg |
| Some more fond memories...and fresh Hotel Management Graduate news from Passugg! At the diploma ceremony of the SSTH Swiss School of Tourism and Hospitality 97 hoteliers celebrated the awarded diploma on May 27th, 2009! The ceremony took place on the s... |
| Use social media to promote your Hotels website and get more reservations today |
| Online conversations regarding your hotel continually reinforce its online perception to your target audience. Therefore the importance of tactical social media and blogging activities cannot be ignored. Hotels are finding out the hard way that convers... |
| The first realistic Hotelier Business Simulation - Test your Hotel CEO Skills with this game! |
| If you've always dreamed of sitting at the helm of your global hotel empire...and terms like RevPAR, GOPPAR, bottom line profits and market share come easy, then perhaps it's time you put your skills to the test! YoungHotelier.com is proud to introduc... |
This blog features an insider look and best practices from the world of hotel / hospitality emarketing. Overs a variety of topics related ebusiness, ecommerce, online markting, internet marketing and web strategy.
| Long Tails, Tribes, Digital Natives and New World Hospitality |
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If you were to read the titles of popular business literature today, you’d think we were headed back to the dawn of society… where human societal interaction had just begun to evolve. This is not ...
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| Google Wave - Reinventing online communication and collaboration |
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Google’s done it again! Jens and Lars Rasmussen, the guys behind Google Maps, finally unveiled the results of 2 years of labour… Google Wave. The Google Wave page describes the tool simply as “a new model ...
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| The Hotel Business Game - So you want to be a Hotel CEO? |
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If you’ve always dreamed of sitting at the helm of your global hotel empire…and terms like RevPAR, GOPPAR, bottom line profits and market share come easy, then perhaps it’s time you put your skills to ...
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| Transparency, the Internet and good hospitality - All the hotel’s a stage… |
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We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented. We’ve become bored with watching actors give us phony emotions. We are tired of pyrotechnics and special effects. While the world he inhabits ...
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| Say “cheese” – You’re on candid cam! |
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A picture may be worth a thousand words…but most hotel PR & Marketing managers today would be at a loss for words at the plague of user generated photos out on the Internet today. Hoteliers ...
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Started in 2007, this site features video interviews with hoteliers,
hotel concepts, hotelier humor and a discussion forum.
| Summer Competition - Win a signed copy of Great Grand and Famous Hotels |
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YoungHotelier.com Competition - Win a signed copy of Great, Grand & Famous Hotels!
Introducing Fritz Gubler’s Great, Grand & Famous Hotels (RRP AU$79.95)
This book contains stories about great, grand and famous hotels sourced from history, legend and the occasional snippet of gossip. Take a peek inside and discover a treasure trove of famous or forgotten anecdotes. [...]
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| Dead Sea, Jordan - Hotelier RoadTrip Middle East 2009 |
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YoungHotelier.com is happy to present “The Middle East Hotelier Road Trip”, in conjunction with Movenpick Hotels & Resorts in the Middle East.
Our next stop in the Hotelier Road Trip Middle East - Dead Sea, Jordan:
About the Mövenpick Resort & Spa Dead Sea:
Set on the northern shores of the Dead Sea at the lowest point on Earth, [...]
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| European romance - Great, Grand and Famous Hotels |
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The Romans were the first European travellers, building beautiful villas and palaces throughout their vast empire. These villas inspired Renaissance princes to build neo-classical villas, many of which later became private hotels. In the modern era, travel in Europe became popular with the advent of the Grand Tour. Flourishing during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, [...]
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| Aqaba, Jordan - Hotelier RoadTrip Middle East 2009 |
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YoungHotelier.com is happy to present “The Middle East Hotelier Road Trip”, in conjunction with Movenpick Hotels & Resorts in the Middle East.
Our next stop in the Hotelier Road Trip Middle East - Aqaba, Jordan:
About the Mövenpick Resort & Residence:
Located in the centre of Aqaba, overlooking the Red Sea, the Mövenpick Resort & Residence is a [...]
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| So you want to be a hotel CEO? Play the first Hotel Business Game and test your skills! |
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If you’ve always dreamed of sitting at the helm of your global hotel empire…and terms like RevPAR, GOPPAR, bottom line profits and market share come easy, then perhaps it’s time you put your skills to the test! YoungHotelier.com is proud to introduce the first-ever real-time real-world business simulation for the Hotel Industry, in affiliation with [...]
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Started in 2007, this blog features material on the Travel 2.0
phenomenon, Web 2.0, emarketing, ecommerce & technology in hospitality &
tourism.
| The Hotel Business Simulation for Hoteliers, CEOs and Students |
| If you’ve always dreamed of sitting at the helm of your global hotel empire…and terms like RevPAR, GOPPAR, bottom line profits and market share come easy, then perhaps it’s time you put your skills to the test! YoungHotelier.com is proud to introduce the first-ever real-time real-world business simulation for the Hotel Industry, in affiliation with [...] |
| Hotel Internet Marketing - Leveraging User Generated Photos and Video |
| A picture may be worth a thousand words…but most hotel PR & Marketing managers today would be at a loss for words at the plague of user generated photos out on the Internet today. Hoteliers may need to get used to the fact that competing with their ‘official’ previews of what to expect, past guests [...] |
| A mobile marketing story from the near future |
| Here’s a peek at the hotel guest experience in the near future. With mobile phones becoming an increasingly important marketing and CRM channel, improving technology and awareness will soon allow hotel marketers to enhance the hotel guest interaction, in a very similar way to what’s described below… Hotel Booking and Research Sam wants to book a hotel [...] |
| How can Hotels and Restaurants use Twitter - Twitter Survey Suggestions |
| I did a quick survey recently called the Twitterati Dozen. This was basically an online survey with 12 questions addressed to prominent and very active Twitter users, to obtain their thoughts on Twitter use, connections, peeves, best practices and more. A big thank you to those of you who participated – the survey link was posted on [...] |
| Hotel Internet Marketing best practices and predictions from Bloggers and Experts |
| This year promises to be a challenging one for hoteliers. The internet offers a great source of inspiration and a superb platform for efficient marketing. Here is a collaborative document that shares the thoughts, ideas and best practices of 6 hospitality industry experts and bloggers on the key developments and recession-beating tips for 2009: This document [...] |
This is a site for hoteliers, restaurateurs and those in the service and hospitality industry. Itbs about time we had some place WE could review guests, sound offb&and just take solace in the fact that we all have bad days where we have to deal with these characters.
| What about us poor hoteliers? |
| A site created to share stories about those guests that can only be labelled "from hell". |
| The Real World of a Hotelier |
| Here is an old but funny description that’s been floating around the internet, of what an ideal hotelier must be… (By Rolf Oppenheim) AN HOTELIER MUST BE: A DIPLOMAT A DEMOCRAT AN AUTOCRAT AN ACROBAT AND… A DOORMAT. He must have the facility to entertain Prime Ministers, Princes of industry, pickpockets, gamblers, bookmakers, pirates, philanthropists, posies and prudes. He must be on both sides of [...] |
| Hotels and Hospitality: Taming the Guest from Hell |
| By Steven Ferry, Chairman, the International Institute of Modern Butlers Back in 2006, the concept of the Guest from Hell was introduced to the industry in two articles entitled Besting and then Muzzling the Guest from Hell published by several industry organs. The feedback demonstrated strong support for the idea of an international database for the [...] |
| Hotels and Hospitality: Muzzling the Guest from Hell |
| By Steven Ferry, Chairman, the International Institute of Modern Butlers If response to an article is anything to go by, the recent one about Besting the Guest from Hell hit the spot for a number of readers. Who hasn’t had a run-in with a guest from hell and, following the dictum, “The Guest is Always Right [...] |
| Hotels and Hospitality: Besting the Guest From Hell |
| By Steven Ferry, Chairman, the International Institute of Modern Butlers “You call this a five star-hotel?” I’ve been in Motel 6’s that provided better service. You people are all the same, slipping service standards and all you are interested in is tips. It’s freezing in here, the A/C doesn’t work, the bed’s too small, the place [...] |
Started in 2007, this is a top Europe travel blog for authentic travel
on a modest budget.
| Europe a la Carte Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour 22 July – 1 August 2009 |
| Europe a la Carte will be taking to the skies visiting five cities and towns across England, Northern Ireland and Wales between 22 July – 1 August 2009. The Europe a la Carte UK Summer 09 Blogging Tour will be powered by bmibaby, who are providing my flights from Edinburgh to Birmingham, Newquay, [...] |
| Top Free Fringe in the 2009 Edinburgh Festival |
| Well, it seems tradition that we highlight the free events and activities in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (you can see our 2008 list here). So here’s our recommendations for free stuff in this year’s festival – the links point to the official Edinburgh Fringe website, where you can read more about each suggestion. [...] |
| Restaurant Review: Chillies West End, Glasgow |
| We visited Chillies West End in Woodlands Road in Glasgow for lunch on a week day at the beginning of July 2009. The restaurant chefs Jansey and Saumitra won the BBC Good Food Scotland award for the best Asian dining chefs in 2008/2009. Chillies West End, Glasgow The restaurant is billed as a contemporary Indian restaurant serving [...] |
| See the Berlin sights by rickshaw |
| When I was last in London for a weekend, I noticed rickshaws in some of the tourist spots, ready to pedal you from one sight to another and save your weary feet. So when I was sightseeing in Berlin this spring, and saw more rickshaws I realised that this is a trend and that rickshaws [...] |
| An Afternoon at Ulriksdal Palace |
| Ulriksdal Palace is situated just north of Stockholm in Solna. The palace is close enough to be a perfect afternoon outing. The subways head out in that direction and will leave you with about a 15 minute walk through a national park. After wandering through the park you’ll come across the castle on the shore [...] |
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