The only good thing about Motel 6 is its potential value as a Cornell case study about the direct relationship between bad hotel sales and marketing and bad hotel security.
But sales and marketing is also where my biggest weakness lies: I can do it, but my experience in hotel sales and marketing is not altogether conventional.
Barbara Atkinson, 55, who checks into a different hotel every week for her job marketing products for hotel rooms, has stayed on the women-only floors at both the Premier and the Crowne Plaza in Washington, D.
"This package brings together all of the only-in-Seattle experiences in the bestselling 'Shades of Grey novels, '" says the hotel's marketing spiel.
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On the other hand, if it's much lower than 86%, I'm going to suspect either some chicanery on the part of the seller (he's renting out a bunch of rooms really cheap, to whoever, in an effort to manipulate his occupancy percentage), or that the hotel's marketing isn't being approached very intelligently.
Lucia are banding together in a public-private partnership between the nations to offer 20% discounts from Black Friday through Cyber Monday when rooms are booked through official destination marketing or hotel association websites.
But other marketing systems the hotel uses may not have known about your stay and sent you a pre-scheduled discount for a future visit at the same time.
So Biki tied up with Hilton International, agreeing to cobrand his Trident hotel chain. (The marketing deal ended in March.) He hints at future partnerships, even, perhaps, a merger.
So Biki tied up with Hilton International, agreeing to co-brand his Trident hotel chain. (The marketing deal ended in March.) He hints at future partnerships, even, perhaps, a merger.
"They served their purpose a few years back but simply lost their luster over time, " admits Lisa Gory, the hotel's director of sales and marketing.
Hotel operators might not mind spending money on marketing so much if the Caribbean were otherwise a cheap and easy place to build and run hotels.
David Ritchie, who directs sales and marketing for the Omni Parker House hotel in Boston, came to the statehouse to learn how to attract more Chinese travellers.
Tony Townsend, marketing manager at Newquay's Hotel Victoria, said staff had been working hard to put together profitable packages that would offer good value for people coping with increased bills and economic hardship.
Many of them, including Marriott International, a hotel chain, have been quick to blame the marketing firm for the leak and to alert their customers to the risks.
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The connection with hotel managers has also opened up the chance for some grassroots marketing and networking.
Hotel groups, as a result, run their own international marketing campaigns.
About 140 entrepreneurs and marketers attended the September 20th discussion at the W Hotel, hoping to discover the secret sauce of social media marketing in 2012.
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The movie, about a hotel where monsters can go to relax, has received a huge marketing push from Sony so most kids are raring to see it and even though the critical response has been mixed, many parents will happily take their kids this weekend.
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Unlike the Standard Hotel on the High Line, where nude sightings of guests have become part of the marketing campaign, the Yotel management is drawing a line.
When planning for the decks was still in early stages, someone showed Tim Mapes, Delta's senior vice president for marketing, photos of a poolside installation orchestrated by Architectural Digest at the Raleigh Hotel during Art Basel in Miami.
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"We have people who come from all over the world who know about our hotel from the 'Riot House' days, " says Nancy Lorusso, director of sales and marketing.
According to the marketing manager, Julia Deleye, if you look in the kitchen at any highly rated hotel restaurant in the world, you will likely find someone who trained at Traube Tonbauch.
Enough of all that, let me tell you about this feat of marketing genius from: This is a blog post about dinosaurs, Tesla, and a hotel in Colorado.
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