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HSMAI creates and curates content from the thought leaders in hospitality sales, marketing, and revenue optimization around the world. Including articles, conference presentations, white papers, case studies, research, best practices, and more, Insights features content from HSMAI events and industry experts, updated each week for HSMAI members and the hospitality industry. Insights also provides access to content from around the industry via Pineapple Search, the search engine for the hospitality industry.
Fuel Sales
EproDirect conducted an online survey of meeting planners to better understand the sources they typically use for research, their communication preferences and their booking patterns. Among the report findings: The…
What do you do when you’ve spent the last 10 years taking inbound leads for granted — and you’re facing the possibility of an economic slowdown? Pivot to proactive selling. A new white paper from HSMAI and Knowland, Finding the ‘Right’ Group Business, explains how. Read an excerpt here.
At HSMAI’s Sales Leader Forum on Nov. 5–6, Dr. Kelly McGuire, principal with McRevenue LLC, presented a breakout session on “Data and Analytics for Sales Leaders.” Here is the first of four key takeaways.
Inspire Marketing
Marketing leaders from hotel brands, management companies, and owner groups met at HSMAI’s Chief Marketing Officer Executive Roundtable in New York City on Jan. 21. Here are four key takeaways from their discussion on emerging trends.
How to differentiate vs. the competition and keeping up with technology are among the biggest concerns facing marketing professionals today. HSMAI asked registrants for the upcoming Marketing Strategy Conference for their opinions ahead of the event.
It may not always feel like it, but the United States is seeing one of the longest periods of economic expansion in history, according to best-selling author and renowned speaker Shawn DuBravac. DuBravac will be giving a keynote presentation at HSMAI’s Marketing Strategy Conference in New York City on January 22, where he will offer predictions for the coming year and insights on the economy.
Optimize Revenue
How are you, as a revenue leader, coaching team members on how to deal with a potential downturn in the market, which many of them have not faced? HSMAI’s Revenue Optimization Advisory Board (ROAB) tackled that question at its annual retreat and identified 8 strategies that they are employing in their own businesses.
HSMAI’s Revenue Optimization Advisory Board (ROAB) held its annual retreat last month to identify the most pressing issues facing hotels on the revenue front and outline plans to provide revenue professionals the insights, tools, and best practices they need to address them. Here are a few key discussions ROAB members had.
HSMAI sat down with two hospitality instructors who are using a new educational HSMAI toolbox in different ways: Marie-Claire Louillet, DBA, CRME, professor at Institut de tourisme et d’hôtellerie du Québec, and Hugo Tang, associate professor at the Purdue University School of Hospitality and Tourism Management. They shared how it’s been helpful to their students.
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Above and Beyond – Driving the Revenue Management Culture Past Rooms – HSMAI’s ROC 2019
Presented by Michael Lau, CRME, CHBA, regional director of revenue management, Accor, at HSMAI’s ROC 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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