People venture into a restaurant to eat the food. People visit their fitness studios to workout. People travel to a hotel to sleep. If any one of those businesses simply …
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Tips for Profitable Hotels in 2016
Though it may be more fun attracting leisure and transient travelers, group and meeting business make up a substantially larger piece of the revenue pie for hotels. Often times, group …
Budget Plan Ingredients for a Successful 2016
10, 9, 8, 7… the countdown has begun, and no, not for the epic ball drop ringing in 2016, but for the rapidly approaching due date of your hotel’s budget …
How to Analyze Last Year’s Budget Data
Analysis is key. Don’t even consider lifting a pen towards the budget plan for 2016 until you, and your team, have thoroughly analyzed the budget and results from 2015. It’s …
‘Tis the Season for Hotel Budgeting
Be prepared, not scared. Budgeting season has rolled around once again, and with it tends to come stress, worry, and frustrations, but that doesn’t have to be the case. Of …
How Storytelling Can Drive Revenue for Your Hotel
Think back, what’s your earliest memory of having a story read to you? For as long as humans have existed on this Earth, storytelling has existed. It isn’t difficult to …
Tackling Bias to Bring Top Candidates to Your Hotel
Welcome back to our blog series about workplace diversity! Our introductory post reviewed 3 big benefits of workplace diversity, with subsequent posts diving deeper into each. Past posts discussed how …
How Diversity Boosts Employee Engagement
Welcome back to our blog series about workplace diversity! We started out this series with a big-picture look at 3 main benefits that come with having a diverse workforce–that is, …
3 Quotes on How Groupthink Can Hurt Your Hotel
In last week’s post, we discussed the importance of workplace diversity and three huge benefits that come with hiring and promoting employees based on merit. This installment of our workplace …
Why Hotel Owners Should Embrace Diversity
Diversity in the workplace is one of those paradoxical subjects that is so important to discuss yet, at the same time, you wonder why it needs to be discussed at …