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2024 Hotel Group, Events, and Meetings Trends & Stats That Every Hotelier Should Know
Mike Pavicich | November 15, 2023
By Mike Pavicich | Director, Global Sales | SalesAndCatering.com As the calendar pages turn, we bid farewell to 2023, a year that saw our steady stride back to normalcy within the hospitality sector. But as we look to 2024, we're not just walking; we're poised to leap into an era marked by the potential for unparalleled growth. The once turbulent waters of the hospitality industry have calmed, and now it's time for hotel brands to chart a course for uncharted territories of opportunity. The spotlight shines on the group sales and meetings sector, which is anticipated to accelerate in the coming year. In the world of hospitality, group...
Remington Hotels Taps Knowland to Capture Multi-Day Event Business
Knowland | May 10, 2023
Knowland helps Remington Hotels execute its sales strategy to win more meetings and events revenue ARLINGTON, Va. — May 10, 2023 — Knowland, the world’s leading provider of data-as-a-service insights on meetings and events for hospitality, announced today that Remington Hotels, a dynamic and growing hotel management company, selected Knowland to execute its sales strategy and increase profitability more precisely. Founded in 1968, Remington Hotels has grown into a strong, industry-leading hospitality service provider. Today it manages 121 hotels in 30 states across 26 brands, including 18 independent and boutique properties. Be...
Why Hotel Revenue Managers Know Not to Soley Rely On Gut Instinct When It Comes to Group Revenue Management
David Millili | May 4, 2023
By David Millilii, CEO of LodgIQ Amadeus reports that group and business travel segments are steadily recovering, with 4.3 million group room nights booked for H1 2023. The global business travel segment is expected to recover fully by 2024. According to the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), group travel demand will likely increase in 2023, and the average spend per attendee for group events will increase in 2023. Group business means big business for hotels, accounting for a significant portion of hotel revenue. Some estimates suggest it can make up as much as 30-50% of a hotel's total revenue. This underscores the importance ...
Maestro PMS Adds Tripleseat to Its Roster of 800+ Partner Integrations, Gives Clients New Option to Seamlessly Manage Group Bookings & Events
Maestro | April 4, 2023
Hotels, resorts, and conference centers can now push/pull room availability, rates, and pick-up revenue from the popular Tripleseat sales-and-catering platform into the leading Maestro property-management system, ensuring clean data in real time and better guest room control MARKHAM, ONTARIO, April 4, 2023 — The meetings and events industry is experiencing an unprecedented recovery, and all signs point to a busy 2023, according to the American Express 2023 Global Meetings and Events Forecast. To ensure frictionless execution of group bookings from reservations to checkout, Maestro PMS has formed an integration partnership with web-based ...
Marriott International Announces Instant Booking Solution for Meetings and Events With Groups360
Groups360 | January 18, 2023
Marriott International now offers online instant booking for group guest rooms and meeting space through GroupSync Marketplace at properties in the U.S. & Canada Marriott International and Groups360 today announced the launch of Instant Booking for Marriott’s portfolio of hotels in the United States and Canada. Marriott International is the first brand to have a direct integration with Groups360 to offer the “Instant Book” functionality for both guest rooms and meeting space at scale on GroupSync Marketplace, providing planners with a streamlined booking process at the click of a button. As the meetings and events landscape be...
To Achieve Lofty Hotel Sales Goals for 2023, Let’s Embrace New Sales
Doug Kennedy | November 1, 2022
By Doug Kennedy Based on the conversations I’m having with KTN sales training clients, it seems that demand for groups and events is coming back quicker than expected, so sales revenue targets for 2023 have been raised accordingly. With all the continued uncertainty in the economy and with Covid 19 still refusing to go away, it’s going to take more than a reactive sales culture to achieve those goals. Therefore, this is a wonderful time to establish new sales habits. As my frequent readers know, I have often written about what I call “sales slippage,” whereby too many salespeople have grown content to live off inbound demand. To...
Qatar Hotel Bookings Rising Ahead of the FIFA World Cup
STR | October 26, 2022
Across the months of November and December 2022, Qatar will welcome football fans from across the globe as the first Arab nation to host the FIFA World Cup. With the first match kicking off on 20 November, hotel bookings in the country have ramped up since rooms were released to the public earlier this month. Over the coming months, STR will deliver a series of articles to analyze hotel booking trends for the “mega event” as well as examine historical data as it actualizes—not only in Qatar but surrounding destinations before and after the event. One key difference in this edition of the World Cup is the requirement of ...
Leading Hotel Brand Valor Hospitality Selects STS Cloud as Their Preferred Sales and Catering Platform Partner for 8 Properties
SalesAndCatering.com | May 17, 2022
Valor Hospitality is Utilizing SalesAndCatering.com’s STS Cloud and ProposalPath across 8 properties to empower a stand-out group sales process that consistently wins more business Mount Pleasant, SC [May 17, 2022] - Valor Hospitality Partners, a full-service hotel management, acquisition and development company with a track record of excellence, has partnered with SalesAndCatering.com to transform their group sales processes. Using both STS Cloud and ProposalPath, Valor Hospitality Hotels are primed to stand out from competitor properties, capitalize on leads, drive revenue, and consistently over-deliver on meeting and event bookings....
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