group business
Market Snapshot by Knowland Delivers Key Market Insights in a Fast, Easy-to-Consume, and Share View
Knowland | November 16, 2022
Platform feature adds self-service market trends to better guide group sales strategies and grow market share ARLINGTON, Va. — Nov. 16, 2022 — Knowland, the world’s leading provider of data-as-a-service insights on meetings and events for hospitality, today introduced Market Snapshot. This new feature delivers data insights sales leaders can use to understand their markets better, define sales strategies, and grow group business share. In an ever-changing competitive landscape, hospitality professionals need to understand how market trends change and define those impacting their business. Property leaders and sales managers o...
Knowland Launches Portfolio Capture, the Industry’s First Meetings and Events Solution Designed for Management Companies and Ownership Groups
Knowland | September 14, 2022
Robust benchmarking solution provides a unified view of meetings and events performance across all hotels in a portfolio ARLINGTON, Va. — Sept. 14, 2022 — Knowland, the world’s leading provider of data-as-a-service insights on meetings and events for hospitality, today introduced Portfolio Capture, to provide a comprehensive, unified view of group business performance across an entire portfolio. This complement to the Knowland platform makes it easy for asset managers and ownership groups to benchmark properties in their portfolios against each other, view competitive performance, and identify top sales opportunities. These feat...
Hyatt Expands Collaboration With Knowland Focused on Increasing Group Business Market Share
Knowland | July 13, 2022
Relationship provides revenue-generating tools to managed and franchised hotels to outsell competitors ARLINGTON, Va.— July 13, 2022 — Knowland, one of the world’s leading providers of data insight within the hospitality meetings and events industry, announced today that Hyatt has expanded its relationship with the company to deliver value across its portfolio. Knowland continues to partner with brands and management companies to expand its data set and enhance its intelligence-driven technology. Hyatt is the first global hotel brand to offer its managed and franchised hotels access to the Knowland database through a holistic portfo...
5 Telltale Signs It’s Time to Change Your S&C System and Why It’s Quicker and Easier Than You Might Think
Ryan Hamilton | July 6, 2022
By Ryan Hamilton, Co-Founder, SalesAndCatering.com and Bluebuzzard Technology Group Within the hospitality space, groups and events represent a profitable business segment. From events to group bookings and corporate meetings, the sales and catering software hotels have in place will ultimately make or break a hotel’s ability to attract high-ticket group business. With this in mind, many hotels (independent properties and chains alike) have begun seeking more modern, cloud-based S&C platforms that provide their teams with the tools needed to attract group business and, more importantly, ‘wow’ event planners and attendees. Hotelie...
TAJ Hospitality Selects STS Cloud, Proposal Path, and e-Signature to Fuel the Growth and Development of Its Sales Team
TAJ Hospitality Management | April 28, 2022
The globally recognized hospitality brand is on a high-growth trajectory as they look to optimize its group business segment with a technology stack from SalesAndCatering.com MOUNT PLEASANT, SC – (April 28th, 2022) - TAJ Hospitality, a premier hotel brand with 40 years of experience and a beloved reputation for treating each hotel guest like family, has implemented STS Cloud, ProposalPath, and e-Signature across their entire portfolio of hotels. With the help of these integrated solutions from SalesAndCatering.com, TAJ Hospitality is positioned to enter a new phase of growth while empowering its properties with intuitive, user-friendly t...
Wedding Bells Are Ringing – Are Hotels and Venues Ready to Answer the Demand?
Ryan Hamilton | April 20, 2022
How to perfect your sales process to win more group business and become a sought-after wedding venue By Ryan Hamilton, Co-Founder, SalesAndCatering.com and Bluebuzzard Technology Group Lately, everywhere you turn, there seems to be a tangible shift in energy – an exciting buzz in the air as we await the change of season, with cool spring mornings soon to become warm summer nights. Of course, this isn’t just any seasonal transition; this marks the first ‘normal’ summer most of us will have had in two years due to the pandemic, and it’s easy to understand the anticipation we all feel. But there is, perhaps, no group of people mo...
Groups360 Raises $35 Million in Funding to Support Rapid Growth
Groups360 | April 7, 2022
$35 Million Investment from Zigg Capital, Blackstone Innovations Investments, and Fir Tree Partners to Accelerate Growth NASHVILLE, TN – April 7, 2022 – Groups360, a leading platform for booking group travel, today announced the completion of a $35 million funding round led by Zigg Capital and including Blackstone Innovations Investments, and Fir Tree Partners. They join existing investors Accor, Hilton, IHG Hotels & Resorts, and Marriott International. Groups360 provides real-time availability and instant booking capabilities for both hotel room blocks and meeting space, streamlining group travel for organizers, attendees, a...
Group Business and Corporate Meetings on the Rise – Is Your Hotel Ready?
Ryan Hamilton | March 15, 2022
By Ryan Hamilton It’s no secret that hospitality’s path to recovery has been a long and challenging road. If 2020 was the year that travel came to a grinding halt, 2021 was the year of cautious optimism as hoteliers waited with bated breath for a return to relative normalcy. The industry was braced for a comeback, eagerly awaiting the first rush of excited travelers to spill off the airport tarmac and back into the welcoming arms of global hotel brands. Staff was welcomed back, amenities reopened, lobbies and guest rooms were pristine, processes were reformed, and soon enough, leisure travel became the industry’s beacon of hope. O...
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