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Are You Leaving Money on the Table? Turning Casino Resorts Into Go-To Venues for Profitable Groups and Events
Mike Pavicich | March 28, 2024
By Mike Pavicich Technology becomes the key to maximizing your venue’s revenue potential by getting more out of every square foot of floor space Historically, Las Vegas was a gaming-centric market, with 61% of revenues coming from the casino category in 1990. Although gaming continues to serve as an economic engine in Las Vegas, according to CDC Gaming, food, beverage, and other departments accounted for a record 73.4% of total revenue, up from a combined 69.6% year over year. This trend is not limited to Las Vegas; it is being observed in casino markets worldwide. A shift in consumer preferences drives this trend, with guests look...
SalesAndCatering.com Launches New Data Intelligence Suite for STS Cloud
SalesAndCatering.com | March 12, 2024
Single and multi-property operators speed group sales, drive revenue with actionable intelligence and insightful visualizations to address performance, trends, pipeline gaps and hit forecasts Charleston, SC – (March 12, 2024) –SalesAndCatering.com, a leading provider of sales and catering software solutions, announced today the launch of their new Data Intelligence Suite for STS Cloud. This groundbreaking suite brings advanced data analytics capabilities to the STS Cloud platform, empowering single and multi-property operators with valuable insights that drive informed decision-making and efficiently close more profitable group busines...
The 2024 Group Business Forecast: Trends to Help Hotels Capitalize on the Back-to-In-Person Boom
Mike Pavicich | February 6, 2024
By Mike Pavicich Group business is back in a big way. In-person events are returning to their pre-COVID normal pace. In 2024, 81 percent of meetings will have an in-person component in them. A recent study by Deloitte anticipates that by 2024, business travel spending will return to its level before the pandemic. This view is echoed in Accor's data, which shows in their latest survey regarding client business travel that 57 percent of those surveyed anticipate a budget increase for travel in 2024 compared to 2023. With this influx of in-person gatherings, in 2024, event technology is projected to become even more critical, providing k...
Smart Strategies, Big Wins: Transforming Group Sales With Data Insights
Mike Pavicich | January 9, 2024
By Mike Pavicich Data analytics can play a crucial role in identifying potential group sales opportunities for hotels. By analyzing large volumes of data, such as customer preferences, booking patterns, competitors, and market trends, hotels can gain valuable insights into the demand for group bookings. In fact, hotels that use data analytics strategies have seen a 20% increase in group sales and reduced their group sales acquisition costs by 25%. Platforms like SalesAndCatering.com’s STS Cloud, with robust reporting and business intelligence capabilities, are transforming not just the way hotels interpret group sales performance bu...
Visrez and SalesAndCatering.com Strengthen Partnership by Offering Integrated 3D Event Diagramming as an STS Cloud Enhancement
SalesAndCatering.com | May 9, 2023
Hotels gain a competitive advantage with photorealistic 3D Event Plans in proposals, and new Event Dashboard view of contracts, menus, layouts, venue space for sales teams and event planners Charleston, SC – (May 9, 2023) – – SalesAndCatering.com and Visrez, the revolutionary hotel and venue sales tool used by the leading brands to bring event spaces to life, have strengthened their long-standing partnership by debuting an enhanced integration between Visrez’s Floor Plan Builder and STS Cloud. Visrez Floor Plan Builder software produces superb photorealistic 3D event plans using exact replicas of event spaces, furniture, and pro...
SalesAndCatering.com and Amaze Insights Team Up to Provide Hotels With Consolidated View of Group Sales Data Across All Platforms and Properties
SalesAndCatering.com | May 2, 2023
Strategic technology partnership gives hotel brands, management companies, and individual properties flexibility to choose multiple S&C systems with access to actionable insights via a single-view platform Charleston, SC / Seattle, WA – (May 2, 2023) – – SalesAndCatering.com and Amaze Insights today announced a technology partnership that consolidates hotel group sales analytics. The idea behind this integration is to enable hotels to quickly and easily extract maximum value from their data in a centralized BI tool. The Amaze Insights platform provides a centralized view of group sales and catering/events data across multipl...
A Time for Hotel Growth: Interview With Ryan Hamilton, CEO/Co-Founder of SalesAndCatering.com
SalesAndCatering.com | March 8, 2023
By Alan Young There is no denying that 2021 and 2022 were challenging years for the hospitality industry. While hotels remained shuttered and planes remained uncharacteristically desolate amid the COVID-19 pandemic, hoteliers and hospitality technology vendors contemplated the same question – what would the post-pandemic landscape look like, and when would it (finally) come into view? The long-awaited period of industry revival is now undeniably upon us, and hospitality brands have surged back to life as travelers worldwide look to make up for lost time. In many ways, though, the pandemic served as an opportunity for recalibration acr...
SalesAndCatering.com Now Servicing Over 150 Management Companies Worldwide
SalesAndCatering.com | January 4, 2023
With a business model built on innovation, affordability and trust, SalesAndCatering.com has attracted over 150+ management companies to the industry-leading STS Cloud platform Charleston, SC – (January 4, 2023) – SalesAndCatering.com has had a year defined by exciting additions to its growing client portfolio, which now includes over 150 management companies using the company’s flagship sales and catering solution, STS Cloud. Founded over 30 years ago and currently serving over 2,300 of the world’s leading hotels, resorts, and meeting venues, STS Cloud is developed and supported from the company’s US-based offices. Only STS...
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