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The Prognosis for Occupancy and Average Rate in a Slowing Economy - By Anne Lloyd-Jones
Given the current state of the economy, and the growing consensus that a recession is near, if not here, what is the outlook for the hotel industry? This article reviews past cycles, to gain some insight into future occupancy and average rate trends.
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Sustaining A Customer Service Initiative: The Need for Long-Term Commitment - By Dennis Snow
Most customer service improvement initiatives fail to produce sustained results. While such a statement may seem harsh, I think that most would agree with the statement based on their own experiences.
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Comparable Worth - What Would You Pay For The Experience - By J. Ragsdale Hendrie
We all know E-Bay. Many of us have attended those Charity galas with silent and loud auctions. We in Hospitality are always asked to contribute to educational, fraternal, civic and special interest events - a room night here, a fine dinner there, a basket of goodies, a trip on the Morning Dew vessel, a condo exchange, a day of skiing - you name it. We try to establish a value for these goods and services, helpful to the organization and our deductible Charity budget.
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Chasing Your Own Private Equity - By Christian Anklin
HVS Executive Search explains the logic of granting equity to key executives, especially for startup scenarios or takeovers.
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Salon.com
Salon.com (NASDAQ: SALN) is an Internet media company that produces 10 original content sites as well as two online communities -- Table Talk and The WELL. The content sites, updated daily or more frequently, include News, Politics, Technology & Business, Arts & Entertainment, Books, Sex, Life, People, Comics, and Salon Audio, a digital audio hub which offers downloadable interviews and commentary from today's most compelling writers and performers.
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Sweeperland
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FEATURED MAGAZINE |
BtoB Magazine BtoB Magazine is the only publication dedicated to all disciplines of business-to-business marketing. In print, through enewsletters and at BtoBonline.com, BtoB Magazine provides more than 100,000 senior marketers, with the information and analysis they need to develop a winning integrated marketing strategy.
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FEATURED BOOK |
Murder at Hotel Cinema
Parlaying his career as a hotel executive into a second career as a novelist, Daniel Edward Craig has released his second installment in the Five-Star Mystery Series, Murder at Hotel Cinema. In this star-studded sequel to Murder at the Universe, Craig pokes good-humored fun at the celebrity-crazed Los Angeles culture from the perspective of dedicated hotel manager Trevor Lambert.
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HSMAI's 2nd Annual Hotel Sales Strategy Conference will focus on Maximizing Revenue and Resources in a Changing Economy. Held September 9, 2008, in conjunction with HSMAI's Affordable Meetings(R) National in Washington DC. |
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