Celebrity Guests! Flashing cameras! Alert Hotel Security, the paparazzi are blocking the main hotel lobby entrance!? In the hospitality industry many of us have crossed paths with the stars that we often read about in glossy magazines. While we don’t like to admit it openly we love to tell others about it! These celebrity encounters tend to go one of two ways; a thrilling and exhilarating experience where the entire team is on a constant high, stalking the back of house corridors in the hope of accidently bumping into this world renowned celebrity!
Are you a hotel eMarketer looking for ways to better communicate, educate and develop the role at your property/ies? This article explores some of the issues surrounding these efforts, complemented by a dose of perspective and a generous helping of best practices, all garnished, hopefully, by your own ideas and experiences. By Jitendra Jain
Finding Meaning: Wikipedia attributes the word ‘evolution’ to the Latin term ‘evolutio’ meaning “unfolding”. While the tech and Internet revolution have anything but “unfolded” upon us (“exploded” would be more appropriate, given the short span of time over which most Internet-related developments have occurred), there is something to be learnt from the nature of these changes.
We recently had the pleasure and honor of catching up (over the wires for now…as we wait for his travels to bring him to Dubai) with Brad Nelson, Marriott’s Culinary VP and Corporate Chef. Brad has just joined the hospitality blogging community in Bill Marriott’s footsteps with a food blog titled “Marriott in the Kitchen”. Besides Brad’s Q&A on the blog, we also wanted to find out more about the dynamic individual behind the title…and we were not dissappointed! Here is the exclusive
Communication breakdown sang Led Zeppelin fifty years ago. Your basic track about a rock musician’s unrequited love, a breakdown that was probably fuelled by dropping enough drugs to keep a small country high for a week. But that track could have been this week’s theme tune because of the omission of one word.
Back in Led Zep’s heyday the breakdown would have happened in person or over the phone, now the possibilities for a communication breakdown in a relationship have extended; sms, email, web chat, and web 2.0 social networking sites. Within the business the same possibilities for communication breakdowns exist and then some.
A warm welcome to all “Young” Hoteliers and Hospitality professionals! We are happy to introduce www.younghotelier.com, a platform geared towards showcasing the industry and more importantly, the people that define it!
Our Vision: We want to be a home to young hoteliers everywhere!
Our Core Values and Mission:
Connect: Help young hoteliers connect socially, professionally & emotionally
Learn and Grow: Nurture potential and the need to grow through collective experience and wisdom. Share inspiration.
Belong: A place for simply being you, no matter where your life choices take you.
Be Different: Be bold. Cherish and celebrate our differences.
Have fun and keep it real: Be honest. Walk the talk. Life isn’t a dress rehearsal, so remember to enjoy the journey!
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