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Family, Team or Something Else?

in Business Practices, Hotel and Lodging, Human Resources, Winter 2017 80 comments

By John Murtha I was on temporary assignment recently at another hotel in our company that was between general managers.  This historic property had joined us less than a year before I arrived and one thing that immediately impressed me was how quickly the associates had bought into our way of doing business.  They operated […]

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Building Hotel Revenues through Tourism

in Business Practices, Hotel and Lodging, Marketing, Trends, Winter 2013 0 comments

By John Murtha When evaluating ways to maximize revenues, hotel executives should consider supporting the efforts of local destination marketing organizations (DMOs). Helping to build and sustain travel to a city or region can benefit individual hotels, by combining resources and energy on marketing tactics that would otherwise be too ambitious or costly for a […]

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