A BHR Interview with Roger Drake, Interim Chief Marketing Officer, Condado Tacos Roger, what are some of the more innovative marketing methods you utilize for the restaurant brand today, and why are they effective? Partnerships and collaborations that create a win-win opportunity work really well for this brand. Matching the restaurant brand’s target guest base […]
A BHR Interview with Adam Wallace Founder and CEO, Spherical Adam, you grew up in the world of hotels thanks to your uncle and his role at the Roger Smith. What fascinated you about hospitality marketing in your early days of hospitality? I’ve always loved the rich sensory experience of hospitality. The design of a […]
A BHR Interview with Julie Freeman, Executive Vice President of Public Relations for the Americas, MMGY Global Julie, how long have you been in the business of hospitality marketing, and what have you seen as an evolution for creative or effective campaigns? Personally, I’ve been in travel and hospitality public relations for more than 25 […]
By Mackenzie Miers, SHA ’21, MMH ’22 Social media has completely changed the world within a timespan of twenty-five years as the first channel of social media was launched in 1997 (A brief history of Social Media, 2021). Whether people started utilizing social media platforms as early as MySpace or more recently when downloading TikTok […]
By Leora Halpern Lanz It’s challenging to be a hotel market today, let alone one who needs to understand and masterfully manage digital marketing for one or more properties. How do the hotel marketer and revenue manager ride the endless wave of online travel agency (OTA) distribution, commission structures, and rate parity? How much should […]
By Leora Halpern Lanz and Megan Carmichael The hotel marketing budget, typically amounting to approximately 4-5% of an asset’s total revenue, must remain fluid, so that the marketing director can constantly adapt the marketing tools to meet consumer communications methods and demands. Though only a small amount of a hotel’s revenue is traditionally allocated […]
By Lauren Greenfield It seems that people are more willing than ever to share their lives as a series of photos on the Internet. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram make it easy to share every little detail with our friends and family and even with people we don’t know. We share photos of major […]