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Insights on Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Hotels & resorts Operations strategyBy redirecting business efforts, the head of Orascom Development found a path to company growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. MORE
Sanction Madness Escalates: Italy Seizes Hotel of Putin Ally Two days ago sanction madness hit a new extreme: Italy seizes Putin ally Arkady Rotenberg’s property assets. The Italian tax police have seized €30m in assets, including a luxury hotel in Rome and two villas in Sardinia, controlled by Arkady Rotenberg, a longtime ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin targeted by US and EU sanctions. What''s Russia to do? MORE
At Dorchester Collection of ultra-luxury hotels, we use big data and analytics to help us improve our guest offerings and marketing. For instance, last year Metis looked at customer sentiment about Parisian luxury hotels. Metis discovered that guests had little loyalty to ours — Le Meurice and Hotel Plaza Athénée — or to our competitors’ hotels. According to Metis’ analysis, guests view Paris’s 5-star hotels as interchangeable. MORE
Keith Ferrazzi is a two-time New York Times best selling author, Harvard Business School graduate, and the former youngest CMO of a Fortune 500 company at Starlight Hotels. MORE
HotelsWell well well.as if each and every one of us couldn't have single-handedly crafted this article ourselves. That said.it's s kind of nice to know if my opinion is WAY OFF as compared to everyone else. I'm a Marriott gal, personally, and occasionally can be considered a Starwood whore if The W is even tangentially involved. Anyway - check out what everyone else apparently thinks: From the current issue of Consulting Magazine. MORE
Yesterday upon arrival at her hotel she received a fruit basket, a warm welcome from the staff who greeted her by first name, and the below card. One of our partners spends a fair amount of time in one city (not his home) and always stays at the sane hotel. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. MORE
Imagine you''re the president of one of the largest economy hotel chains in America. How''s this for a challenge? Your goal: deliver a consistent, high-quality on-brand customer experience across all of your properties. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog. Customer Experience Customer Loyalty Customer Service Customer Strategy custoemrexperience forresterscustomerexperienceforum MORE
An Open Letter to Disgruntled Hotel Staff. Dear hotel staff, Do you know who I am? I am the reason your hotel can afford to offer a Starbucks, a restaurant, and a full-service bar. Customers like him regularly toss around hourly-wage-sized tips (and more) to the staff at your hotel, but only if youre not a prick too. Anyone with top elite status spent more than your annual salary at the hotel chain you work for, so that one guy represents your job. Hotels. (8). MORE
So allow me to suggest one radical idea: If you want to build a lifestyle brand, no matter the industry you’re in, consider building a hotel. ” It seems the innovative footwear company, based in Spain, decided that one way to deepen ties to its fashion-conscious customers was to build hotels, first in Barcelona, then in Berlin, whose look and experience would echo the brand’s attributes. Barry Winiker/Getty Images. MORE
Insights on Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Hotels & resorts Tourism Travel agencies Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Western EuropeUnless steps are taken to stimulate recovery, more than $300 billion and 4.4 million jobs could be in jeopardy. MORE
Uncategorized 11:59 analysis paralysis chair Christmas coach confusion despair English-language films Films Hospitality Recreation Hotels & Motels marketing paralyzed by writing stopped stuck worried worry writing a book You Got to MoveMy internal dialog started in 2008 when I decided to write another book to help me market my services. Here’s what my mind used to say: “Yeah, that’s a great idea for my second book! Let me think about it for awhile.” MORE
New research indicates an extended and variable return for one of the hardest-hit industries. Insights on Travel, Logistics & Transport Infrastructure MORE
When you are in consulting, you rack up a lot of frequent flyer miles and hotel points, but you dont have a lot of time to manage them. It is still in private beta, but I like what I see and Im using it to manage all of my (and Mrs. Ninjas) frequent flyer, hotel, car, and AMEX accounts. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja. MORE
When Youre Too Platinum with the Hotel. Like you, I have Platinum Status with just about ever hotel, airline, rental car agency, and liquor store in the Continental United States. Now, let me tell you a tale of a crazy consultant who officially reached "Too Platinum status with the Intercontinental Hotel Group. It all began at the hotel reception desk one rainy Monday evening in Connecticut. Zineb ( Nice Moroccan hotel receptionist ): Welcome back Crazy Consultant!! MORE
Now I’m back at the hotel. I’m sitting in the hotel bar, and they don’t have wireless. So…I’m sitting here, sipping a glass of Estancia, eating some sort of standard hotel salad involving mysterious meat, dried cranberries and candied pecans, watching football on 12 different screens and listening to ‘Hootie and the Blowfish’ on the “Excessively Loud for the Bar” sound setting. I expect at least four in a hotel salad. HotelsI’m officially insane. MORE
A sniper, Stephen Craig Paddock, unleashed a hail of bullets on an outdoor country music festival from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Vegas hotel. Paddock killed at least 58 people as tens of thousands of concertgoers screamed and ran for their lives. This was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. more…). Economics MORE
Youngme, Felix, and Mihir discuss some of the under-the-radar companies that they think people should be paying more attention to. Competition Disruptive innovation Technology Audio MORE
Are there consultants who love to sleep in impersonal hotel rooms, consume unhealthy food, miss family events and endure flight delays? Maybe. After all, there are people who love to eat crickets.It doesn’t amaze me that old, storied, brand name consulting firms primarily employ an on-site consulting model. After all, those firms are old. Their … Continued. The post Why On-Site Consulting Bites, And When to Do It Anyway appeared first on David A. Fields. MORE
Booking a hotel for business travel poses a quandary for many of us. The key is to remember that hotels – as well as most companies – offer what I call “backdoor” discounts. In the hotel industry, two popular hurdles are selling packages and employing uncertainty. It’s commonly believed within the hotel industry that business travelers will pay more than leisure vacationers. The critical missing information is the hotel name. MORE
One of the perks (or drawbacks depending on your perspective) of being a reporter is traveling on assignments. I''ve been sent to conferences in Cologne, Germany; New Orleans; Las Vegas, and Minneapolis among other cities in my career. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog. Customer Loyalty homepage MORE
It used to be that a consultant could wrack up thousands of reward points a year on airline tickets alone, not to mention hotels, ground transportation, and food. Consulting firm credit card use is changing. Credit card reward points are … Continue Reading. The post Firm Credit Card Use Changes In 2019 appeared first on Management Consulted. consulting news consulting travel management consulting MORE
I stay at big chain hotels too often. Here’s what they said: Women like bed and breakfast accommodation because it removes them from the predatory world of business hotels. Apparently we men can get downright ugly after a week on the road and too many gin and tonics, making lewd comments, following women around the hotel, and generally being pigs. Some even soak their per-diem, banking the extra hundreds rather than handing it over to the hotel. Hotels MORE
We make sure we maximize our airline and hotel status, we have a wallet full of credit cards, and we pick our travel providers accordingly. But airlines and hotels are aggressively devaluing their points and raising redemption rates. I spend over $100k annually on actual plane tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, and business meals. I want to be greeted by name when I return to the same hotel 10 times per year (a pox on the Hilton New York!) MORE
Thus, I welcome the Wall Street Journal report Google Checks In to the Hotel Business. Google Inc (GOOG) is moving boldly to play a larger role in booking hotel rooms—at the risk of offending some of its most important advertisers. Google is adding more photos and reviews to its hotel listings, so they increasingly resemble those of travel search sites such as Priceline Group Inc. As far as I am concerned the more competition the better. MORE
I pick it up from the hotel valet in the morning, and the valet asks me, ".hey, I tried to crank some major urban music on my way out of the hotel driveway, but I could only find CNBC on the satellite radio. Hotels. (8). Hotels. (8). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Tuesday, February 5, 2008. Great Moments in Consulting.the only car left was one of those new Cadillacs that looks like it was made out of folded paper (hint - it was). Same price as the yugo. MORE
The first and last person you deal with in a hotel is the doorman, and in a restaurant the hostess. They need to be top quality, no matter how nice the hotel room or how good the food. When you hire a hostess (over 85% are female, so all you gender-counters forgive me) for your restaurant, wouldn’t a basic criterion be a pleasant demeanor? Isn’t the job basically about getting people seated rapidly and politely (notwithstanding vaccine checks)? MORE
Insights on Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Hotels & resorts United StatesVik Krishnan shares his views on where the US hospitality sector is headed and poses five questions for industry leaders to consider postpandemic. MORE
Consulting is known for its business travel – so much, in fact, that it’s hard to describe your work in the industry without mentioning the constant flights and hotel nights. While it’s great to rack up points and enjoy nice … Continue Reading. The post 5 Travel Hacks as a Deloitte Consultant appeared first on Management Consulted. consulting resources consulting travel management consulting MORE
Union Street Guest House, a hotel in Hudson, New York, is being slammed for a policy they put in place in order to prohibit wedding parties from posting negative online reviews about them. This story has taken off today, making headlines, and the hotel has since removed this policy from their website and posted the following statement to Facebook: “The policy regarding wedding fines was put on our site as a tongue-in-cheek response to a wedding many years ago. MORE
New research indicates an extended and variable return for one of the hardest-hit industries. Insights on Travel, Transport & Infrastructure MORE
When it comes to choosing the hotel at your destination, given that you _have_ a choice (don’t underestimate how remote a client site can be…), it makes sense to choose not only by stars, price or name. Staying with hotels of big chains has the advantage that you can count on a certain standard for each hotel you get to. When it comes to non-chain hotels, I try to get to places that are new & modern. What criteria do you follow when choosing a hotel? MORE
We’ve already established that airlines, hotels and the like really want people like me to expense our way through their wares. Most hotels offer status-based floors and lounges , but they rarely keep the riffraff out in practice. Here are some ideas: Hotels should offer programs to “walk” elite guests to nicer properties. Hotel elite floors should offer real upgrades and amenities, and they should be guaranteed. What stealth luxuries could hotel chains offer you? MORE
When it comes to choosing the hotel at your destination, given that you _have_ a choice (don’t underestimate how remote a client site can be…), it makes sense to choose not only by stars, price or name. Staying with hotels of big chains has the advantage that you can count on a certain standard for each hotel you get to. When it comes to non-chain hotels, I try to get to places that are new & modern. What criteria do you follow when choosing a hotel? MORE
Its much easier to pick up a real estate agent at the hotel bar than try to convince the much-hounded hotties of IT they should bed down with you! Instead, we all settled on the back tables at the hotel bar, watching baseball before we kicked off our new project. We had a fantastic night on the town before cabbing back to the hotel. Hotels. (8). Hotels. (8). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Monday, April 8, 2013. One Last Hurrah for Her. MORE
To boost a hotel's bottom line, ask the bellhop MORE
I’ve spent more nights in hotels since the beginning of 2013 than the average nomad has spent in a tent in her lifetime. Most of them have been high end hotels, but a few have been more moderate chains, like the Marriott. Several of the most expensive hotels charged extra for internet. Would it spoil some vast eternal plan if a hotel that charges $400 a night would also add $4 worth of paper products to the experience and throw in free internet? About Linda. MORE
Between June 28 and July 4 at a Hilton hotel in Athens, transactions on a Bloomberg reporter's Visa credit card issued by Citigroup Inc. spokeswoman said that the Athens hotel had billed the customer in euros, not drachmas. Credit card processors have been planning, and are prepared for a return to the drachma. Bloomberg reports Long-Feared Currency Makes Fleeting Appearance on Reporter's Bill. MORE
As the longtime CEO of Otto Hotels & Resorts, now the second-largest lodging company in the world, he’d packed for hundreds of work trips before, but suits were his go-to. Otto had just finished a $9 billion acquisition of Beekman Hotels, which meant it now had nearly 4,800 hotels and just over a million rooms in 100 countries. “We need a brand architecture that isn’t confusing to customers, hotel owners, or even our own employees,” said Anita. MORE
In what may be an ISIS-related event, the Resorts World Hotel in Manila, the Philippines is in Lockdown Mode following gunfire and explosions. more…). Economics MORE
In early 2016 some numbers surfaced at a few of the Dorchester Collection’s luxury hotels that caught leadership’s attention: Complaints about our laundry service were on the rise, as was the cost of compensating guests for damage to their clothes. One hotel had to replace a fabulously expensive Givenchy evening gown. In another hotel there were 55 laundry-related complaints in January 2016 alone. MORE
conduct carries from using the expense policy, to accumulating hotel. Hotels. (8). Hotels. (8). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Tuesday, December 18, 2012. The Optimization of Leveraging. Courtesy of Alert Guest Blogger David Tang: Consultants. Were always optimizing, always leveraging -- always in the pursuit of. minimizing our workload while maximizing our lifestyle. This mode of. points, to creating our client deliverables. MORE
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NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Insights on Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Hotels & resorts Operations strategyBy redirecting business efforts, the head of Orascom Development found a path to company growth during the COVID-19 pandemic.
MishTalk
JULY 9, 2015
Between June 28 and July 4 at a Hilton hotel in Athens, transactions on a Bloomberg reporter's Visa credit card issued by Citigroup Inc. spokeswoman said that the Athens hotel had billed the customer in euros, not drachmas. Credit card processors have been planning, and are prepared for a return to the drachma. Bloomberg reports Long-Feared Currency Makes Fleeting Appearance on Reporter's Bill.
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McKinsey
JUNE 13, 2020
New research indicates an extended and variable return for one of the hardest-hit industries. Insights on Travel, Logistics & Transport Infrastructure
The Crazy Lives of Consultants
MAY 13, 2013
An Open Letter to Disgruntled Hotel Staff. Dear hotel staff, Do you know who I am? I am the reason your hotel can afford to offer a Starbucks, a restaurant, and a full-service bar. Customers like him regularly toss around hourly-wage-sized tips (and more) to the staff at your hotel, but only if youre not a prick too. Anyone with top elite status spent more than your annual salary at the hotel chain you work for, so that one guy represents your job. Hotels. (8).
McKinsey
JUNE 11, 2020
New research indicates an extended and variable return for one of the hardest-hit industries. Insights on Travel, Transport & Infrastructure
McKinsey & Company
APRIL 23, 2021
Insights on Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Hotels & resorts Tourism Travel agencies Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Western EuropeUnless steps are taken to stimulate recovery, more than $300 billion and 4.4 million jobs could be in jeopardy.
MishTalk
APRIL 8, 2014
Thus, I welcome the Wall Street Journal report Google Checks In to the Hotel Business. Google Inc (GOOG) is moving boldly to play a larger role in booking hotel rooms—at the risk of offending some of its most important advertisers. Google is adding more photos and reviews to its hotel listings, so they increasingly resemble those of travel search sites such as Priceline Group Inc. As far as I am concerned the more competition the better.
Melissa Agnes
AUGUST 4, 2014
Union Street Guest House, a hotel in Hudson, New York, is being slammed for a policy they put in place in order to prohibit wedding parties from posting negative online reviews about them. This story has taken off today, making headlines, and the hotel has since removed this policy from their website and posted the following statement to Facebook: “The policy regarding wedding fines was put on our site as a tongue-in-cheek response to a wedding many years ago.
McKinsey & Company
JUNE 14, 2021
Insights on Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Hotels & resorts United StatesVik Krishnan shares his views on where the US hospitality sector is headed and poses five questions for industry leaders to consider postpandemic.
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Youngme, Felix, and Mihir discuss some of the under-the-radar companies that they think people should be paying more attention to. Competition Disruptive innovation Technology Audio
Killer Consultant
SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
When it comes to choosing the hotel at your destination, given that you _have_ a choice (don’t underestimate how remote a client site can be…), it makes sense to choose not only by stars, price or name. Staying with hotels of big chains has the advantage that you can count on a certain standard for each hotel you get to. When it comes to non-chain hotels, I try to get to places that are new & modern. What criteria do you follow when choosing a hotel?
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Killer Consultant
SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
When it comes to choosing the hotel at your destination, given that you _have_ a choice (don’t underestimate how remote a client site can be…), it makes sense to choose not only by stars, price or name. Staying with hotels of big chains has the advantage that you can count on a certain standard for each hotel you get to. When it comes to non-chain hotels, I try to get to places that are new & modern. What criteria do you follow when choosing a hotel?
Harvard Business
MAY 18, 2018
At Dorchester Collection of ultra-luxury hotels, we use big data and analytics to help us improve our guest offerings and marketing. For instance, last year Metis looked at customer sentiment about Parisian luxury hotels. Metis discovered that guests had little loyalty to ours — Le Meurice and Hotel Plaza Athénée — or to our competitors’ hotels. According to Metis’ analysis, guests view Paris’s 5-star hotels as interchangeable.
MishTalk
SEPTEMBER 25, 2014
Sanction Madness Escalates: Italy Seizes Hotel of Putin Ally Two days ago sanction madness hit a new extreme: Italy seizes Putin ally Arkady Rotenberg’s property assets. The Italian tax police have seized €30m in assets, including a luxury hotel in Rome and two villas in Sardinia, controlled by Arkady Rotenberg, a longtime ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin targeted by US and EU sanctions. What''s Russia to do?
Harvard Business
AUGUST 2, 2016
Booking a hotel for business travel poses a quandary for many of us. The key is to remember that hotels – as well as most companies – offer what I call “backdoor” discounts. In the hotel industry, two popular hurdles are selling packages and employing uncertainty. It’s commonly believed within the hotel industry that business travelers will pay more than leisure vacationers. The critical missing information is the hotel name.
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
So allow me to suggest one radical idea: If you want to build a lifestyle brand, no matter the industry you’re in, consider building a hotel. ” It seems the innovative footwear company, based in Spain, decided that one way to deepen ties to its fashion-conscious customers was to build hotels, first in Barcelona, then in Berlin, whose look and experience would echo the brand’s attributes. Barry Winiker/Getty Images.
Harvard Business
MARCH 1, 2017
In early 2016 some numbers surfaced at a few of the Dorchester Collection’s luxury hotels that caught leadership’s attention: Complaints about our laundry service were on the rise, as was the cost of compensating guests for damage to their clothes. One hotel had to replace a fabulously expensive Givenchy evening gown. In another hotel there were 55 laundry-related complaints in January 2016 alone.
The Crazy Lives of Consultants
OCTOBER 11, 2007
Now I’m back at the hotel. I’m sitting in the hotel bar, and they don’t have wireless. So…I’m sitting here, sipping a glass of Estancia, eating some sort of standard hotel salad involving mysterious meat, dried cranberries and candied pecans, watching football on 12 different screens and listening to ‘Hootie and the Blowfish’ on the “Excessively Loud for the Bar” sound setting. I expect at least four in a hotel salad. HotelsI’m officially insane.
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 13, 2017
As the longtime CEO of Otto Hotels & Resorts, now the second-largest lodging company in the world, he’d packed for hundreds of work trips before, but suits were his go-to. Otto had just finished a $9 billion acquisition of Beekman Hotels, which meant it now had nearly 4,800 hotels and just over a million rooms in 100 countries. “We need a brand architecture that isn’t confusing to customers, hotel owners, or even our own employees,” said Anita.
1 to 1
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
One of the perks (or drawbacks depending on your perspective) of being a reporter is traveling on assignments. I''ve been sent to conferences in Cologne, Germany; New Orleans; Las Vegas, and Minneapolis among other cities in my career. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog. Customer Loyalty homepage
The Fearless Marketer
JULY 16, 2018
Uncategorized 11:59 analysis paralysis chair Christmas coach confusion despair English-language films Films Hospitality Recreation Hotels & Motels marketing paralyzed by writing stopped stuck worried worry writing a book You Got to MoveMy internal dialog started in 2008 when I decided to write another book to help me market my services. Here’s what my mind used to say: “Yeah, that’s a great idea for my second book! Let me think about it for awhile.”
1 to 1
OCTOBER 3, 2013
Imagine you''re the president of one of the largest economy hotel chains in America. How''s this for a challenge? Your goal: deliver a consistent, high-quality on-brand customer experience across all of your properties. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog. Customer Experience Customer Loyalty Customer Service Customer Strategy custoemrexperience forresterscustomerexperienceforum
The Crazy Lives of Consultants
MAY 30, 2014
We’ve already established that airlines, hotels and the like really want people like me to expense our way through their wares. Most hotels offer status-based floors and lounges , but they rarely keep the riffraff out in practice. Here are some ideas: Hotels should offer programs to “walk” elite guests to nicer properties. Hotel elite floors should offer real upgrades and amenities, and they should be guaranteed. What stealth luxuries could hotel chains offer you?
The Crazy Lives of Consultants
MAY 19, 2014
We make sure we maximize our airline and hotel status, we have a wallet full of credit cards, and we pick our travel providers accordingly. But airlines and hotels are aggressively devaluing their points and raising redemption rates. I spend over $100k annually on actual plane tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, and business meals. I want to be greeted by name when I return to the same hotel 10 times per year (a pox on the Hilton New York!)
The Crazy Lives of Consultants
MARCH 24, 2014
I stay at big chain hotels too often. Here’s what they said: Women like bed and breakfast accommodation because it removes them from the predatory world of business hotels. Apparently we men can get downright ugly after a week on the road and too many gin and tonics, making lewd comments, following women around the hotel, and generally being pigs. Some even soak their per-diem, banking the extra hundreds rather than handing it over to the hotel. Hotels
The Crazy Lives of Consultants
APRIL 8, 2013
Its much easier to pick up a real estate agent at the hotel bar than try to convince the much-hounded hotties of IT they should bed down with you! Instead, we all settled on the back tables at the hotel bar, watching baseball before we kicked off our new project. We had a fantastic night on the town before cabbing back to the hotel. Hotels. (8). Hotels. (8). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Monday, April 8, 2013. One Last Hurrah for Her.
The Crazy Lives of Consultants
DECEMBER 18, 2012
conduct carries from using the expense policy, to accumulating hotel. Hotels. (8). Hotels. (8). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Tuesday, December 18, 2012. The Optimization of Leveraging. Courtesy of Alert Guest Blogger David Tang: Consultants. Were always optimizing, always leveraging -- always in the pursuit of. minimizing our workload while maximizing our lifestyle. This mode of. points, to creating our client deliverables.
Consultant Ninja
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
When you are in consulting, you rack up a lot of frequent flyer miles and hotel points, but you dont have a lot of time to manage them. It is still in private beta, but I like what I see and Im using it to manage all of my (and Mrs. Ninjas) frequent flyer, hotel, car, and AMEX accounts. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja.
David A Fields
JANUARY 8, 2019
Are there consultants who love to sleep in impersonal hotel rooms, consume unhealthy food, miss family events and endure flight delays? Maybe. After all, there are people who love to eat crickets.It doesn’t amaze me that old, storied, brand name consulting firms primarily employ an on-site consulting model. After all, those firms are old. Their … Continued. The post Why On-Site Consulting Bites, And When to Do It Anyway appeared first on David A. Fields.
Henman Performance Executive
APRIL 25, 2013
I’ve spent more nights in hotels since the beginning of 2013 than the average nomad has spent in a tent in her lifetime. Most of them have been high end hotels, but a few have been more moderate chains, like the Marriott. Several of the most expensive hotels charged extra for internet. Would it spoil some vast eternal plan if a hotel that charges $400 a night would also add $4 worth of paper products to the experience and throw in free internet? About Linda.
Strategy+Business
DECEMBER 12, 2016
To boost a hotel's bottom line, ask the bellhop
Consultant Ninja
MARCH 17, 2009
Yesterday upon arrival at her hotel she received a fruit basket, a warm welcome from the staff who greeted her by first name, and the below card. One of our partners spends a fair amount of time in one city (not his home) and always stays at the sane hotel. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman.
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
MAY 26, 2020
Keith Ferrazzi is a two-time New York Times best selling author, Harvard Business School graduate, and the former youngest CMO of a Fortune 500 company at Starlight Hotels.
The Crazy Lives of Consultants
APRIL 15, 2008
When Youre Too Platinum with the Hotel. Like you, I have Platinum Status with just about ever hotel, airline, rental car agency, and liquor store in the Continental United States. Now, let me tell you a tale of a crazy consultant who officially reached "Too Platinum status with the Intercontinental Hotel Group. It all began at the hotel reception desk one rainy Monday evening in Connecticut. Zineb ( Nice Moroccan hotel receptionist ): Welcome back Crazy Consultant!!
The Crazy Lives of Consultants
FEBRUARY 5, 2008
I pick it up from the hotel valet in the morning, and the valet asks me, ".hey, I tried to crank some major urban music on my way out of the hotel driveway, but I could only find CNBC on the satellite radio. Hotels. (8). Hotels. (8). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Tuesday, February 5, 2008. Great Moments in Consulting.the only car left was one of those new Cadillacs that looks like it was made out of folded paper (hint - it was). Same price as the yugo.
Management Consulted
MARCH 28, 2019
It used to be that a consultant could wrack up thousands of reward points a year on airline tickets alone, not to mention hotels, ground transportation, and food. Consulting firm credit card use is changing. Credit card reward points are … Continue Reading. The post Firm Credit Card Use Changes In 2019 appeared first on Management Consulted. consulting news consulting travel management consulting
Management Consulted
APRIL 21, 2019
Consulting is known for its business travel – so much, in fact, that it’s hard to describe your work in the industry without mentioning the constant flights and hotel nights. While it’s great to rack up points and enjoy nice … Continue Reading. The post 5 Travel Hacks as a Deloitte Consultant appeared first on Management Consulted. consulting resources consulting travel management consulting
The Crazy Lives of Consultants
SEPTEMBER 9, 2007
HotelsWell well well.as if each and every one of us couldn't have single-handedly crafted this article ourselves. That said.it's s kind of nice to know if my opinion is WAY OFF as compared to everyone else. I'm a Marriott gal, personally, and occasionally can be considered a Starwood whore if The W is even tangentially involved. Anyway - check out what everyone else apparently thinks: From the current issue of Consulting Magazine.
Alan Weiss
OCTOBER 2, 2021
The first and last person you deal with in a hotel is the doorman, and in a restaurant the hostess. They need to be top quality, no matter how nice the hotel room or how good the food. When you hire a hostess (over 85% are female, so all you gender-counters forgive me) for your restaurant, wouldn’t a basic criterion be a pleasant demeanor? Isn’t the job basically about getting people seated rapidly and politely (notwithstanding vaccine checks)?
MishTalk
OCTOBER 2, 2017
A sniper, Stephen Craig Paddock, unleashed a hail of bullets on an outdoor country music festival from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Vegas hotel. Paddock killed at least 58 people as tens of thousands of concertgoers screamed and ran for their lives. This was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. more…). Economics
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