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We wanted to use this article to highlight current intiatives from 5 of our Expert Partners. These are offers they are providing to help support the Hotel sector during this crisis

If this crisis has taught us in hotels anything, it is to think the unthinkable. Only a few short weeks a drop in RevPar might have been our biggest concern

COVID-19 has devastated the hotel group and event business. However, we feel now is the time to rise above the gloom and focus on what we can do to help hotels survive and prosper as we rebound

Hotel Sales teams should still be selling, developing relationships, and prospecting. The only thing to consider is where you focus. Localization in your sales processes is the key to minimizing impact.

The procedure is analogous to that of the simplified Displacement, that is, the value of the group must be added to what we have already On The Book (OTB) and we will obtain a first sales scenario

With COVID19 causing major events to be cancelled and large corporations banning employee travel it’s safe to say we’ve entered a period where “business as usual” simply won’t do

Each time we do a group quote we must evaluate the impact this has on the date of stay in the booking time, but also the selling of remaining capacity to the exclusion of other profitable segments

Easy to shop, easy to book, easy to plan, easy to communicate. In short, that’s what meeting planners love about hotels. It’s the job of sales and hotel marketing to ensure you are delivering

While data suggests a decrease in group bookings, hotel DOSMs hoping to tap into new or additional markets to shore up group business need to look outside the 3rd party meeting planner tools

The topic for this podcast discussion is MICE Revenue Management – what are the challenges and why this should be a much higher priority for hotels with meeting and events space