Please consider visiting the CHTA’s Small Hotels Retreat September 30 through October 2 in St. Thomas.
There will be a special “marketing day”, organized by HSMAI, on October 2nd.
This, in lieu of the previous HSMAI Caribbean Strategy Conference.
Archive for August, 2009
Small Hotels Retreat September 30
Thursday, August 13th, 2009Warm Bodies in Beds thru Twitter?
Thursday, August 13th, 2009A new Twitter application invites users to publicly request hotels for specific dates and locations, giving hoteliers a chance to grab business. Users input their request parameters on TwiHotels.com, and the site then tweets the room requests. Several hoteliers are already monitoring the twihotels feed and would theoretically respond to the requesting person with relevant offers.
Click here to read more.
The Recession and the bottom lines of Caribbean hotels
Thursday, August 13th, 2009On and off we hear rumors about the current hotel industry. Figures from CTO and CHTA also show how the Caribbean region is performing compared to last year. PFK shows in the article below on hotels’ net results trend, their occupancies , revenue and comparisons with the US market hotels.
What do YOU think as hotel in Curacao or somewhere else in the Caribbean? Did these turbulent times deal a big blow to bottom lines of Caribbean hotels? Is it only branded hotels, big hotels, smaller hotels or all together? Read and comment!
Survey for Hotels and their partners
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009Terrapinn, organisers of the World Economy & Budget Hotels Congress, are undertaking a major survey of the world’s hotels and their partners.
The survey aims to identify key trends and opportunities in this growing sector.
We would like your contribution to this, and would be grateful if you could complete the attached survey (which should take about two minutes). As a ‘thank you’, we’ll send you a copy of the results once they’ve been collated.