If you were to go to the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, California, you’d notice the hotel has around 25 floors. Hotel Nikko is a Japanese hotel brand. MORE
Facebook wants to be ubiquitous with your entire web experience, but to use another analogy; they’re out to build the web’s version of the Hotel California. Today’s guest post comes from a good friend of mine, Tony Saucier , director of social media at Life Time Fitness. MORE
For Trump Hotels, it’s everything. What’s the point of staying at a luxury hotel if you can’t Instagram your room’s million-dollar view? The travel site Hipmunk recently announced that Trump Hotel bookings had declined nearly 60 percent in the first half of 2016. MORE
” Of course, the guy lounging by the Marriott Hotel pool, tablet in hand connected to the Internet via his cellular network, has no intention of fomenting an uprising against hotel management. Marriott Hotels Russia Vladimir Putin MORE
Then, since my laptop was useless without a Wi-Fi connection, I went to the hotel lobby and finished the messages at a stand-up Internet kiosk with one arm guarding my work S.A.T.-style. MORE
The event was sponsored by Intercontinental Hotels and Bacardi , and the publicized goal was to choose a signature specialty cocktail that will be showcased in the hotels next year. The hotel chain’s goal was fairly clear to me from the outset. MORE
Tony and Jan Jenkinson, had been on their way to Oxford to visit family, when they stopped off at a Blackpool hotel to split up their journey. The couple then felt they received a poor quality of service at the hotel and in turn wrote a negative review on Tripadvisor. The hotel then decided to take £100 off their card as a fine for this review. The Broadway Hotel had imposed the fine on the couple after they described the hotel as a “rotten stinking hovel.” MORE
The forum, which was held at the beautiful Hilton Hotel in downtown Portland, featured national and regional healthcare experts discussing the delivery of healthcare in the future- an ever-changing topic. […]. MORE
Last weekend I was kindly invited to Ox Pasture Hall to sample the hotel and see what I thought about it and the surrounding area. The hotel is widely known to boast an excellent reputation for outstanding food with a fine dining feel and excellent service. MORE
If you’ve ever stayed at any Ritz-Carlton hotel, you know just how terrific they are. They had Q-tips (most hotels don’t)! What terrific public relations ambassadors they are for the hotel. MORE
In the travel industry, the IoT is being used in concert with branded mobile apps — typically paired with beacons that track and gather information from customers using mobile devices in airports, hotels, transit centers, etc. With a bit more order and understanding, apps can better predict airfare pricing and trends, while hotels can store and analyze frequent guests’ preferences — via website or app — and implement them for future stays. MORE
Many are using digital travel technology, a trend that is changing the way consumers interact with airlines, hotel chains and other companies. While many airlines and hotels have created booking apps, those apps have not caught on. MORE
Uncategorized Birdman Boyhood business Differentiation Film Grand Budapest Hotel Movies Oscars PR public relations storytelling Takeaways Wes Anderson The Oscars are finally (almost) here! Every year I look forward to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood’s star-studded event. MORE
In Orlando, all the cool kids take the Disney Magical Express from the airport to their Disney hotels, because really, what’s cooler than catching a ride with Mickey? On the way to your hotel, Disney has its DME-TV playing to show you everything you need to see, eat, ride, try, etc., MORE
I’ve just found my new default hotel whenever I’m in Los Angeles.”. Despite only officially being available in Australia, New Zealand the USA Pokémon Go has taken the world by storm. So how is the PR and communications world responding? I’ve seen a couple of great examples. MORE
Cision’s study found that families are most concerned about price, since they are often paying for multiple airline tickets, meals and hotel rooms. Planning decision drivers vary widely depending on the purpose of travel and the age/life stage of the traveler. MORE
Develop an idiosyncratic routine": Scott Guthrie used to take a 2.5-hour trip to the park in Sydney, one top businessman bought a $4,000 there-and-back business class flight to Tokyo to write a book, Maya Angelou did all her best scribing in anonymous hotel rooms, hired specifically for this purpose. MORE
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
I had to dip my toes in the Persian Gulf – and take a picture with the only 7 star hotel in the world, The Burj Al Arab. I loved the title of the Hotel Al Qasr’s concierge reception. This was one of the views from my hotel room.). MORE
While most hotels and airlines have yet to adopt wearable technology, one major brand has: Disney. Nothing is more frustrating than arriving at a hotel after a long trek only to find that your room isn’t ready. MORE
As a newbie publicist, I wasn’t sure when to push back on client demands to jam-pack the itinerary, so my first trip had lots of early morning wake-up calls, hotel site visits, lengthy dinners with hotel managers that ran late and absolutely no free time. No boring hotel site visits! MORE
Owners of some hotels and restaurants love it because it has cost-effectively leveled the playing field between small and large destinations and attractions. Above all, reviews are driven by customers and their experiences with the hotel, restaurant or attraction that they are patronizing. MORE
We did the usual extensive search online and TripAdvisor and came across an adults only hotel called Applegarth Hotel which is located about a mile from the boat port of Bowness. To the back of the hotel is a quiet field which means you aren’t overlooked. MORE
Next week we’ll be heading down to the Haymarket Hotel for the awards night, where we’ll find out […]. Last week we announced that we’ve been involved in helping to run the UK Talent Unleashed Awards and yesterday we announced our shortlist. MORE
The move garnered some positive feedback for the hotel chain on Twitter: @Probstisms , maybe we should switch from @Marriott to @HiltonHotels ! Choice Hotels announced that it would extend its parental leave and family care benefits in the United States. MORE
Three months ago, the Federal Communications Commission fined the hotel chain $600,000 for blocking guests’ access to personal Wi-Fi hotspots at a Nashville hotel. As a matter of fact, we invite and encourage our guests to use these Internet connectivity devices in our hotels. 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. MORE
Whether a hotel is small, inexpensive, luxury, a resort, near a national park, or something else, PR should be a primary concern for any destination. For small hotels, using social media platforms is a good way to do some targeted advertising without spending a lot of money. MORE
For many, the name MGM Resorts International conjures up images of the big green hotel on the Las Vegas strip, aka the MGM Grand. In the case of MGM Resorts International, there are hotels that serve distinct audiences. Hotel chains have operated similar programs for years. MORE
It offered as much as $800 and a hotel stay to anyone who would volunteer to take a later flight, but it had no takers. The public relations team at United had probably just started to breathe easy after the infamous “leggings” crisis when a second PR disaster hit. MORE
BCV for Hotel Del Coronado, Connecting Offline and Online Engagement. Joie de Vivre Hotels/Commune Hotels + Resorts, Joie de Vivre Hotels #CoastalCaravan Campaign. Joie de Vivre Hotels, #CoastalCaravan Campaign. MORE
Reports say Trump Hotels is among the first to suffer. This week, execs announced that its newest hotels will no longer feature Trump’s name—long a hallmark of the company’s properties. The new hotel line—a luxury brand marketed to millennials—will be called Scion. MORE
The CIPR PRide Awards for the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region are hosted yearly at the Queens Hotel in Leeds, and recognise… Tags: agency, year, pr, leeds, yorkshire, team, work, relations, public Prohibition is growing and hiring. MORE
The company announced via an AdWords blog post new features that will affect how users can search for flights, hotels and broad shopping terms like “women’s athletic clothing” on their mobile devices. MORE
Last week I wrote about the Hotel that had a policy where they would fine newlyweds $500 for negative online reviews , whether written by the newlyweds or by any of their wedding guests. (If MORE
I was working as a journalist in Honolulu, where I was born and raised, and someone offered me the position of PR Director of the Hotel Inter-Continental Maui in Wailea. My first job in New York was at a travel PR agency, which hired me because of my PR and hotel industry experience. MORE
And if it’s far enough away, you will need to start thinking about hotel and per diem expenses during their trip. “What? 1500.00 to hire a photographer? It’s just a picture. Anyone with a phone can do this. Tell you what, I’m willing to shell out 200 bucks. MORE
During our “Creating a win-win relationship with the media” panel, a recurring theme from brand leaders from Adobe, Kimpton Hotels and Evite were these simple rules. “You cannot compete for the future if you make decisions about tomorrow based on yesterday.” MORE
She currently works for Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City, handling internal communications. For me, gaining the Accreditation in Public Relations was a long process that was all about timing and never giving up. I’m thankful for the process because I truly learned so much along the way. MORE
a hotel. Determining whether to use “a” versus “an” should not be confusing, but it is. This week, I had a prolonged discussion with a co-worker about why “an MRI” is correct and “a MRI” is not. It turns out that many of us were taught wrong the wrong rules for use of the indefinite articles. MORE
The CIPR PRide Awards for the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region are hosted yearly at the Queens Hotel in Leeds, and recognise… Tags: prohibition, pr, news, staff, industry, time, work The 'Micky Mouse' degree. Name: Ella Sykes. Position: Account Director. MORE
Hotels Related Topics 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.
Norton's Notes
AUGUST 31, 2014
Last weekend I was kindly invited to Ox Pasture Hall to sample the hotel and see what I thought about it and the surrounding area. The hotel is widely known to boast an excellent reputation for outstanding food with a fine dining feel and excellent service.
Communications Conversations
MAY 15, 2015
Facebook wants to be ubiquitous with your entire web experience, but to use another analogy; they’re out to build the web’s version of the Hotel California. Today’s guest post comes from a good friend of mine, Tony Saucier , director of social media at Life Time Fitness.
PR Daily
JULY 14, 2016
The company announced via an AdWords blog post new features that will affect how users can search for flights, hotels and broad shopping terms like “women’s athletic clothing” on their mobile devices.
PR Daily
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Reports say Trump Hotels is among the first to suffer. This week, execs announced that its newest hotels will no longer feature Trump’s name—long a hallmark of the company’s properties. The new hotel line—a luxury brand marketed to millennials—will be called Scion.
Norton's Notes
JULY 11, 2016
We did the usual extensive search online and TripAdvisor and came across an adults only hotel called Applegarth Hotel which is located about a mile from the boat port of Bowness. To the back of the hotel is a quiet field which means you aren’t overlooked.
5W PR
APRIL 4, 2017
Whether a hotel is small, inexpensive, luxury, a resort, near a national park, or something else, PR should be a primary concern for any destination. For small hotels, using social media platforms is a good way to do some targeted advertising without spending a lot of money.
Norton's Notes
DECEMBER 10, 2014
Tony and Jan Jenkinson, had been on their way to Oxford to visit family, when they stopped off at a Blackpool hotel to split up their journey. The couple then felt they received a poor quality of service at the hotel and in turn wrote a negative review on Tripadvisor. The hotel then decided to take £100 off their card as a fine for this review. The Broadway Hotel had imposed the fine on the couple after they described the hotel as a “rotten stinking hovel.”
AirPR
FEBRUARY 3, 2015
Last week, I had the pleasure of spending 14 hours talking, thinking, and theorizing about the future of Big Data at Dell’s 1-5-10 Big Data event at San Francisco’s Clift Hotel.
PR Daily
OCTOBER 13, 2016
The move garnered some positive feedback for the hotel chain on Twitter: @Probstisms , maybe we should switch from @Marriott to @HiltonHotels ! Choice Hotels announced that it would extend its parental leave and family care benefits in the United States.
Cision
AUGUST 12, 2015
Many are using digital travel technology, a trend that is changing the way consumers interact with airlines, hotel chains and other companies. While many airlines and hotels have created booking apps, those apps have not caught on.
Cision
MAY 16, 2017
In the travel industry, the IoT is being used in concert with branded mobile apps — typically paired with beacons that track and gather information from customers using mobile devices in airports, hotels, transit centers, etc. With a bit more order and understanding, apps can better predict airfare pricing and trends, while hotels can store and analyze frequent guests’ preferences — via website or app — and implement them for future stays.
Cision
MARCH 31, 2016
For many, the name MGM Resorts International conjures up images of the big green hotel on the Las Vegas strip, aka the MGM Grand. In the case of MGM Resorts International, there are hotels that serve distinct audiences. Hotel chains have operated similar programs for years.
Flatiron Communications
DECEMBER 31, 2014
” Of course, the guy lounging by the Marriott Hotel pool, tablet in hand connected to the Internet via his cellular network, has no intention of fomenting an uprising against hotel management. Marriott Hotels Russia Vladimir Putin
Cision
AUGUST 14, 2015
While most hotels and airlines have yet to adopt wearable technology, one major brand has: Disney. Nothing is more frustrating than arriving at a hotel after a long trek only to find that your room isn’t ready.
PR in High Definition
OCTOBER 14, 2014
Next week we’ll be heading down to the Haymarket Hotel for the awards night, where we’ll find out […]. Last week we announced that we’ve been involved in helping to run the UK Talent Unleashed Awards and yesterday we announced our shortlist.
Melissa Agnes
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
I had to dip my toes in the Persian Gulf – and take a picture with the only 7 star hotel in the world, The Burj Al Arab. I loved the title of the Hotel Al Qasr’s concierge reception. This was one of the views from my hotel room.).
Melissa Agnes
AUGUST 11, 2014
Last week I wrote about the Hotel that had a policy where they would fine newlyweds $500 for negative online reviews , whether written by the newlyweds or by any of their wedding guests. (If
ReimaginePR
FEBRUARY 20, 2016
And if it’s far enough away, you will need to start thinking about hotel and per diem expenses during their trip. “What? 1500.00 to hire a photographer? It’s just a picture. Anyone with a phone can do this. Tell you what, I’m willing to shell out 200 bucks.
ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications
APRIL 10, 2017
It offered as much as $800 and a hotel stay to anyone who would volunteer to take a later flight, but it had no takers. The public relations team at United had probably just started to breathe easy after the infamous “leggings” crisis when a second PR disaster hit.
Cision
MAY 21, 2015
As a newbie publicist, I wasn’t sure when to push back on client demands to jam-pack the itinerary, so my first trip had lots of early morning wake-up calls, hotel site visits, lengthy dinners with hotel managers that ran late and absolutely no free time. No boring hotel site visits!
Prohibition
APRIL 29, 2017
The CIPR PRide Awards for the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region are hosted yearly at the Queens Hotel in Leeds, and recognise… Tags: agency, year, pr, leeds, yorkshire, team, work, relations, public Prohibition is growing and hiring.
David PR Group
APRIL 8, 2016
Owners of some hotels and restaurants love it because it has cost-effectively leveled the playing field between small and large destinations and attractions. Above all, reviews are driven by customers and their experiences with the hotel, restaurant or attraction that they are patronizing.
Waxing UnLyrical
MAY 11, 2012
If you’ve ever stayed at any Ritz-Carlton hotel, you know just how terrific they are. They had Q-tips (most hotels don’t)! What terrific public relations ambassadors they are for the hotel.
Cision
MAY 4, 2017
During our “Creating a win-win relationship with the media” panel, a recurring theme from brand leaders from Adobe, Kimpton Hotels and Evite were these simple rules. “You cannot compete for the future if you make decisions about tomorrow based on yesterday.”
LTPR
OCTOBER 7, 2015
The forum, which was held at the beautiful Hilton Hotel in downtown Portland, featured national and regional healthcare experts discussing the delivery of healthcare in the future- an ever-changing topic. […].
PRSay
JUNE 2, 2017
I was working as a journalist in Honolulu, where I was born and raised, and someone offered me the position of PR Director of the Hotel Inter-Continental Maui in Wailea. My first job in New York was at a travel PR agency, which hired me because of my PR and hotel industry experience.
Cision
JULY 1, 2015
Then, since my laptop was useless without a Wi-Fi connection, I went to the hotel lobby and finished the messages at a stand-up Internet kiosk with one arm guarding my work S.A.T.-style.
Cision
MAY 18, 2017
One of my clients was a hotel located near an amusement park. This post is an excerpt from the e-book, Listen: 5 Social Audiences Brands Can’t Afford to Ignore. .
Stuart Bruce
JULY 12, 2016
I’ve just found my new default hotel whenever I’m in Los Angeles.”. Despite only officially being available in Australia, New Zealand the USA Pokémon Go has taken the world by storm. So how is the PR and communications world responding? I’ve seen a couple of great examples.
ZudePR
JUNE 6, 2016
Develop an idiosyncratic routine": Scott Guthrie used to take a 2.5-hour trip to the park in Sydney, one top businessman bought a $4,000 there-and-back business class flight to Tokyo to write a book, Maya Angelou did all her best scribing in anonymous hotel rooms, hired specifically for this purpose.
Prohibition
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
The CIPR PRide Awards for the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region are hosted yearly at the Queens Hotel in Leeds, and recognise… Tags: prohibition, pr, news, staff, industry, time, work The 'Micky Mouse' degree. Name: Ella Sykes. Position: Account Director.
PR Daily
JANUARY 27, 2015
In Orlando, all the cool kids take the Disney Magical Express from the airport to their Disney hotels, because really, what’s cooler than catching a ride with Mickey? On the way to your hotel, Disney has its DME-TV playing to show you everything you need to see, eat, ride, try, etc.,
PRSay
JULY 25, 2016
She currently works for Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City, handling internal communications. For me, gaining the Accreditation in Public Relations was a long process that was all about timing and never giving up. I’m thankful for the process because I truly learned so much along the way.
PR Daily
DECEMBER 16, 2014
BCV for Hotel Del Coronado, Connecting Offline and Online Engagement. Joie de Vivre Hotels/Commune Hotels + Resorts, Joie de Vivre Hotels #CoastalCaravan Campaign. Joie de Vivre Hotels, #CoastalCaravan Campaign.
Cision
SEPTEMBER 2, 2015
Cision’s study found that families are most concerned about price, since they are often paying for multiple airline tickets, meals and hotel rooms. Planning decision drivers vary widely depending on the purpose of travel and the age/life stage of the traveler.
Cision
MAY 22, 2015
The fact that these activities take place over drinks at a bar or in the corner of a hotel ballroom doesn’t make them any less important. This is a guest post by Nova Halliwell, a PR professional in New York City.
Shift Communications
DECEMBER 1, 2015
If you were to go to the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, California, you’d notice the hotel has around 25 floors. Hotel Nikko is a Japanese hotel brand.
PR Daily
AUGUST 18, 2015
a hotel. Determining whether to use “a” versus “an” should not be confusing, but it is. This week, I had a prolonged discussion with a co-worker about why “an MRI” is correct and “a MRI” is not. It turns out that many of us were taught wrong the wrong rules for use of the indefinite articles.
PR Daily
JANUARY 6, 2015
Three months ago, the Federal Communications Commission fined the hotel chain $600,000 for blocking guests’ access to personal Wi-Fi hotspots at a Nashville hotel. As a matter of fact, we invite and encourage our guests to use these Internet connectivity devices in our hotels.
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