Aloft Hotels launches funky new website with gaming and high tech guest interaction
Aloft Hotels Launches Ground-Breaking Online Experience for the High-Tech, Gen Y Traveler. Aloft becomes the first hospitality brand to incorporate original gaming into its Web experience
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.® (NYSE:HOT) and its high-tech, style at a steal AloftSM Hotels brand, today announced the launch of the newly expanded Aloft Web site, www.alofthotels.com/explore , featuring a range of interactive features never before developed by a hospitality brand. The site includes a guided insider’s tour of the hotel, maps and city guides for each location and engages visitors through a series of original, branded games that bring the Aloft experience to life.
World Environment Day - GATE Hotel School Nepal Creates Awareness in Kathmandu
Mr. Giuseppe Luizi Bazzani is a notable hotelier, who has served as a General Manager in over a dozen 5-star hotels, including such global brands as the Waldorf Astoria – New York, Swiss hotels around the world, Hilton London, Sweden, Turkey, Tel Aviv and many more. Mr. Bazzani has also lectured in many universities and hotel schools around the world, including the Cornell University, during his 60-year long hospitality career. When he visited GATE College in March 2009 for his 6-week assignment by referral through a Swiss contact, he was in for a surprise! It was an ordinary Tuesday morning, until all of a sudden he saw the entire GATE College student community dressed in T-shirts, masks and gloves, and armed with brooms, bins and buckets, heading towards the street of Mandikhatar, instead of their classrooms for their regular classes, cooking, and serving.
Swiss Hotel Schools - 97 new Hoteliers MADE at SSTH Passugg
Some more fond memories...and fresh Hotel Management Graduate news from Passugg! At the diploma ceremony of the SSTH Swiss School of Tourism and Hospitality 97 hoteliers celebrated the awarded diploma on May 27th, 2009! The ceremony took place on the school campus in Passugg.
Use social media to promote your Hotel’s website and get more reservations today
Online conversations regarding your hotel continually reinforce its online perception to your target audience. Therefore the importance of tactical social media and blogging activities cannot be ignored. Hotels are finding out the hard way that conversations about them are happening online and online communities can be breeding grounds for speculation and rumours. Using social media to manage this risk and to deliver positives to counteract any negatives can be more than just effective in terms of negating any bad press, but also to build your positive “brand noise” and create “brand buzz” around your hotel’s website.
The first realistic Hotelier Business Simulation - Test your Hotel CEO Skills with this game!
If you've always dreamed of sitting at the helm of your global hotel empire...and terms like RevPAR, GOPPAR, bottom line profits and market share come easy, then perhaps it's time you put your skills to the test! YoungHotelier.com is proud to introduce the first-ever real-time real-world business simulation for the Hotel Industry, in affiliation with Tycoon Systems, Inc.
Hotel Management Careers - There’s Room at the Inn
A brief look at the wonderful world of hospitality, some challenges for the industry, and a few reasons why you might consider it as a career - by Andrew Lo
The word hospitality derives from the Latin verb hospitare, meaning “to receive as a guest.” Hospitality may bring to mind the times your relatives stayed over at your home, or the times your family went on vacation and stayed at a resort or hotel. As a guest, what do you need? Traditionally, the requirements of a guest are food, drink, and shelter. If the word hospitality refers to the provision of these three necessities to travelers, then the industry consists of businesses that do this. Some hosts, however, also provide entertainment for their guests, like on a cruise ship or a casino. The entertainment industry is far-reaching, including everything from theme parks to sports events. Unlike hospitality, entertainment is not associated with the provision of a traveler’s basic needs, and is a whole separate industry altogether.
The hospitality industry is, by itself, a giant 3.5 trillion dollar service sector and comprises hotels, resorts, clubs, restaurants, catering, meeting and event planning. According to the International Hotel & Restaurant Association, the hospitality industry includes 300,000 hotels, 8 million restaurants, and employs 60 million people worldwide. Read the entire article here
The results are out for the 21st Annual Freddie Awards, which are designed to award excellence among frequent travel programs in the airline, hotel and credit card industries. Lots of familiar names again, with SPG (Starwood Hotels) bagging 8 awards in 7 categories. View the complete list of winners here.
Swiss Education - Certificate in Tourism Marketing & Product Innovation
HTW Switzerland has announced a new certificate program, focusing on Tourism Marketing and Product Innovation. More details and a presentation provided to us is included below...the program runs from August 10 – 29, 2009
Hotel Internet Photos and Videos - The power and reach of user generated content
A picture may be worth a thousand words…but most hotel PR & Marketing managers today would be at a loss for words at the plague of user generated photos out on the Internet today. Hoteliers may need to get used to the fact that competing with their ‘official’ previews of what to expect, past guests have provided quite an unflattering visual footprint for those to follow. It’s no secret that hotels pay thousands of dollars for painstakingly taken, doctored photos that would entice even the most hardened globetrotter to positively drool in anticipation…and hit that book button. Great pictures DO sell.
Videos - Recession Job Hunting Tips and what NOT to do during a Job Interview
Recession got you down? Hunting for a job? Then these tips should be just what the doctor ordered. The YoungHotelier.com and Hot Hoteliers team sit down with Craig Cochran and Alex Rawson from Movenpick for a healthy dose of real-world wisdom.
The first video offers some great advice on hunting for a job during the current economic downturn – some basic pointers that we may tend to forget when times get tough!
Hospitality Education: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
GATE – Global Academy of Tourism & Hospitality Education organized 3 days workshop on “Teaching yesterday, today and tomorrow” covering contemporary issues such as how to meet the expectation of hospitality employers in today’s competitive job market and how to equip the hospitality educators and trainers to cope with teaching requirements and modern methodology for tomorrow. The program was designed and lead by a senior expert Mr. Giuseppe Luizzi Bazzani from Swiss Contact (Switzerland). Mr. Bazzani has over four decades of global expertise in hospitality operation and education. Mr. Bazzani has been a guest lecture in Cornell University, IMI – Luzern and successfully consulted dozens of mega hotel projects and hotel school projects around the world.
The renowned Food Festival at SSTH Passugg returns this May
Food. Culture. Entertainment. On Saturday, May 2, 2009 the Swiss School of Tourism and Hospitality will open the doors to the public for the 7th annual Food Festival. Over 2000 guest will be able to discover a world of specialities and taste a variety of national dishes from 20 different countries on the school campus. The delicious food and the decorated stands spread an exotic feeling and a relaxing atmosphere around the campus of the Swiss School of Tourism and Hospitality.
GATE Hotel School Students in Nepal lead a clean-up campaign in Kathmandu
Time to Think about our Environment: GATE College Leads a Cleaning Campaign in Kathmandu: If you walk 900 Meters north from the bustling Dhumbarahi, Kathmandu (Ring road), you will find GATE – Global Academy of Tourism & Hospitality Education, a college that was established about a year ago. On the way, you will pass bamboo-carved dustbins hanging around the electric poles. Unlike other parts of the city, this road seems relatively clean and you will wonder what happened to this part of town. It’s not that the municipality is working efficiently and it’s not because many important people live in this area, but because of a cleaning campaign that was initiated by students some five months ago.
Sneak Peek at Denizen Hotels - Hilton Hotels launches new lifestyle brand
Hilton has joined the fray and launched a brand new lifestyle brand, called Denizen Hotels. The brand is an attempt to capture the growing market segment that represents the increasingly well-travelled and modern professional. Ross Klein, originally with Starwood Hotels & Resorts (well known for their unique luxury brands, from W Hotels to Aloft to Element to St.Regis) now heads up branding at Hilton and is the key figure behind this launch.
Info received from Hilton / Ogilvy today...
HILTON HOTELS CORPORATION UNVEILS NEW GLOBAL LIFESTYLE BRAND: DENIZEN HOTELS (TM): New Brand Designed to Appeal to Globally-Conscious Modern Travelers. Hilton Hotels Corporation (Hilton) announced today the addition of Denizen Hotels, a global lifestyle brand, to the Hilton Family of Brands. Appearing throughout the world in international social epicenters, Denizen Hotels will cater to globally-conscious modern travelers of the world.
