Midwest folks are hardy souls, built to last. Midwesterners embrace their four distinct seasons. Winters are embraced, like really embraced, with so many winter activities to choose from. Plus Midwesterners are die-hard sports fans. If you have ever seen fans tailgating in single digit temps, you know what I’m sayin’. Leaving winter behind, blissful beauty […]
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Motor courts & roadside motels for sale. A growing trend for the last decade or so has been the comeback of Mid-Century motor courts & roadside motels. From California to Maine, these thriving and surviving properties have been scooped up and refurbished. Auto touring became
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One of my favorite monthly newsletters I receive is from Adam Grant. American psychologist and author who is currently a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology. Granted May 2018 “To understand success, pay less attention to the final product and more to the mundane process. It’s way more
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Is your goal in 2018-19 to get more direct bookings? Your response should be a resounding YES. From a PhocusWire (powered by PhocusWright) article entitled; ‘Online travel agency fightback: Tactics to lure direct bookings’. By Max Starkov. Geared towards the hotel industry but there is some good advise that is universal for all lodging properties.
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Thank you, Linda Hayes, for sending me a most enticing and inspiring article, ‘The World of Breakfast–The shifting definition of what counts as breakfast food now embraces flavors from around the globe’. Explore breakfast going global. Trends in food are constantly evolving, new flavors and creative presentations are certain to elicit the WOW factor. Are
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Remember this catchphrase from TV’s The Brady Bunch? “Marsha, Marsha, Marsha”. Her sister Jan thought she got all the attention. Today it’s millennials, millennials, millennials, its’ all about millennials! What do millennials want? How much attention should we give them? One thing for sure, we must pay attention to them as active consumers with disposable
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Wellness tourism is a 500-billion-dollar segment of the travel industry. Looks like something innkeepers should consider integrating into their business plan. Don’t leave a piece of that 500-billion-dollar pie on the plate! AIHP Knowledge Sharing Summit and Marketplace, day two. I attended Julie Pankey’s session, Top Trends in Wellness Tourism, The Guest Experience. After many
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A sad week and a tragic loss. Scott Bushnell left this world Friday evening March 9, 2018. All of us at The B&B Team® express their condolences to Marilyn and the entire Bushnell family. Please take a moment and remember him and perhaps read and take heart in the remembrances of Scott from his ‘business family’.
One of the first sessions I attended at last week’s AIHP Knowledge Sharing Summit and Marketplace was presented by David Mayfield from ResNexus. Effective time Management. Some do it well, others not so much. But everyone can learn new techniques. In business and daily private life, time is precious, and worth the time to explore
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Online marketing made simple? I think this is an oxymoron (a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction). Any moron knows online marketing/social media is NOT simple, but I got your attention, right? In a recent article by Steve Olenski in Marketing Insider Group, ‘4 Online Marketing Tips That May Sound
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