| | | | | | Announcing Cvent's Top 100 Meeting Hotels
in the United States
Finding the perfect venue is one of the most critical tasks meeting professionals face when planning an event, which is why we set out to find the "best of the best." Cvent's top 100 meeting hotels in the U.S. are tried-and-true properties that have been favorites among our meeting and event planners. These properties received an extensive amount of business via the Cvent Supplier Network in 2011, are consistently responsive to planners' requests and offer some of the best, and most dynamic, meeting space in the country. We now present the top 100 meeting hotels in the United States, as selected by data gathered from the Cvent Supplier Network. Read More |  |
| | | | | | | |  |  | Find Out How to Market Your Hotel Restaurant to Generate
Local Business
By: Sarah Vining |  | Your hotel's restaurant has potential to attract repeat local business with the right marketing strategy. When it comes to marketing hotel restaurants, hoteliers should understand what would drive locals to dine there in order to increase business.
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| | How Social Media is Ch-Ch-Changing the Guest Experience
By: Dede Mulligan | Facebook. YouTube. Twitter. LinkedIn. Foursquare. Social Media is not a fad and it is not going away. But, 25% of hotels are not using social media in their marketing efforts! This post highlights interesting facts about the top three social media sites.
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| Group Business Marketing Best Practices: Proposal Validation
By: Jayme Sobeck | This month's best practice tips target the new Proposal Validation Page that appears when you Submit Proposal. This post highlights ways to quickly navigate the page and submit your response.
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| The Problem with Meetings and Why You Should Care (Yes Hoteliers and CVBs I'm talking to you)
By: Dede Mulligan |  | Group meetings, conferences, and trade shows are very important pieces of your property's business. The US Travel Association has outlined 3 action items hospitality marketing organizations can use to help convince congress that meetings and events are a vital part of the US Economy.
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| Don't Put All Your Hospitality Eggs in One Basket!
By: Sherry Cummins |  | The old adage, "don't put all your eggs in one basket" is never more relevant than today in the hospitality industry. This post shares strategies for building relationships with the association and corporate meeting planners as well as he SMERF market to make sure you're not putting all your group business in one basket.
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| Room Block, Check. Attrition Clause, Check. Booking Outside
the Block? Complicated
By: Dede Mulligan |  | This post examines issues around room blocks and attrition clauses from the point of view of the hotel and CVB. This two post series hopes to resolve tensions between the four main groups involved in the room block: Planners, Attendees, Hotel, CVB.
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| The Spark of Brand Britain Will Shine During Olympics and Long After
By: Sherry Cummins |  | There is nothing quite like the Olympic Games to motivate a host country to spiffy up for "company," and the United Kingdom is no exception! Brand Britain will present to the world a renewed, refurbished and reinvented United Kingdom that will benefit UK capital London and surrounding cities increased group rooms business in the future.
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| | | | | | | |  |  | Join Cvent and Omer Minkara from the Aberdeen Group's Customer Management Technology division on May 9th at 2pm ET as we discuss key findings from the recent report, Customer Feedback Management: Leveraging the Voice of the Customer to Amplify Business Results. We'll be sharing strategies organizations can use to achieve Best-in-Class results such as 87% customer retention rate, 14.5% improvement in customer satisfaction year over year, and 21% reduction in customer inquire response times.
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