Notícias e Eventos: Recession

Value is a loaded word.The worth of something is subjective, depending who’s doing the evaluating and how. When it comes to trade shows, does the organizer’s investment determine their value? ...
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It seems that the business travel, meetings and events industry continues to evolve each year, and 2013 will likely reflect some significant shifts that will influence where, when and how we meet ...
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How economically challenged european countries can be a boon for U.S. Meetings"Spain’s Credit Crunch," "Greece’s Euro Woes," "Challenges for Europe’s Economic Core." These are just some of the recent news ...
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Sustainability practices bond employees (and attendees) to a company and drive innovation.Ask David Oakey, a carpet designer at Interface Flor, for his inspiration for 2003’s über-popular (and, now, oft knocked ...
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As EIBTM prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary, Event Planner Spain has spoken to the exhibition’s director Graeme Barnett about the next edition, scheduled to be held from 27-29 November 2012 at ...
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Last year the economy remained in "recovery mode," allowing the industry to focus its efforts more on marketing to the travel consumer and less on scaling back budgets for the first time ...
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When Ron Johnson planned a recent conference for the State Bar of California in Hong Kong, the group wanted to minimize its carbon footprint. Responding to this concern, he arranged the entire ...
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Times are tough for the incentives industry. With traces of the recession still lingering, companies have continued to keep their belts tight and their employees close to home. One U.S. company, however, ...
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The increase in air ticket sales for business travel indicates recovery for the sector in 2011, according de GEBTA Spain.After several years of recession, the FQ1 results, presented recently by ...
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In 2002, advertising was out and marketing solutions were in. You didn’t sell ad space, you sold benefits. Budgets were still tight from the last recession, but there was a sense that ...
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Emerging as a result of the recession, members-only, flash sale and group buying sites have gained traction and paramount growth over the past three years. Although originally associated with limited, discounted, higher-end ...
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I first introduced "Revenue Management for Dummies" in 2006. My goal was to break down some simple steps to improve hotel profitability by focusing on managing rates and inventory instead of centering ...
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More than twenty years ago, I read a book about break-it marketing which, from that point on, influenced the way I view the hotel marketing process. Break-it marketing changes the way we ...
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As the economy ambles its way back—minus the occasional stumble and (god forbid) the dreaded double-dip—some industries have awakened from forced hibernation to take measure of what (if anything) is left. Not ...
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Hoteliers, we are already in that time of year again: marketing budget planning season. In this environment of uncertainty and mixed economic news, many hotel owners and operators are finding themselves in ...
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I wish things would just get back to normal. I’ve heard that plea from many business leaders in the past few months. The recession appears all but over, but the ...
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I’ve read several articles lately which discuss rate building post recession. At least one of those articles provided suggestions which are completely opposite of acceptable revenue management principles. So, before you blindly ...
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Back in December 2003, Smith Travel Research published a much discussed article titled, “The Billion Dollar Leak - The Impact of The Merchant Model on US Hotel Profits.” In this article the ...
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In the last two years, the economy has taken a severe toll on our industry and its resources. In the resulting scramble to stay afloat, many hotels turned to every marketing and ...
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In 1989, Stephan Covey published a book entitled 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. If you haven’t read this book, I strongly suggest that you do. For me, it has made a ...
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U.S. President Barack Obama implemented change as his overall campaign theme, and it has very much become the theme of his administration. Now it seems the word change also applies to what ...
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For many hotels, their recession has been over for quite some time now. These hoteliers realized that recovery from a bad economy is a matter of attitude, more than reality, and that ...
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With 2009 over and hoteliers feeling more optimistic, HeBS sees two very different approaches to hotel Internet marketing in 2010: on one side, some hoteliers are still extremely cautious when spending marketing ...
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The recession's got a track record – a fact that convention centers throughout the world just might want to embrace. “This isn’t the first recession we’ve dealt with, [so] we ...
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This Site Index report addresses the impact of today’s economic climate on the motivational events industry. Specifically, it assesses the thoughts of both buyers and suppliers regarding the immediate impact of the ...
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This Just InI have just heard through the industry grapevine that Expedia has cut off negotiations with Choice Hotels and has removed Choice properties from its sites, which include Expedia.com and ...
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According to Smith Travel Research, the occupancy rates for luxury hotels worldwide dropped to 57% from January-July 2009, compared with an average occupancy rate of 71% for the same period in 2008, ...
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If someone were to ask me the most important quality of an effective hotel manager, it would be the ability to communicate clearly with hotel staff, superiors, peers, and guests. I believe ...
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While many meeting professionals struggle with declining corporate budgets, Tami Forero has been busier than ever. Her company, Forte Events in Colorado Springs, Colo., which specializes in corporate and nonprofit meetings, saw ...
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Here’s one of the things we do at Forrester Research: we interview as many marketers as we can about their plans, identify trends and project future likely conditions, and then we put ...
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The recession has stimulated many hoteliers to use some creative ways to drive sales. Their focal point is to create ways to capture sales in the most cost-effective means possible, with the ...
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In June 2008, HeBS presented an article titled Getting Back to the Basics: The Hotelier’s Internet Marketing Action Plan for a Difficult Economy. A year later, we would like ...
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There’s only one way to know whether or not your website is doing its job and that is to check the number of reservations it’s generating. If you have an independent hotel, ...
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The bursting of the economic bubble altered why and when people travel and has intensified the way they choose where to stay. But, fortunately, a few things haven't changed. Travel has slowed, ...
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In the tough year that 2009 is turning out to be for hoteliers, it is crucial to know where every marketing dollar is being spent. When reevaluating marketing plans – as most ...
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This year, there are few things that are certain, but one thing is for sure; the travel business pie is shrinking. To compound the problem, so many people, in the business and ...
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In 2008, Malaga's Tradeshow and Congress Centre registered a turnover of 6.83 million euros, with an incremental sales volume of 35.44 million euros since opening. Likewise, the centre's direct running costs were ...
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Promoted by EyeforTravel Latin America, the Travel Trade Forum's Latin American Summit for Tourist Services, which is due to be held from 21-22 April 2009, will address a number of crucial matters, ...
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Coinciding with Medvedev’s recent official visit to Spain, a collaboration agreement in the field of tourism was signed with the aim of developing the economic and tourism potential of both countries. However, ...
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Through the Chinese travel agency CYTS MICE, Michelin China chose the Catalonian company Ultramar to organize an incentive trip for over 500 of the company's executives, which took place in Barcelona from ...
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We live in a highly technical world; the Internet, blogs, webinars, PDAs ,and email; holy smokes, we sure are getting sophisticated. But, in the process, are we leaving the tried and true ...
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As stock markets crash, corporate profits plunge and meeting professionals worldwide brace for painful budget cuts, one planner is fighting back with a blog.Once a month, Alison Ray, CMP, founder ...
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It’s not pretty out there. As the economy grinds to a crawl and companies slash more meetings, planners are fighting aggressively for every shred of business. Yet, David DuBois, CMP, CAE, is ...
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Well, it’s déjà vu all over again, the hotel industry is facing severe business challenges; how we react to those challenges will determine how quickly we can return to some semblance of ...
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According to a study conducted by the Confederation of Business Associations of Baleares (CAEB), Spain is currently the fifth most popular international meeting destination in the World and an up-and-coming congress destination, ...
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As I write this, if the BBC is to be believed, Armageddon is imminent. Stock markets all over the globe are plummeting to levels not seen since Sept. 11, 2001. The sky ...
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