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Best practices for online hotel marketing
How do you get more online bookings and scale up your hotel revenue? As simple as the question may sound, as you probably well realize, the answers can be tricky and challenging. And these days, that's where digital marketing comes in. With the boom in both the Internet and the hospitality industry, digital marketing has become a crucial part of the hotel business. Creating an effective presence online to increase your bookings and hence revenue is no longer just an option, it's a necessity.…
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Five Star, Five Diamond Colorado Resort Makes History Once Again
Colorado Springs, CO (April 15, 2010)… From 12:01AM Friday, April 16 to Midnight Sunday, April 18, book a luxury stay in 2010 at the Five Star, Five Diamond BROADMOOR in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for half the price.
Make a reservation for a vacation in 2010 and receive 50% off all room, suite and BROADMOOR Cottages rates. Choose Kids Eat Free* where children 10 and under eat free from the youth menu at Tavern, Charles Court, Summit, Penrose Room, Golf Club and Lake Terrace, or choose a Complimentary Day Pass to The Spa at The BROADMOOR** that includes the aromatherapy room, dry saunas, steam rooms, the Mountain View room, men's and ladies' fireplace lounges, as well as standard showers and locker facilities.
This 72 hour sale is one-time-only in 2010 offering the lowest rates available. It will not be available at any other time this year.
Reserve by calling 800.634.7711 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, or book on line at broadmoor.com by clicking on “Packages and Specials.”
*Excludes Sunday Brunch.
**Spa day pass is for one time use during stay per person (must be 16 yrs or older).
Not available for groups or packages. Subject to availability. Some restrictions apply.
ABOUT The BROADMOOR:
The Broadmoor, located at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the longest consecutive winner of the AAA Five-Diamond and Forbes/Mobil Travel Guide Five Star awards for excellence. Opened in 1918, The Broadmoor is situated on 3,000 acres with 744 hotel rooms and suites surrounding Cheyenne Lake, three championship golf courses, a Forbes/Mobil Travel Guide Five Star Spa and Fitness Center, plus 18 restaurants, lounges and bars including Colorado’s only Five Star, Five Diamond restaurant, Penrose Room.
Contact: Allison Scott, Director of Communications
The BROADMOOR
ascott@broadmoor.com
719.577.5718
www.broadmoor.com
High resolution images are available on request
Our travellers book directly with our direct-linked travel trade clients.
If you want them see your travel offers and buy directly from you, this information may be of interest to you and your travel-trade connections.
We are expanding some of our travel categories and invite you to review this opportunity to target direct bookings for your own travel sales.
TheTopTravelClub.com has over 400 independent travel businesses cumulatively offering 10's of 1000's of direct booking discounts for travel in over 80 countries to our members and visitors.
We would like to offer your travel products and any other services to our members and visitors. We never charge any travel business for any of our services.
You have total control of the offer and can add, change or delete at any time ....just notify us of any link or contact changes.
Simply offer direct booking discounts ( the commissions/fees that you would normally pay to a middleman) or special offers that are only available to our members and they will 'go direct' to you for all bookings, information and payments using the Destination and Travel Category links on our site. You deal directly with them and have the opportunity to offer other products and services. We do not sell travel or take reservations!
You can use our own unique TopTravelVouchers or you can create a unique page on your own website only available to our members.
For your due diligence, please go to our website at www.TheTopTravelClub.com
1...Take a look around.
2...Scroll to the bottom of our front page for a randomly selected list of all of our travel trade clients or select by destination or category.
3...You can then decide on how many links you want to have by destination or activity category (no limit).
4...Find the link 'add your site' at the top of our front page to complete our online application form.
5...You can offer a '%' or a 'Value' amount.
Now you can see that we have a very simple but very cost-effective way of getting more direct bookings for you. And you do not pay us anything!
Our income is 100% membership dues. We do not earn any income from affliliates or non-client ads (google etc) that may detract from your links.
As a bonus for joining us, we will offer you a free family membership ($99usd) for your own family travel savings.
We operate out of Vancouver, BC and Carlsbad, Cal.
Sincerely,
Tony Humphrey, FCA
tony@thetoptravelclub.com
skype available
Maralyn D. Hill, President
IFWTWA
Maralyn@ifwtwa.org
Bill to Create U.S. Tourism Board
By Lionel Beehner
The number of foreign visitors to the United States in 2009 was 9 percent below 2000. A new bill that passed the Senate last week, and is expected to be signed into law, aims to reverse that trend.
The Travel Promotion Act would create a national tourism board to develop ad campaigns and raise awareness of United States security and visa procedures. The tourism board would be financed by a $10 fee on foreign visitors who do not need a visa to enter the United States.
The travel industry has long advocated for a tourism board, arguing that the United States is one of the few industrialized nations without one. A January 2010 study by Oxford Economics, a forecasting and research group in Britain, estimated that a tourism bureau would bring in 1.6 million additional foreign visitors yearly, as well as pump about $4 billion into the U.S. economy.
Critics of the bill, including some Republicans and some airline industry representatives, say that the slump in foreign tourism is not a public relations issue, but rather a result of strict immigration rules that subject visitors to unwelcoming, and even humiliating procedures.
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