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'Don't Touch My Perks': Companies that Eliminate Them Risk Employee Backlash
Earlier this summer, when employees first learned of a Google plan to upgrade and dramatically raise the price of its day care program, they wept, according to an article in the New York Times.
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Revenue Management: The Hotel Stimulus Package - By Jean Francois Mourier, CEO and Founder of RevPar Guru
Hotels are being pummeled by the economy, and the hospitality industry is suffering in every corner of the globe - what else is new? In the current climate, most hotel experts are expecting RevPar (revenue per available room) to drop by as much as 11%, perhaps even more.
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Hotel Management and Marketing in a Recession - Insights and Suggestions to Thrive, Not Just Survive - By Neil Salerno
Revenues are down, or flat at best, and you're now looking for ways to cut expenses. For some reason, this is where the minds of hoteliers turn from driving profit to basic survival. Having been there, I understand how difficult it is to operate a hotel in times like this. Making those decisions, what to cut, what to keep, is one of the hardest parts of your job.
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Food & Beverage - Eliminate Chronic Waste - By Joe Dunbar
Years back, one of my clients had a policy of brewing coffee fresh every 20 minutes. This simple policy caused an extremely high level of waste in off peak hours. They offered patrons a choice of house brew, hazelnut flavored, and vanilla flavored (regular roast and decaf for all three).
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FEATURED SUPPLIER |
InnPro Solutions Inc.
Specialized consulting and training in revenue management, in-bound sales training, customer service assessment and training, process improvement and implementation, meeting facilitation and much more.
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Area Development Area Development is an economic development magazine that provides information on site selection and facility planning to executive readers involved with company plans for expansions or relocation.
Area Development magazine is considered the leading executive magazine covering corporate site selection and relocation. Editorial coverage provides valuable information pertinent to the factors, key issues, and criteria that affect a successful decision.
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Most viewed headlines this past week at Hotel News Resource. Click on the title to read.
Travel Leaders Meet with President Obama, Discuss Industry's Ability to Strengthen Economy
Gird Your Loins, Hospitality, Here Comes The Perfect Storm! (and, Organized Labor is smackin' their lips!) - By J. Ragsdale Hendrie
How to Sell In a Buyer's Market
Expedia.com Announces 'Free Nights and No Fee Flights' Promotion
Food Safety: Majority of Americans Feel Industry Doesn't Do Enough
Canadian Occupancy, ADR, RevPAR - Week Ending March 7, 2008
VFM Leonardo Expands Visual Content Distribution Network to include Additional 40+Travel Websites Powered by GTA Travel
Hotel Lawyer: Latest legislation affecting hospitality - By Jim Butler, author of www.HotelLawBlog.com
ATTA Adventure Travel Business Survey Reflects Resiliency, Rapid Adaption to Economic News, Traveler Preferences
U.S. airlines pin hopes on summer vacation travel
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Time Tactics of Very Successful People
Real Nuts & Bolts Time Management
Reviewer: Thomas F. Garner from Cobleskill, NY USA
This fine book stands alone as a real nuts & bolts guide to time management. Refreshingly, Griessman does not ask the reader to buy into an integrated or even singular System of managing your time. There are no self tests, no 12 Step program, no gimmicks.
Quite simply, this book is about survival. If your boat were sinking or you were lost in the wilderness, the last thing you would want (or have time to read) would be a lengthy treatise on the theory of bouyancy or how people get lost. Rather, Griessman instructs from the outset that you Learn survival techniques from the survivors.
In this vein, Griessman's approach is decidedly simple: 1)These are successful people; 2) Here are specific tactics that they use to save time and survive; 3) You fill in the blank. This format is woven into 15 short chapters with an accompanying commentary which is almost editorial in nature. This provides just enough cohesion in the book to give it structure, without detracting from its readability.
If you're looking for a lengthy treatise on time management, riddled with charts, self tests and lengthy explanations about why you don't have enough time, then leave this book on the shelf. Time Tactics is really a field manual - the same kind of lean, to the point writing you'd hope to find in a life raft.
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