What Does the Near Future Hold for Hotels?
Jan de Roos, the HVS Professor of Finance and Real Estate at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration and executive director of the Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, discusses the effects...
View ArticleCornell Holds Hospitality Summit in Mumbai, India
January 17, 2012 The Taj Mahal Palace Mumbai, India The Cornell International Hospitality Summit in India India will feature the ninth edition of the Dean’s Leadership Series, a CEO Panel of four of...
View ArticleCornell Hotel School Partners Up for eCornell Scholarship Program
IDeaS Revenue Solutions and the Cornell School of Hotel Administration have announced the launch of the IDeaS Cornell Revenue Management Scholarship Program. The scholarship program offers...
View ArticleNew Certificate for Hospitality Pros: Advanced Revenue Management
eCornell’s new 5-course certificate program is perfect for GMs, revenue and finance managers, operations, sales, marketing and other hospitality pros who are responsible for revenue generation and...
View ArticleCocktail Reception Invitation: eCornell’s HR in Hospitality Post-Conference...
Network with members of the eCornell team, as well as faculty from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration and School of Industrial & Labor Relations. Tuesday, February 28 5:30pm –...
View Article“Advanced” is the key word in Hospitality Revenue Management.
This isn’t your mother’s Revenue Management program, that’s for sure. What does eCornell’s new certificate program Advanced Revenue Management: Pricing & Demand Strategies have that other programs...
View ArticleInvitation to eCornell’s Cocktail Reception at the HR in Hospitality...
Network with members of the eCornell team, as well as faculty from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration and School of Industrial & Labor Relations. Tuesday, February 28 5:30pm –...
View ArticleHow Social Media’s Front Line Gets Guests to the Front Desk
Chris Anderson, Cornell associate professor in the School of Hotel Administration, offers fresh data on how travel review web sites and hotel-industry elasticity are forming a tidal wave of change in...
View Article“He scares me to death. That’s why I’ve asked him to be my mentor”
Think of the classic mentor/protege relationship. Your mind may conjure up images of the benevolent, caring tutor and the eager, receptive student in a perfect give and take. A friendly, healthy...
View ArticleActual Human Beings Now Booking Travel
How do you explain a 10% bump in leisure and business travel booked through traditional agencies that are staffed by real people? Two reasons: 1. Emerging from the wreckage of the global recession, the...
View ArticleDoes Pinterest Work for Hospitality?
The jury’s still out on whether Pinterest is the new Facebook. But note that in a mere 9 months, Pinterest went from 50,000 users to 17 million, where it took Facebook 16 months to get there. Whether...
View ArticleThe Best Way to Handle Variable Pricing?
Broadway-style. In hospitality, a huge part of successfully managing revenue lies in striking that perfect balance between price, inventory/availability, demand–and, of course, anticipating buying...
View Article5 Tips on How to Look [And Act] Like a Leader
You have the education, the skills, the experience, the courage and insight to lead. But leadership is about many things, and a big part of what makes a leader is appearance. It might sound...
View ArticleMentorship Redux
Think of the classic mentor/protege relationship. Your mind may conjure up images of the benevolent, caring tutor and the eager, receptive student in a perfect give and take. A friendly, healthy...
View ArticleeCornell Success Stories: Ted Teng, CEO, The Leading Hotels of the World
Ted Teng is CEO of Leading Hotels of the World. eCornell’s online courses remain central to professional development programming at LHW’s Leading Learning Institute, which offers training...
View ArticleSocial Media, OTAs and New Distribution Channels
by Chris Anderson Here’s the summary from a paper I co-wrote with Jay Hubbs, Vice President, Regional Sales, ReviewPro entitled The Ever Evolving Distribution Landscape – A Focus on Emerging Channels:...
View ArticleHow Tech and Social Media Now Drive the Travel/Hotel Industry
by Chris Anderson [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0LfKwf-Twc] I was in NYC last week, along with Hotel Administration Dean Michael Johnson, to present my new research on how travel review web...
View ArticleThe Billboard Effect
by Chris Anderson http://youtu.be/GNs17hjUx54 In this interview with VTV, I discuss the results of a research study called “The Billboard Effect”, conducted in partnership with JHM Hotels and Expedia....
View ArticleThe Pricing Power of User Reviews
A cool article and interview by Patrick Mayock at HotelNewsNow.com on how online reviews and ratings can influence pricing and yield strategies. “Users are communicating with lots of social content,...
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