Thursday, October 4, 2012

Hospitality Blogs Review


Hotel Managers Group Blog is dedicated to the hotel owners by providing creative solutions on review of operations, marketing, and accounting to determine if the hotel is in good position with respect to competition and decide what strategies to implement in order to increase market share.  The best thing about this blog is that it’s managed by a team of highly skilled and experienced hotel professionals and on a timely basis, they post their advises and strategies according to the most recent trends about hospitality to their readers.  They also teach their readers how to use hotel new systems, how to attract more guests to book the hotel, how to increase the hotel awareness, etc.  I like how they have at least one blog post each day for the readers.  Meaning that they are active.  I also like the design of the blog that its very organized and easy to find where things are.  However, I don’t like that its all plain text with hardly any photos and no videos.  In addition, I don’t see any hyperlinks that link to more information.

 Hospitality Trends is a blog that provide online information on the trends of hospitality industry.  Looking at the homepage, I found it’s a bit too much that things are everywhere and there are lots of ads on the side.  However, I do like how its categorized by different categories for easy access.  The choice of color is too dull and boring and not catchy.  The content of the blog postings are too board that its targeting not just at the hotel industry though it names hospitality trends. I don’t think I will look at this blog for trends on hotels.  Moreover, the posts don’t have any pictures or hyperlinks to link to sources.

 HotelBlogs.com is mainly about hotel and tourism news around the world.  It is important to know what is current in both the hospitality and tourism industry if you are in it; otherwise, you will be left in the dust.  Knowing who are your competitors and how they operate and manage the properties so successfully is vital to all hotels chains.  By keeping up with the trends, you know how you can do better.  Also, the way that different tourists plan their trips and vacations is always changing rapidly and we, as hoteliers and travel planners, need to know what is demanding right now in order to attract and bring in more guests into the hotel.  It’s all about marketing.  Finding people’s behaviors, preferences, needs and wants and how we can make their needs and wants come true.  Therefore, this hotel blogs is a great source to look for news and current events.  





7 comments:

  1. Wow. You got a job offer from this blog. That is awesome!!

    I know you said that there were no hyperlinks in the first blog, do you think that hyperlinks are absolutely necessary in creating a good blog? This post was very well put together, and the use of pictures was nicely done.

    After reviewing your three blogs, I noticed that all three were just white backgrounds with a minimal amount of color. I wonder if more color would benefit each of these blogs. As a reader of blogs, I did not feel that the blogs really caught my attention and that had there been more color the articles would have appealed to me more. What are your thoughts on color in blogs?

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    1. In terms of color in a blog, I think that plain text is fine because its easy to read. However, it should include some pictures to lighten up the page. Having a nice layout and design is important since its the first thing people see when they open up the page and it tells the readers your creativeness.

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  2. In a blog, the design is really important but also the use of pictures and videos are important. Keeping up to date is also important.
    What do you think if a blog is not posting everyday, but rather every other day, do you think there will be a major problem with being active?

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    1. I think no one want to read a blog that is not active. A blog is a chronologically constantly updated with posts. If theres nothing new to read, no one will be coming back.

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  3. I really enjoyed the last blog you reviewed. It was a very well designed business blog. It branched out to many relevant websites and other blogs that I will definitely keep in mind next time I travel. I disagree with Kymber about the necessity of color in a blog. As long as the blog's pictures and links flow well, it will be enough to keep me reading. I like how your blog is easy to read with relevant pictures and it has a soft two toned background.

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  5. Good to know that there are so many hospitality blogs on the internet. It will be very helpful if a person is looking for some information in hospitality industry. The information in HotelBlogs.com may be very useful for my international business research project too! Hospitality industry could be international also, since the tourists could be coming from all over the world.

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