Vero Beach, Florida resident, Francis W. Purvey is celebrated as an event industry change maker. BizBash, North America’s number one resource for event industry trends, ideas, and inspiration, has announced its 2019 list of Top 1,000 people in events. This anticipated list of event professionals from across the United States includes industry leaders from all …

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An Australian viewpoint – by Sunlark Associate, Shannon Knapp, I’m not typically interested in Nine Network sensationalist reporting style, but tonight the Australian edition of 60 Minutes had a story on casino hotel operators, focusing specifically on Crown staff that piqued my interest. Perhaps not “must see tv”, but I watched it with interest nonetheless. The story included former Crown …

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As seen on SilverforceHospitality, the author is a Managing Partner – Greg Meadows, whose impressive bio began at The Savoy in London. We all talked about it at our monthly dinners. We used to take turns hosting them, ten of us. An opportunity to gossip, share experiences, talk seriously, talk nonsense, let off steam amongst …

Read moreFrom Trust to Controls – The Diminishing Authority of the Modern Hotel General Manager

  Two of the top Internet searches for destinations according to Google are “things to do” and “festivals.” To the delight of event organizers everywhere, visitors help drive ticket sales. Convention and visitors bureaus and chambers of commerce know calendar of events chock full of activities increase demand for overnight accommodations. According to author and event …

Read more Author and Destination Marketing Expert Reveals Special Events Are Key to Driving Room Nights

St Maarten/St Martin, St Barths, Anguilla September 28, 2017 Post-Hurricanes Irma and Maria  ISLANDS OVERVIEW : The cleanup continues on all islands with the assistance of both French and Dutch armies in St Maarten/St Martin and British on Anguilla. Hundreds of tons of building material arrived yesterday on board of military ships. Power and water supplies …

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The statistics are staggering and very real. One in six children in the United States live in a food insecure household meaning that they don’t know where their next meal will come from. And this is no fault of theirs – and maybe not even of their parents. Bad things can happen to anyone; people …

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I don’t get why people accept hotel Resort Fees as reasonable or inevitable. They are nothing more than incremental revenue for a hotel on services that they should be providing for free anyway. GMs and Controllers love them as they typically show up as “Other Revenue”, are taxable at lower rates and in most cases …

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Are hotel managers really open to disruptive innovation? In my recent experience I am not convinced that operations teams welcome technology advances, even as consumers are expecting them. As an example, guests say they want to communicate by text with hotel. They don’t want automated answers either, just as we don’t want telephone prompts to …

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