Hotel Meeting & Events: Changing World, Creative Ideas and still Ancillary Revenue .... Really?

Oct 09, 2020, 02:56 PM

Today we are joined by two guests from one of our Expert Partners:

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Niki van den Broeck and Peter Brauer join us to discuss what has changed over the last 6 months within the hotel meeting, groups and events space.

We look back on some points made in a previous podcast as to how the meeting space might change: 

Meetings Survival Pack and How Hotel Meetings Might Change Post Crisis
https://revenue-hub.com/meeting-survival-pack-hotel-meetings-change-post-crisis/

Why 2020 Should be the Year of MICE Revenue Management
https://revenue-hub.com/2020-year-mice-revenue-management-podcast/

We question whether meetings, groups and events revenue should still be considered ancillary revenue when it can make up a substantial part of a hotels income 

Niki and Peter give us some examples of what they are seeing in creative ways to attract meeting and event business:

https://www.postillionhotels.com/en-gb
Finally we ask are your hotel sales people showing the ‘hunter’ attitude needed in todays climate.

Here are the chapters:

1:29     Welcome Guests
2:43     Guest Intros
5:20     Current Meeting & Event Situation
17:18   Is Meeting & Event Revenue still Ancillary
23:25   Creative Meeting & Event Examples
30:55   Still Hunting for Meeting & Event Business?
36:10   Wrap Up

You can see the interview on our YouTube channel here:
https://youtu.be/0bc54viuidU

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