Articles tagged “kimpton”

Hotels

5 Top Hotel Execs Discuss Amenity Trends From Wellness to Wi-Fi

Hotels are personalizing the guest experience through innovative amenity programs, while the free versus paid WiFi debate shifts toward bandwidth strength.

Greg Oates, Skift | 9 years ago

Announcements

How Kimpton Hotels Built Its Brand on the Local Experience

A localized hotel experience is the #1 marketing mantra in the American hospitality industry today, three decades after Bill Kimpton invented the idea.

Greg Oates, Skift | 9 years ago

Hotels

Is this hotel chain helping guests or missing out on big fee surcharges?

Loyalty pays, as Kimpton has shown. But so does customer service that goes beyond the basics.

Jason Clampet, Skift | 10 years ago

Hotels

Surprise, surprise, hotel restaurants have become locavores

A trend that simultaneously appeals to business travelers, leisure travelers, and foreigners is on that chains are happy to adopt; they may think they’re mavericks, but the fact that the Marriott serves local beef shows the trend is as mainstream as they get.

Skift | 10 years ago

Media and PR

Best travel ads this week: Five videos highlight the evolution of travel

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 10 years ago

Hotels

Locally grown foods and furniture are good for hotel reputations and wallets

It’s not often you see a trend that sweeps up hipster and luxury travelers alike, and also is in line with a hotel’s bottom line. Other benefits include making updating hotel design faster and cheaper.

Skift | 10 years ago

Hotels

Marriott and Kimpton hotel groups risk boycotts to oppose gay marriage bans in U.S.

Kimpton and Marriott risk boycotts from conservative groups, despite the fact that the latter has given quite generously to conservative causes and has Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on its board.

Timothy R. Homan, Bloomberg | 10 years ago