As Heidi Richards states there are 21 tips to hosting a successful event. No matter what the event is there are certain components that when properly executed will keep people talking about the event long after it is over. Even the simplest of events require some planning and preparation. Some of the tips include: One If you are planning to host an event with more than 20 people its best to hire an assistants to help you out with the minor details, Second you can craft custom-made invitation to invite guests to your event. Follow up with the guest who registered and provide details, such as location, time and dress code, Third encourage your guests to bring plenty of business cards to exchange with other guests, Fourth reflect on inviting your customers, suppliers or prospects, when creating your invitation list, Fifth create targeted emails to these groups to let them know what you are offering, and to Sixth design a postcard Invitation to send via email or a free online invitations such as Yahoo Invites. Heidi provides knowledge and expertise into a making this list of constructing a successful and unforgettable event.

Proximity mobile marketing is a way for retailers such as hotels and restaurants to reach consumers after they check in via a mobile device. Hoteliers use this wireless Bluetooth capability to interact with guests and offer promotions directly to their mobile phone. These messages are automatically delivered within a 300ft radius of the property. With Proximity marketing, hoteliers can now measure the response to the advertisements whether the consumers accept or decline the promotion, ad, video, deal etc and then be able to tailor to their needs and offer what they enjoy the most in real time. Proximity marketing is a new opportunity for hoteliers and brings in an increase of sales to the business.

Safety and security is crucial when it comes to the tourism industry. Traveling in the Caribbean has increased from 1980 to 2004, from 6.9 million in sales to 21.8 million. I am sure now that it's 2012 this amount has tripled. Tourism is worldwide and a very competitive industry. The consumer has to spend a good amount of money just to be able to afford traveling by cruise, or airplane to a good hotel (Possibly a Travel Package) just to be able to stay in the Caribbean some more so than others. So at this point in time the consumer is also sensitive to the tourism product since it is perceived as subjective and experimental. Tourism, therefore; becomes highly aware to these perceptions of any possible danger in traveling to the Caribbean and security in your stay there. Since 9/11/01 this became highly evident that the safety of your consumers is extremely important into providing excellent service in the traveling industry.

This Article, written by Jim Butler and Catherin Holmes; clearly explains that there has been an explosion of Asian investment, mostly Chinese towards United States Hotels. It's important that before you choose to do business with these investors to first understand what their motivations are and what exactly attracted them to U.S. hotel investments. Such as, qualifying for the EB-5 visa for immigrant investment, which helps grant the foreign investor with direct foreign investment in the U.S. and permanent U.S. residence when sufficient jobs are created. Its been proven and shown that all these Asian investors have a preference for U.S. real estate and hotel investments and with the EB-5 visa will help create enough jobs to satisfy the EB-5 requirements. Citizenship and Immigration services have doubled in the first half-year of 2011. Investing in U.S. hotels is also becoming an improving trend of profit and its fundamental. It brings in an explosion of Asian tourists; it is bring in lots of wealth for these Asian investors, its also expanding an economic growth in China.

Accounting has a crucial role in the hospitality industry in money management, which is essential for any business to operate efficiently. It's the core of the business. No hotel, restaurant or any business whatsoever can get started without a good accounting system. So as the article mentions the success of the business depends upon an adequate return in its investments. All branches of accounting are used in the hospitality industry such as cost accounting and financial accounting. With a well running accounting system you will know: how much cash is available to pay bills, what is the total amount on payroll last pay period, what is the ratio of various departments and sales and what amount of food inventory is on hand at the beginning of the month, all of this is necessary information to the success of your business.

Accounting software programs are essential to the hospitality industry because it helps organize and keep track of the hotels operations and its profits. It's important to select the right accounting software that will help tie in the needs and concerns of your hotel. The significant factors to look upon in choosing the best program for your business are annual revenue, budget, location, multiple sites, national or international location, and in-house verses outsourced operations. Accounting software incorporates multiple roles of a hotel's operations such as data mining and running financial reports. Hotels can choose to purchase accounting software devoted exclusively to one purpose or can invest in enterprise software. The hospitality Industry counts on the different tools, as well as their accounting software, to increase their usefulness and creating them to become more competitive in their central business.

This writer Jeff Wuorio elucidates the many reasons as to why the point of sale system is so significant and important to any business. The article explains that it might be best to just step away from these old cash registers and step up to POS; such as, the Microsoft Dynamic Retail Management System. It is a computer software and hardware network that helps record sales as they are occurring, that way you can keep track of your inventory and pay more attention to your customers. The seven reasons are one your loss of inventory doesn't go undetected, You can keep track of which items that have been marked down, Promotions are easily tracked, it can automate host of functions when the boss is not present, your prices are consistent from one location to the next, you can get ma many tools from this single package such as payroll time clocks and a customer data preference data base, and lastly the best advantage to the POS system is the freedom, because it can now allow your employees to devote more of their time for better customer service.

The advantages offered by SaaS systems are very similar to that of which property managers have to solve. It controls property's operations such as processing reservations, check-ins and check-outs. Saas stands for Software as a Service which drives the attention of new technology for property management which includes moving tenant services online, offering web site creation and integration, eliminating the need for extensive software training and maintenance, enhancing communication between the owners and managers and it helps improve record keeping and security.

The hospitality industry is recognizing how imperative it is to run your hotel in a way where it will not only benefit you and your business but for the environment as well. Many hotels are making an effort to making an effort to become certified by means of having a going green business. In addition to certification, businesses in the hospitality industry are contributing to this go green effort by seeking specific goals and priorities. Hotels for example are focusing on how to save energy and water conservation, solid waste management, land use and indoor air quality. Changing basic hotel equipment such as toilets, solar heating, washing machines/dryers, refrigerators to "green products" can create a big difference in hotel energy costs and help save the environment as well. When a hotel owner applies for certification they are carefully inspected to verify compliance on how well the hotel manages their business efficiently by saving energy, water and disposing wastes properly for example. Even something so small as using the right cleaning supplies can have a positive impact on the environment. Not only does going green lower hotel costs but they also receive tax rebates, zoning permits and other incentives to persuade hotels to go green.

This Article based on an Apple iPhone App for Swiss hotel Students is about how some 80 international students from IMI University Centre in Luzern collected data to create the world's first crowd-sourced student guide. The iPhone app is connected with Luzern Tourism, which contains its own tourism guide of the city. The app itself also collects many insider tips for the students who currently live in Switzerland. This Iphone App is free and is categorized in 7 different ways one is "Top Info" which is essential for all international students, "Top Rumors", "Why Luzern?" which explains the ten top reasons for why Luzern is the best place to study, "Do's and Don't's" explaining the things that are important to know about Swiss culture, "Education", "Food", and "Student Gems" which are special tips and selections of all students who participate at version 1.0.

In this Article: "The Best Restaurant Marketing In the World" resiliently describes the marketing world and the amounts of money restaurants spend obsessively to bring in more customers. Instead of focusing on all the new technologies for new ways to advertise and spending thousands of dollars there are other things to consider such as bringing in more customers over the quality of the food, excellence in the service, cleanliness of the place, and having an agreeable unique dining experience. If all these requirements are not met that's when marketing comes in to place. There are many ways possible to improve your business such as changing or simplifying the menus, training the staff properly, making sure the restaurant is spotless, creating a nice ambiance and lastly making sure you have total commitment to all of these basic necessities. These requirements are essential when it comes to exceeding your customer expectations and important for your business in order to succeed. . With all of these categories fulfilled you will bring in a happier, lively and contented crowd; therefore, bringing in more regulars.

Facts show that when your product is more expensive than competition it limits sales and as the article shows it aided ipad to have higher sale rates Intels atom processor and Microsoft's Windows 7 Starter Edition operating system found a way to tender a distinguished product that could justify lower expenses to help create further market share. If Microsoft and Intel learned from their occurrence with net book, the prospect of lower costs could let them compete based on price. Microsoft still has the possibility of succeeding along side Windows 8 tablets and that is by leaving Intel out, and instead run on ARM based hardware which is less expensive.

Overall some ways that Microsoft can win against Ipad besides prices is functionality. If Windows 8 desktop or intel tablet improved by ensure ample app offerings, watched quality control, and figuring out how users with a full version of Microsoft Office are able to work together with users packing ARM-powered tablets and their less-capable Microsoft's productivity tools.