Hraba Hospitality Consulting

The rest that is cut off (hey I am a hotel guy, not a HTML guy) says “($42/month), would you?”  You can take the survey yourself right here: TripAdvisor Survey for Owners.

I will let the pic speak for itself.  I know it’s just a survey, but I assume some (more…)

Once again, Hotels Mag & Mr. Hartesvelt have come up with an interesting piece… this time in regards to “Random Acts of Marketing” and hotels PR people being a bit beleaguered in these times, and acting out accordingly.  I, once again, had too long a blog response and note that the comments section isn’t always the best place for banter… or at least I have trouble posting there at times.  In preparation of that, I linked the article above…. and put my own thoughts here just in case.

The best marketers are skeptics or operators that turned into marketers… because marketing has been a land of long lunches, little data, & arcane, questionable demonstrable results…. ALWAYS.  When times are good, the greased cogs and gears tick forward inevitably… often (more…)

Yes this is about sporks.  We will get there.

This article had this comment:

“As a linux and mac user at home and a very reluctant MS user at work (saved by a large smattering of open source progs here, thankyouverymuch), I can say without a doubt that the advert for Bing alone is enough to put me off. Even if it wasn’t owned by MS… “the decision engine”? Now MS is telling us that they have been keeping us locked in their OS for decades, but now officially, they want us to willingly hand over our ability to make decisions to them. Sure! Why Not? I hope google stays on top of MS on this one. And that Chrome OS winds up kicking Windows 7 in the tookis. That’s right. The good (more…)

Mr. Jeffrey Talajic from OpenPlaces.org just published a fantastic post that crowdsources opinions about top 2.0 travel related sites.  In my response, as is known to happen, I rambled on about some things outside of his needs… like more insider hospitality related sites and opinions on the state of some search and 2.0 offerings.  I figure that I can share that here to keep the conversation going… cheers all!  Jeffrey’s “best travel 2.0 sites” blog post is *HERE*

Some of my favorite’s of travel 2.0 =
You seriously can’t ignore Trip Advisor.  I thought they would take a hit about admitting fake reviews, but it basically made them look proactive in buttressing the validity of the site.  They are in a precarious position (more…)