Groups

How CVBs Can Drive Bookings Amid Convention Center Renovations

Navigating convention center renovations, while a significant challenge, is a testament to the resilience of CVBs and convention centers. The potential rewards are considerable, and by embracing transparency and effectively communicating upgrade …

Best Practices for Ski Resorts During Shoulder Season

Ski resorts are likely familiar with the ebb and flow of business throughout the year. The bustling peak season fills your rooms and restaurants, but crowds disperse during shoulder season. However, that doesn’t mean that all business has to …

5 Essential Tips When Selling to Meeting Planners

Do you find yourself having the same stale conversations when selling to meeting planners? Do you struggle to secure hotel group sales and leave conversations with planners feeling defeated or confused? If so, consider a new approach when selling to …

Mastering Hotel Group Sales: Strategies to Win the Game

Meeting your hotel’s sales goals is about so much more than individual sales quotas and collecting bonuses. Whether you are a hotel sales manager or operator, booking well-suited groups requires both inbound RFP responses and proactive selling. …

The Rise of the New Meeting Planner

It’s a new world. From business to our personal lives, it seems everything has been upended. But with great upheaval comes great change, which means evolving strategies to capture direct group business. With this change comes new target …

3 Ways to Rethink Your Hotel Comp Set to Discover New Business

[Updated] In 2023, many hotels are seeing higher occupancy rates and a normalizing market. Whether your hotel’s occupancy is sufficient or struggling, rethinking your comp set can unlock opportunities to book more and better business. Here’s …

Where We’ve Been and Where We Might Be Going with STR

Highlights from the Bring It On Webcast: August 18, 2021 For the better part of four decades, STR has shaped the industry and how we make decisions. It is the data standard for the hospitality industry and Carter Wilson, Senior Vice President of …

Technology as a Tool to Streamline Your Sales Process

Highlights from the Bring It On Webcast: July 22, 2021 With sales teams still ramping up, it’s important your teams be as efficient as possible. Bob Graham, CEO and Founder of Event Temple, a leading provider of modern hotel and venue event …

The Future of Meetings

Jeff Joins the Cloud5 Clique Webcast on July 1, 2021 On July 1, Knowland’s CEO Jeff Bzdawka joined host Armand Rabinowitz, VP of Product Development at Cloud5 Communications, and fellow panelist Page Petry, a strategic advisor with UgoVirtual to …

Knowland Introduces GroupAdvantage 2021 to Enable and Empower Hotel Sales Teams into Recovery

Press Release: Knowland announces new hotel sales solution for these new times Bringing together actionable meeting intelligence with sales and revenue management expertise to re-engage sales teams ARLINGTON, Va. — Mar. 17, 2021 — Group business …

Top Management Company Turns to Knowland to Accelerate Group Sales

Press Release: Knowland announces the completion of a project with award-winning management company. Knowland works outside the box to deliver a multifaceted prospecting program ARLINGTON, Va. — Jan. 25, 2021 — Group business is key to hotels …

Hope gives the hospitality industry a shot in the arm

The hospitality industry got a boost of optimism this week with the reports by Pfizer and BioNTech of a potential COVID-19 vaccine with a 90% success rate in patient trials. Although we all breathed a collective sigh of relief, results are …