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U.S. Open boosts New York events volume, rates

New York ranked second among the top 25 markets, with more than 30 percent year-over-year meeting volume growth driven primarily by sports tourism in August, sourced from Knowland’s sales intelligence platform.

US Open boosts NYC events volume, hotel rates

Though Las Vegas remained the top market for year-on-year events growth in August, sports events gave New York a “substantial” lift, per Knowland.

Hotels Need Creativity, Collaboration for Group Events

Hoteliers must look at alternative spaces to maximize group demand, according to Hotel Data Conference panel featuring Knowland SVP Revenue Patricia Shea.

Knowland and Amadeus Present Q2 2024 Industry Performance Data

For the second quarter of 2024, the Index shows overall health of 105.5 percent year-over-year (YOY.) This is the first time the overall Index has exceeded 100 percent, reflecting continued industry health across all reported indices.

Meeting Planners: What to Expect for 2024

Meeting and Event Planners Knowland released our annual Meeting Planner Survey in conjunction with ConferenceDirect. The report revealed key insights and challenges facing meeting planners today. If you are a hotel owner, manager, or sales leader, …

From Struggles to Success: How to Overcome Sales Challenges When Selling Hotel Meeting Space

Selling hotel meeting space can be challenging, especially in today’s competitive business environment. From short-staffing to changing customer expectations, sales professionals face various obstacles when soliciting business for their …

Knowland Announces U.S. Meetings and Events Data for December 2020

Leader in group hospitality analytics sees meeting growth slow as expected due to holidays and COVID-related market changes ARLINGTON, Va. — Jan. 14, 2021—December U.S. monthly meetings and events volume decreased 39 percent over the previous month, …

Learn What Meeting Planners Really Think – Read The 2020 Survey Developed Together with ConferenceDirect

76 percent of meeting planner respondents are now rebooking meetings, but cite that flexible low-risk hotel contracts are extremely important Employees get ideas and inspiration from each other. The inability to meet, collaborate and ideate as a …

Knowland Announces U.S. Meetings and Events Data for November 2020

Leader in group hospitality analytics sees meeting growth continue to rise month over month. ARLINGTON, Va. — Dec. 11, 2020— November U.S. monthly meetings and events volume increased 15 percent over the previous month, according to the latest data …

Knowland: U.S. Meetings and Events Data for October 2020

Leader in meeting intelligence and analytics releases monthly group hospitality data to inform hotels as they look toward 2021 recovery efforts ARLINGTON, Va. — Nov. 18, 2020— October U.S. monthly meetings and events volume showed growth of 53.6 …

Hotel Management: How to Rebuild Sales Teams for Success

As seen in Hotel Management, July 23, 2020 By Kristi White, VP of Product Management at Knowland The very last thing owners and asset managers need to be reminded of is how awful the past few months have been in our industry. We are all acutely aware …

Getting Back to Business: A Step-By-Step Plan for Faster Hotel Recovery

Hoteliers are weeding through over-information to determine how to take their hotels forward. This multi-part series will allow hotels to learn the next steps to getting back to business. What a hotel does next depends on where you are in recovery. …