Hello everyone and welcome to Hospitality Digital Marketing the podcast, I am your host Loren gray and this is episode #137, we are airing Friday, January 6th, 2017 where every week we spend around 20 minutes sharing the most interesting tools, news, and techniques being used in digital marketing for the hospitality industry. We also do a quick recap of our weekly Live Video show “This Week in Hospitality Digital Marketing” which also airs every Friday at 10:30 am Central US Time. SO let's get started;

Co-Hosts
Tim Peter
Robert Cole
Holly Zoba

Show Notes

Carnival Corp.’s new ‘smart ships’ know your name, what you want and where you want it

www.miamiherald.com/news/business/t…l#storylink=cpy

The Smart Hotelier’s 2017 Top Ten Digital Technology & Marketing Resolutions

blog.hebsdigital.com/the-smart-hote…g-resolutions/

Here's What Agency Execs Are Looking for During CES 2017

AI, VR and IoT will be front and center

www.adweek.com/news/technology/h…g-ces-2017-175373

Expedia Finally Joins TripAdvisor’s Instant Booking Platform

marketrealist.com/2016/12/expedia-…ooking-platform/

Uber Is Closing In On Volkswagen

www.statista.com/chart/7424/uber-…n-on-volkswagen/

2017 Predictions: Emerging Trends in Hospitality & Technology

blog.snapshot.travel/2017-predictio…ity-technology

Pushing the Limits of Advertising With Paid Social, Mobile and Video

www.adweek.com/socialtimes/max-k…bile-video/648923

1) Waldorf-Astoria closing www.businessinsider.com/the-waldorf-a…losing-2017-1

2) FTC doesn't like resort fees

www.ftc.gov/reports/economic-an…s-hotel-resort-fees

3) US Hotel industry closes the year with a 'meh'

We would also like to announce and introduce our newest content piece called, “Monday’s Marketing Minute”. Inspired by all of the questions we get on the this podcast and on the live show that we either cannot get to or are repeats of topics or inspired from our conversations. We have found that so many industry professionals like yourself have questions that from time to time they don’t either have the resources available to get an answer or don’t trust the source of the possible answer. Now my co-hosts and I as we answer these questions are not trying to dole out free consulting, sometimes for brevity the best we can offer is a direction or a suggested authoritative resource to continue to answer your question with. It’s meant to be help and brief. So I hope you check out the first installment from this past Monday at www.hospitalitydigitalmarketing.com/minute or bit.ly/hdmminute

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