We’ve all been there, and if you haven’t, count your blessings. And knock wood. You get into a nice hotel late and bone-tired. Either you have no reason to wake up at any set time, or you simply call the desk for a wake-up call. (Or, if you are a master of your smart-phone, you rig the phone as an alarm.) And then you fall into a comfortable bed for a great night’s sleep.
In order to entice more visitors to Las Vegas, several casinos are offering bargains and incentives.
First, before I get a lot of angry comments about this post, I want to say that I believe the folks at AIG and other companies acted unconscionably in planning expensive retreats after accepting taxpayer bailout money. But it’s hard to watch others suffer for their sins.
During my years as part of the management team of a major airline’s customer relations office, I always taught my staff what I called the “brussels sprouts” theory. Here’s what that means — and how Ritz-Carlton hotels can teach the airlines a thing or two about service.