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“The VBrochure Ultra Premium Multimedia Viewer has significantly improved the Holiday Inn Denver Lakewood’s online presence by displaying virtual tours, photos, video and written descriptions in an easily navigable format on thousands of sites. It’s such a cost effective and powerful hotel marketing tool that we are adopting it for additional properties!”
Melissa Bruckler, Hospitality E-Commerce Consultant, Holiday Inn Denver Lakewood
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Holiday Inn Denver Lakewood, one of Granite Hospitality’s properties, has been using VBrochure since August 2009. Since then, their online presence has significantly improved. “The VBrochure Ultra Premium Multimedia Viewer has significantly improved the Holiday Inn Denver Lakewood’s online presence by displaying virtual tours, photos, video and written descriptions in an easily navigable format on thousands of web sites. It’s such a cost effective and powerful hotel marketing tool!” says Melissa Bruckler, Hospitality E-Commerce Consultant for Granite Hospitality and the Holiday Inn Denver Lakewood property.
“We merchandise online in an effort to reach and relate to our guests… to be where they are. We not only want to be their destination of choice, but a tool or resource they can use when travelling to the cities in which our hotels are located,” says Bruckler.
Within one year of the implementation of the VBrochure Merchandising System – which allows for the syndication of the hotels media to channels in the VNetwork – the property has generated nearly 4,000 rich media views* – a strong indication that travel shoppers want richer experiences like the Holiday Inn Denver Lakewood’s.
Further, if you look up the Holiday Inn Denver Lakewood in our Merchandising Health Index, you will see that their visual presence exceeds that of other hotels within a 5 mile radius! With VBrochure, the experiences they provide travel shoppers across the Internet are much richer than before through the use of virtual tours, video tours and professional photos and text in their VPowered Multi-media Viewers.
“Now we are providing our potential guests a true view of who and what we are… of the quality of excellence we strive to achieve daily. We are able to showcase our hotels and add additional details allowing guests to really become comfortable with the hotel even before they arrive,” says Bruckler.
Melissa offers this piece of advice to her peers: “Have high quality photos taken – a must – and a high quality video – it doesn’t need to be expensive to have impact, but must be professionally made and give an overall picture of your hotel. Then, get them distributed – your website, the social sites, associates/vendors and traditional 3rd party travel sites. Make sure they will be seen where your guests are likely to be looking and researching.”
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