Numbers galore!

James and I met with the E-marketing manager for Starwood Hawaii for a meeting including Jay, the director of sales, and Kelly, the general manager. We basically discussed a promotions strategy for the next couple months to try to increase our average daily rates and occupancy.

For the rest of the day James and I looked over reports and tried to help out Sheraton Kauai (our sister property). SK oversold their hotel and they are trying to relocate some of their guests to our hotel. Its alot of stress on both parts, but at least this is providing some increase in our occupancy. Reports reports reports! Then you have to turn around and explain those reports or as they say give them the "Reader's Digest" version to a variety of people with different levels of interest/backgrounds. Once James has reports put together, he has to turn around and send different versions out to accounting, the general manager, and of course regional (which eventually moves on to corporate). Actually one of my assignments tomorrow is to take a look at all of the revenue management reports and sift through them to make a more feasible packet of reports to present at the RevMax meeting next week. The current reports are a little confusing and Kelly wants James and I to work together to only have the key reports.