Advertise Your Hotel
Do you want to build your group travel business?
Tour operators, bank club directors, group leaders and field trip planners all tell us that they have their hands full when looking for lodging for their groups, young and old. New can be risky for their business. Sometimes this even influences whether or not a group will come at all to an area. So whatever your flag, wherever your property is within the upper Midwest region of the United States and Canada, this new service is created to provide tour operators and group travel planners the information they need to best create successful itinerary packages for their upper Midwest travel.
You could call it a “resource library” designed to help planners find properties that are already “group-friendly”. This program is not a reservation service, but a way to bring your hotel into the radar of a planner. And it’s not just North American planners. Consider what a Swedish or Chinese group travel planner is thinking as they look for a trustworthy group-friendly hotel in another country. All of these planners want excellent – and safe – options, with no surprises!
Designed with the generous assistance of numerous tour operators – and based on what they would like to see – this program is a great opportunity for group-friendly properties. It utilizes the high profile and established promotional strength of Itineraries Midwest Magazine plus both itinerariesmidwest.com and grouplodgingmidwest.com websites to conveniently present you as an upper Midwest group-friendly lodging option for their packages and itineraries. Remember, this is not a reservation program. It is designed to encourage relationships you have with planners, and to help you close the sale!
Here’s a summary of what you get in the GLM Program:
- Participation in Group Lodging Midwest Co-op Ads in every issue of Itineraries Midwest Magazine (both print and online) – showing that you are part of this exceptional program, and you are inviting them to consider you for their overnight group lodging accommodations.
- A 35-word directory listing in Itineraries Midwest Magazine.
- One full webpage on www.grouplodgingmidwest.com for your hotel with multiple photos, your logo, group travel information, links to your hotel website, group sales name, direct phone, and email address (hotlinked), plus a Google map showing your property location.
- Updating Services for your hotel webpage at no added charge
- Your hotel’s brochure distributed at the Itineraries Midwest Group Travel Show (no charge).