Vijay Dandapani
Vijay Dandapani
Since August 1993, Vijay Dandapani, the President and Chief Operating Officer of Apple Core Hotels, has been instrumental in the company's growth and development, including acquisitions, six hotel renovations and the implementation of state-of-the-art computer systems. A hotel industry veteran, Dandapani, is also a member of the Board of Directors for the following associations: Hotel Association of New York City, NYC & Company, NYSHTA (New York State Hospitality & Tourism Association), and the International Hotel Motel & Restaurant Show at Javits.
Homing in on potential guests
The Wall Street Journal reports that "marketing and software companies are increasingly using sophisticated technologies for smartphones and other mobile gadgets to track consumers and...
Video marketing
Hotel video content has been around a few years in an attempt to sate the seemingly ceaseless craving for information by online shoppers before...
Adversity Marketing – Facing up to disasters
The immediate effects of April's volcanic ash are well known with most hotels around the world suffering considerable losses (although Dubai's hostelry had a...
Electric ideas
The Crowne Plaza in Copenhagen came up with a novel idea to generate electricity by installing "electricity producing bicycles in its gym for guests...
Booking rooms via a virtual Jeeves
Ask Jeeves, a search engine launched over a decade ago drew its name from the fictional character, Jeeves, in P.G.Wodehouse's books who was a...
Bingo for Bing’s travel price indicator
Microsoft's Bing search engine announced on its community blog a nifty tool called the Bing Travel Rate Indicator touting it as an "intelligent tool...
Filling rooms with social search
Aardvark is the name of a kind of an African anteater but is better known as being one of the first entries to appear in...
Metrosexual hotels
Ian Schrager may have pioneered the boutique hotel concept but Starwood upped the ante considerably when it recently made a path-breaking announcement by appointing...
Boosting productivity through “happiness”
The Wall Street Journal has a report on a relatively new practice among employers: boosting happiness at work via coaching as away to combat...
Warming up to guests – literally
A report in Britain's Sky.com notes that Holiday Inns has introduced a "Human Bed Warming" service for its hotels in the United Kingdom. It...
Service DNA
Singapore's national newspaper the Straits Times quotes the country's Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong as lamenting that Singaporeans "generally lacked what he called the...
Rating the stars
The Washington Post has a well researched article on a subject of enduring, if mild, controversy in the industry: the uniformity and consistency of...
Hotels within airports – terminal decline?
The US leads the world in most metrics in the hospitality field be it number of hotel rooms, brands, concepts (boutiques), technology and a...
Loyalty marketing: a dynamic process
Customer loyalty in the digital era often seems like an oxymoron given the unprecedentedly high level of control customers wield in a high-supply-low-demand economy....
The online & mobile payment revolution and hotels
The Wall Street Journal reports that American Express has bought into the growing online-payment business by acquiring Internet-transaction company Revolution Money for about $300...
Occupancy revival on the anvil?
The Wall Street Journal reports that the adroitly named Oracle corporation that quarterly profit for the technology giant "jumped 12% and sales exceeded its...