The Ritz Carlton Gets It, I Got to Meet the Reasons Why in NYC

I could talk hotels all day long, love the great ones. I did get to talk Ritz Carlton over a fabulous lunch today in NYC. My hosts were Julia Gajcak the VP for Marketing and Communications and Allison Sitch Senior Corporate Director, Public Relations. Also providing insight was Jim Wells from Attention!. The few other attendees were blogger related or in an online forum of some kind.

In was fitting since I recently read a CNN.com piece by Christopher Elliott titled Pushy Bloggers to Travel Industry: be nice. It was also on MSNBC. It basically is about how the travel industry is beginning to understand the effects of blog comments in today’s world. Our own GoNOMAD Editor Max Hartshorne gave a lot of great quoted advice in the piece, the link to us was amazing.

I salute Ritz Carlton for keeping up on changes in the travel world, Simon F Cooper and his people get it. That’s what keeps them on top. By the way the lunch at BLT Market "Bistro Laurent Tourondel," was great another great Ritz marketing move.