What's Happening Arround Your Hotel?

Being updated with upcoming events in the city provides many opportunities for the hotel, as well as its guests. Having the up-to-date information about events and offering it to the guests is essential to attract guest’s attention and enrich the experience.

That can be easily done with the help of www.upcoming.org and www.eventful.com. Both are social events calendar websites, while Eventful is considered to be the world’s leading events website.

The websites provide an opportunity to search for different categories of events. In that way it is possible to select “conferences” or “festivals”, which would, for example, happen in the coming 30 days in a certain location. Depending on the clientele of the hotel and their potential preferences, certain types of events and venues can be selected for the RSS feed.

In case of a business hotel in Barcelona, a search of business events in Barcelona can be performed on Eventful and Upcoming, then the search can be narrowed down to “next 30 days” and then RSS feed can be created. That feed can be added to the hotel’s website or to Netvibes and it is going to have up-to-date information on the upcoming business events in Barcelona for the next 30 days.

Alternatively, different events could be added to “My Events” list by selecting an event and then adding it to the “watch list”. An RSS feed can then be created for “My Events”, making it possible to select events from different categories and according to hotel’s vision.

There is also an option to create events on Eventful and Upcoming. For example, national holidays or annual public events can be created, as well as special events organized by a hotel. An RSS feed of those events can be generated and incorporated on the hotel’s website.

Eventful and Upcoming with the option of creating RSS feeds from different categories present a great tool for monitoring events. Taking advantage of those options provides hotels with the opportunity to offer their guests personalized information.