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10.16.2009 Outlet: San Francisco Chronicle When Jeremy Umland was considering opening a second location of his popular San Francisco restaurant, Ozumo, he considered Napa and Walnut Creek. Instead, he decided to follow the money. "Investors and developers, all with a lot more cash to risk • 'Duck' Into Citizen Hotels Grange Restaurant For Some 'Fowl Play' 10.14.2009 Outlet: HotelChatter Where: 926 J St. [map], Sacramento, CA, United States, 95814 October 15, 2009 at 9:19 AM | by EricRosen | 0 Comments When it opened last December, we told you all about the geeky glory of the Citizen Hotel in Sacramento. Now we want to tell • Hotels get creative to cope with hard times 10.12.2009 Outlet: Miami Herald - Online, The Faced with the toughest financial crunch in decades, hotels are moving beyond typical discounts and offering unusual promotions to lure clients and create buzz. The 27-room Crane's BeachHouse in Delray Beach, for example, offers a ''The Bed-in for • I'M ASITTING IN MY OWN PRIVATE CABANA HERE AT THE HOTEL MAYA SWAGO. 10.12.2009 Outlet: KTLA Morning News - KTLA-TV HI, ALLIE. Reporter: GOOD MORNING, YOU GUYS. I'M ASITTING IN MY OWN PRIVATE CABANA HERE AT THE HOTEL MAYA SWAGO. WE'RE GOING TO WIND UP DINE LARESTAURANT WEEK. COMING UP WE'LL SHOW YOU ALL THE APPETIZERS, ENTTRAYS, ALL COMING UP LIVE FROM LONG BEA • In San Francisco, hotel rooms for less than $100 10.09.2009 Outlet: Austin American-Statesman - Online TRAVEL By Helen Anders SAN FRANCISCO The Good Hotel is a good hotel. Its rooms are small and spare but contemporary-cool, and they have everything you need: a bathroom, a safe, TV, free wireless, an iPod dock and clever art. Some rooms are even ai • San Francisco Japantown hotel delivers anime immersion 10.02.2009 Outlet: Los Angeles Times - Online Check into mainstream manga: A Bay Area Best Western rethemed by a boutique hotel chain buzzes with vibrant comic sensibility. Click to Enlarge Three unique restaurants in San Francisco Hotel Guide Restaurant Guide Attraction Guide • HOTELS 10.01.2009 Outlet: Los Angeles Times Infobox Infographic Hoping to keep its 119 rooms filled, Hotel Erwin on Venice Beach is offering an unusual promotion for its countercultural clientele: an Ink and Stay package that includes $100 toward a tattoo and a bottle of tequila to numb • Treating Your Employees Like Honored Guests = Outstanding Customer Service = Business Success 09.30.2009 Outlet: Fast Company - Online FC Expert Blog This blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that expert's views alone. Chip Conley, founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre, the largest group of boutique hotels in California, believes in treating hi • Gourmet Stimulus Plan 09.30.2009 Outlet: North Bay Bohemian More than two dozen restaurants are offering $25 prix fixe menus as part of the inaugural Santa Cruz Restaurant Week, Oct. 1-8. Full menus are posted at www.santacruzrestaurantweek.com. Our advice: make reservations. Aptos Sanderling's Oc |
Joie De Vivre Hotels Celebrates the Spirit of the Season With a Promotion Designed to Deliver Joy to Your World
Acts of Kindness Are Rewarded With ‘Share the Joy’ Tokens And An Opportunity To Pay It Forward
San Francisco, November 15, 2007 - Beginning December 1, Joie de Vivre Hotels (JdV), California’s largest boutique hotelier, will commence a two-month, grass-roots distribution of 4,000 ‘Share the Joy’ tokens to good citizens in the community as well as individuals who truly practice random acts of kindness.
Honoring Goodwill
Each token, printed with a unique number, can be redeemed for surprises such as spa treatments, hotel rooms, restaurant discounts and entries into a grand prize drawing for a 2008 California getaway. In true spirit of the concept, recipients are then encouraged to ‘pay it forward’ to one additional person as a reward for a good deed done, spreading joy 8,000 times over.
Putting a modern twist on this classic tradition of passing along good tidings, JdV has created a special section on www.jdvhotels.com to allow for unique registration, guaranteed prize redemption and pay-it-forward inspiration. Once the promotional code printed on the token is entered into the website, a prize is awarded and everyone who enters a code is a winner.
“Considering the pace of today’s digital age, sometimes it’s the slowest form of communication that causes the biggest ripple,” said JdV CEO Chip Conley. “The impact of personal interaction and recognition with a token of appreciation is most authentic… and in a time when avatars, email and voicemail rule, it’s that authenticity that sparks the true holiday spirit.”
About Joie de Vivre Hospitality
Based in San Francisco, Joie de Vivre Hospitality (www.jdvhotels.com) is a creative collection of lifestyle businesses. As California's largest independent boutique hotelier, Joie de Vivre encompasses other hospitality businesses such as restaurants and spas. Celebrating 20 years of creating dreams, Joie de Vivre Hospitality is expanding its California presence in Sacramento, Oakland, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Sunnyvale, Huntington Beach and beyond.
