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• Oakland gets a taste for gourmet
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 |
San Francisco Launches World's First Hotel-Based Greeter Services
San Francisco, CA (January 11, 2005) - After a three month trial period at only one hotel in the city, high guest demand and satisfaction prompted Joie de Vivre Hospitality, (www.jdvhospitality.com), to roll out Golden Gate Greeter, a free welcome visitor program for guests, to all 17 of it's San Francisco hotels. The service helps guests explore and experience a San Francisco neighborhood with a friendly volunteer Golden Gate Greeter.
Joie de Vivre Hospitality is the first hotel company to offer this level of destination involvement, creating a vacation experience uniquely memorable because of the people you meet. The Golden Gate Greeter service is designed with visitor expectations in mind and to anticipate individual tastes and preferences. While a traditional tour starts and follows a specific route, a Greeter Visit is more like hanging out with a friend; a more personalized service based upon convenient times for the visitor, their personal interests, and needs.
Guests are matched one-on-one with a volunteer based upon their cultural interests (from architecture, to food, to history, music, parks and nature), neighborhood curiosity, language and availability. Joie de Vivre Hospitality hotel guests are given the opportunity to explore a San Francisco neighborhood with a proud local, and along the way, talk about what it's like to live in the city and how to use public transportation.
In a culturally diverse city like San Francisco, there's no such thing as a typical Golden Gate Greeter volunteer. A shared sentiment is a sense of connection with San Francisco. In some way, San Francisco has been good to them, and now it's their turn to give something back. Being a Greeter is one way for people to show off their city to an audience of eager listeners - curious visitors.
"San Franciscans are friendly and proud of their city and visitors enjoy meeting locals," said Chip Conley, founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality. "Creating opportunities for the two to interact seemed like the right thing for Joie de Vivre Hospitality and San Francisco's image as a welcoming city."
To find out more about this complimentary service, visit www.goldengategreeter.com or call 415.248.5927. To spend time with a Golden Gate Greeter, guests must be booked at one of the 17 Joie de Vivre properties in San Francisco. For reservation inquiries, log onto www.jdvhospitality.com or call 800.738.7477 within the U.S or 510.628.4407 from outside the U.S.
About Joie de Vivre Hospitality
Based in San Francisco, Joie de Vivre Hospitality (www.jdvhotels.com) is a creative collection of lifestyle businesses. As the Bay area's most prolific hotel operator, the Joie de Vivre portfolio encompasses 37 hospitality businesses throughout California, including 30 boutique hotels with more than 2,800 guestrooms. The company also owns and operates San Francisco's largest day spa, the Kabuki Springs & Spa. Each property celebrates the San Francisco Bay Area through a unique visual style, uncompromising design principles, one-of-a-kind amenities and personalized service. "Our goal", notes Joie de Vivre founder and CEO Chip Conley, "is to create landmark destinations full of soul and personality."
