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  • Five Valuable Strategies to Effectively Promote Your Hotel Fitness Center

  • By Kurt A. Broadhag, President, K Allan Consulting

  • Up until recent hotel fitness centers were seen as an added amenity for guests. In the broad picture these were intangible income generators for the property with little thought given to the allocation of space, design, and budget. Hotel guests would make reservations without considering the quality of the fitness center. Infrequently health conscious guests would be pleasantly surprised to find an in-house fitness center upon check-in. Fast forward to today - more and more hotels are jumping on the "fitness train" committing time and money into the development of their fitness centers - a trend building steam as the realization unfolds that the fitness center is becoming an importance component in the hotel business model.

    What caused the shift in emphasis? There are a whole host of factors all based upon a more health conscious society. This shift is further fueled by the large influx of baby boomers getting older and taking an interest in their health. The bottom line - the fitness industry is booming and businesses must reinvent themselves to take advantage of this upward growing trend. Now, it is almost unheard of for a hotel to not have a fitness center.

    So time and money is invested in ...

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