Webinar for Hotel Marketers on April 24th Features Speakers from Tapped Networks and Jupiter Hotel Portland to Explore How to Engage Travel Shoppers on Mobile Devices

The exponential growth of mobile usage has opened the door to many opportunities for hotel marketers, but has introduced new challenges as well. As travelers increasingly rely on mobile devices to during every stage of travel, hotel marketers need to step up their game to ensure they're reaching and engaging them along the way.

Join the webinar, How Mobile Devices are Changing the Way we Market to Today's Travel Shopper to learn how travelers are using smartphones and tablets during their travel journeys and how hotel marketers can meet their demands for seamless and optimized experiences.

Webinar Details

Hosted by: Darlene Rondeau, Vice President, Online Merchandising Best Practices, VFM Leonardo Date: April 24th, 2013 Time: 11 am Eastern Standard Time Duration: 45 min + 15 min Q&A Register Now!

Attendees will learn:

  • Where and how travelers are using smartphones and tablets
  • How consumers are using multiple screens sequentially and concurrently
  • Differences in how consumers use mobile apps and mobile browser websites
  • Elements required for smartphone and tablet optimized hotel websites
  • How hotels are successfully optimizing their stories for smartphones and tablets

Meet the Speakers

Jed Schneiderman, President, Tapped Networks

Jed Schneiderman is president of Tapped Networks, Canada's top end-to-end mobile marketing solution which provides full service creative - building apps, websites and mobile landing pages. Schneiderman also works as an Advisor at Ryerson University's Digital Media Zone (DMZ) connecting digital start-up companies with larger organizations to help them accelerate their growth and ultimately achieve success. Schneiderman has worked at Microsoft as the Senior Director of Marketing and CTV Television as the Director of Strategy and Business Development, Digital Media.

Al Munguia, General Manager, Jupiter Hotel Portland

In his 7 years with the Jupiter Hotel, Al Munguia has established himself as a key player in Oregon's tourism industry, specifically through his involvement with the Hispanic and LGBT communities of the greater Portland area. Appointed by Governor Kitzhaber, Munguia was unanimously confirmed by the Oregon Senate in July 2011 as a Commissioner to the Oregon Tourism Board. In addition to his role at the Jupiter, Munguia brings over 25 years of international experience in the hospitality industry and seeks to provide a unique voice to the Tourism Commission, known as Travel Oregon.

About Leonardo

Leonardo Worldwide Corporation is a technology company serving the global hospitality industry. Leonardo provides e-marketers at hotel brands, management companies, hotel properties and travel websites with technology solutions that help them better reach, engage, convert and satisfy travel shoppers.

Leonardo's core products include Vizlly, a Digital Marketing Solution that makes it easy for hotel to drive quality traffic to their hotel website, convert more visitors, and gain incremental revenue through third-party channels; VScape® Digital Asset Management System, an enterprise-level digital asset management and distribution tool that helps hotel chains better source, manage, organize, store, and publish media assets to direct and indirect online travel channels; and MediaConnect, advanced connectivity for travel websites to access the industry's definitive source of normalized hotel certified visual content.

For more information about Leonardo, visit leonardo.com.