Neel Patel January 31, 2022
10 Best Brand Boosting Giveaways For Hospitality Customers In 2021!
A hospitality business’s long-term success depends upon attracting customers by providing quality services, optimizing your revenue, and establishing trust and recognition among customers. This needs you to be abreast of the latest marketing trend and challenges in the hospitality industry. The hospitality marketing trend of 2020 was chiefly oriented towards COVID 19. This changed for 2021.
Hospitality Marketing
It does not market any physical promotional products. Rather, it involves marketing several inter-related service products such as tourism and travel, accommodation, food, and drink. The hospitality marketing strategy aims at generating and maintaining positive experiences and relationships. Most importantly, they create an intangible asset, “goodwill,” for your business.
From the book “Three Men in a Boat,” you might have learned how Jerome wrote. K. Jerome used to forget to pack his tooth-brush before going out for a travel. This comical event is still experienced by many. While deciding upon the giveaway products, it will pay you a lot if you remember this usual forgetfulness.
For retaining the volume of your revenue, you need to know the following ten best brands for promotional giveaways.
1: Tote Bags or Drawstring Bags
Both the bags serve the same purpose of carrying sundry materials. The tote bags have two large parallel handles and have no provision to close the top. The drawstring bag can be carried on the back. You can close the top by drawing a string provided at the top of the bag. Both are best suited as promotional products because you get enough space to print your logos and brand messages. After their stay in your hotels, your guests may like to bring some personalized items from outside. Hence, both bags can be the best welcome packs.
2: Sunglasses
Sunglasses are more a fashion than a necessity. No doubt, your guests will appreciate give away sunglasses if they visit your place in the scorching sun. Sunglasses become a need during other seasons when your guests visit cruises, resorts, and theme parks. Of course, people like to use their sunglasses always, but if they get a stylish pair of the good brand with nice logos, they will be pleased to use them.
3: Custom Power Bank
Your guests might have come from other countries where they may not be having all the facilities you have. Think of a situation when your guests do not get access to electricity for recharging their phones. Before they start blaming the hotel management, they will feel greatly obliged and satisfied if they get a custom power bank as a promotional giveaway.
4: Shirts
People carry fewer shirts than required to make their travel pack lighter, particularly if they are on a business trip. When they visit water parks, water-themed rides, or theme parks, they always feel the need for extra shirts for changing. Your promotional shirts will serve as a great relief for them. While T-shirts are suitable for the same occasions, they could be more customized and cost-effective. And of course, the style, color, and size of the T-shirts play great roles in promoting your brand.
5: Towels
Turkish towels are heavy to carry, but are ‘must’ to carry”. If your guest is having repeat visits or is aware that they will get a towel as promotional items from you, they are assured of travel with lighter packs. While in the hotel, they will find the towel useful at the sandy beach, themed water rides, or spa. Some guests may even like to carry it home as a sign of a memoir of their foreign travels.
6: Phone Charger
Mobile phones are indispensable to be carried while traveling. But, there is every possibility for the mobile phone charger to miss a place in the packing bag. This happens mainly because of the “forgetfulness” about which a .mention has been made at the beginning of this blog. Your guest’s only option is to borrow from another guest of the neighboring room or your staff. Therefore, a phone charger is a great branded customer giveaway.
7: Custom Flash Drives
While traveling out, your guests are inclined to use flash drives for transferring or backing up photos. While offering flash drives as promotional products for hotels, please pay particular attention to see that it has extra storage while taking pictures. You can give away standard USB drives for ease of carrying. Your guests can use the flash drives to hold essential files and take them with them while returning.
8: Headphones or Earbuds
These two items are great accessories for spending leisure time listening to music. The headphones are more conspicuous and bulging on the head. The earbuds are small in size and fit the inside of the ears. Both the items are good travel companions, but Ear beads are cheaper. Both are use-n-use items. People will like to retain them and thus promote your brand through word of mouth (WOM).
9: Mini Stylus Pen
While on tour, using the tablet with the slightest carelessness may make the screen unclean with fingerprints. If your promotional product takes care of your guests’ inconvenience, they definitely will appreciate your great concern for them. Yes, you can do it by offering a mini stylus pen as a promotional product. It is a 3.5mm audio jack plug with a keyring design. It keeps your audio connection dust-free. It also facilitates attaching the stylus to your device when it is not in use.
10: Stylish First-aid kit
It is a great promotional product to show your concern for the health and wellness of your guests. The first-aid materials come in a durable printed polyester bag. It is zipped at the top to hold the materials securely. The contents include a mini bandage, a 3\4″ bandage, two antiseptic tablets, two antiseptic tablets, one ibuprofen, and one antacid. The kit comes in the size of 6″ W X 4.5″ H and eight colo9rs.
The basic theme behind hospitality is to exhibit your love, care, and concern for your customers. When it comes to business, it is the “goodwill” that matters. Therefore, your hospitality promotional products need to be customized to the specific needs of guests.
