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The future of digital marketing: Change it if you can! | By Sanjay Chib

Program Manager Global BBA and academic faculty at Les Roches Global Hospitality Education
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Synopsis

The digital landscape is changing… and it is changing the hotel business itself. As Les Roches’ Sanjay Chib explains, among other big changes ahead is the fact that hotel businesses will incur higher and higher marketing costs as they attempt to capitalize on the digital behavioral profiles of their customers. This could mean, he says, that whole marketing departments would be phased out, morphing into integrated digital teams as organizations undergo digital transformation. A realistic scenario?

The digital landscape is changing… and it is changing the hotel business itself. As Les Roches’ Sanjay Chib explains, among other big changes ahead is the fact that hotel businesses will incur higher and higher marketing costs as they attempt to capitalize on the digital behavioral profiles of their customers. This could mean, he says, that whole marketing departments would be phased out, morphing into integrated digital teams as organizations undergo digital transformation. A realistic scenario?