The Wedding Cake Story
By Harlan Butler, Past President, Innisfree Hotels Back in Topeka, at the hotel where I was working for Innisfree, we had the best venue for wedding receptions of anyone in town. It was beautiful. The owner of the TV station’s daughter was getting married, and, as...
‘Back in Topeka’, President Mike Nixon
Reflections from Innisfree Hotels' President Mike Nixon It’s universal that young people barely hear advice on aging or dating or financial responsibility. 'In one ear and out the other' perfectly describes this phenomenon. It sounds a lot like “blah, blah, blah”...
Innisfree Hotels Wins IHG Newcomer
PENSACOLA, FLA. – Oct. 5, 2015 – Innisfree Hotels was recognized with a 2015 Newcomer Award from InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) for the Holiday Inn Resort Fort Walton Beach. The Newcomer Award is presented only to the best hotels to enter the IHG family each...
Meet Our Celebrity Chef Dan Dunn
Pensacola Celebrity Chef Dan Dunn is a casual, easy-going guy and a long time, well-loved Pensacola Beach local. When he’s not working, he’s most likely to be found bumming around the beach or enjoying a casual outdoor feast with his family and the large tribe of...
Giving Guests a Voice in our Operations
Innisfree is a hotel company, but we are in the hospitality business. What’s the difference, you ask? A hotel company sells rooms. A hospitality business transforms this simple financial transaction into an experience. Innisfree’s reputation management program is a...
Time Management Tricks For Busy Bees
Innisfree Hotels is proud to employ an in-house digital marketing agency, a team of tireless and creative professionals who work hard and have fun telling the story of our company, our guest experience and our philanthropic efforts in the communities we serve. For...
Beach. Love. Happiness. Guest Engagement Campaign
It was the summer of ’14, and we wanted to get out of our sandbox. So instead of simply selling ourselves as another beachfront hotel, we dug deeper to design our ‘Beach. Love. Happiness.’ campaign guest engagement campaign– a ‘surprise and delight’ effort geared...
From Mullet Bellies to Multi-Million Dollar Properties
Jason Nicholson’s hospitality career began at the age of 15, when he sat in the heat scrubbing the bellies of a few hundred pounds of mullet with a toothbrush for six hours a day at Rusty’s in Perdido Key, Fla. Today, he is Innisfree's Vice President of Operations....
There’s Something Fishy Going On
Fish Art Fundraiser Supports Innisfree-Sponsored Dixon School of the Arts If you walk into the gift shop at the Hilton Pensacola Beach, you might notice something fishy. The colorful fish that hang happily on hooks at our beachfront hotel have a story to tell. They...
Google Updates = Big Impacts for Hotel Marketing
Google recently implemented algorithm changes that have the potential to profoundly impact digital marketing strategies for franchised hotels. Doorway On May 11, 2015, Google released a ‘ranking adjustment’ to deal with ‘doorway’ pages, noting that this update...
