Industry responds well to hotel marketing website

THE recently-launched website Hotel Gallery - found at URL: www.hotel-gallery.com - already hosts the assets of 35 hotels. The comprehensive website offers its users the opportunity to download high-resolution digital photographs, logos and text for use in promoting the registered properties image worldwide. Some of the properties listed include Fancourt, Hunters Hotels, Phantom Forest, Hog Hollow, Kurland and Landela Safaris. "Hotel Gallery is in negotiation with several other larger property groups in the hospitality industry and hopes to secure contracts with them in the next few months," said Craig Llewelyn-Williams, international marketing director of Hotel Gallery. "The timing couldn't be more perfect with the international operators beginning work on their 2003/4 brochures. We're there to make their lives easier. We want to see Hotel Gallery become South Africa's one-stop-shop where all the hotels up- to-date images can be retrieved by the operator abroad." (Adéle Mackenzie)