Revinate

Sanjana Chappalli

VP - Brand Marketing and Communications

Sanjana Chappalli is focused on shaping the Revinate brand to be known as the hospitality industry’s direct booking platform leader. She leads Revinate’s commitment to building brand equity with its customers, employees, and other stakeholders by setting clear marketing strategies and implementing tactical executions. Sanjana has led marketing teams in ad agencies and companies, working with global brands like Spotify, IBM, Lenovo, and Porsche in nearly 25 years of work experience across Asia, Europe and North America. Outside of work, she is a serious linguaphile: She speaks five languages fluently and is currently learning Spanish, her sixth language. Besides her love for languages, Sanjana is a frequent diver also always planning diving and snorkeling trips.

Invest in your brand and make people feel special and valued even before they have booked with you.

If you could give one piece of advice to hoteliers looking to drive more direct bookings, what would it be?

Regardless of whether you are part of a group or an independent hotel, building a brand will pay rich dividends.

What's the most creative way you've seen a hotel use guest messaging or email marketing?

A guest, impressed by the guest messaging concierge, walked up to a hotel front desk to ask the concierge out on a date. He had no idea that he was texting with a messaging product and had assumed it was a human!

If you were a hotel amenity, what would you be and why?

I’d be the gym/fitness centre. People are intentional when they walk into these and they always walk out feeling great for having taken the time to invest in themselves.

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Review Volume

Every year, Revinate publishes a Hotel Reputation Benchmark Report to provide the industry with actionable and comparative insights from hotels around the world. We analyzed over 147,000 hotels in 200+ countries from Revinate Guest Feedback customers so we can provide a unique review on a unique year. Below is a snapshot of the Section 2, Review Volume You can download the full 2020 Reputation Report for free here. It’s no surprise that with a global [...]

CRM + Surveys a Perfect Marriage

When I began my journey at Revinate nine years ago, I spent the majority of my time meeting with Operations teams to discuss our surveys and reputation management solutions. When Revinate released its CRM product three years ago, I found myself spending more time with the Marketing departments. Today, as hoteliers recognize the benefits of a CRM that integrates directly with their post-stay survey program, I have meetings that involve both the Operations and Marketing [...]