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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