Adding your NSOs, GSOs, and DMOs to your planner toolbox
You can include any of your NSO, GSO, DMO, or CVB contacts in your "Planner toolbox" for future RFPs, either to suggest hotels or to support proposals from hotels you've selected.
Access your planner toolbox by clicking the toolbox icon on the left-hand side of your HopSkip account, then click on the "Contact directory" tab, this is where you can add and manage your GSO, NSO, DMO, or CVB contacts.
You can update contacts or their default settings by clicking the checkbox to automatically include them in new RFPs.
Add a new contact by clicking the 'Add Contacts' button in the upper right-hand corner, then click 'Add New'.
To begin this process, enter the contact's email address and click 'Next'. You'll be directed to another page to add more details about the contact and set them up for future RFPs.
When adding your industry contacts' information, select the appropriate role.
For example:
If your contact falls under a national sales role, like Marriott or Hyatt, choose 'National Sales'.
For a Destination Marketing Organization or City Visitors Bureau contacts, choose 'DMO' or 'CVB'.
If it's a global sales affiliate contact, like an ALHI, Preferred, or DMI, select 'Sales Affiliate' and you would enter the company name, 'ALHI' for example
When initially adding this contact, it's important to note the default settings you can choose (each setting can be changed in an individual RFP):
Include on all new RFPs?
If set to Yes, this contact will automatically be added to each new RFP. You can optionally remove the contact from the RFP before or after sending it.
Suggest hotels for RFPs?
This setting controls whether this contact can forward your RFP to a hotel in their chain, portfolio or geography
Initiate chat messages?
This setting controls whether your contact can reach out to you via HopSkip instant message, or if the contact must wait for you to start a chat.
After adding the contact, click 'Add Contact' to save this new contact to your contact directory in your planner toolbox.
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