Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2009-04-10 08:11:51 - Graham Ellis
A note from Chris, on checkout duty: "Xxxxx has left - very happy with this stay and previous stays. Leaving for promotion in different company."
We don't like to loose regular guests, nor do we like to have irregular guests choose to stay elsewhere if they're in Melksham again - so we look to keep somewhat in touch with our regulars needs, asking if they'll be back, "see you next time" or "will you be down this way again". But with many of our business guests away from the training side, we are not their overall destination and we accept that circumstances will mean that there are occasions where we have to say "goodbye".
Chris's note didn't come out of the blue. I had spoken with Xxxxx a few days ago and was aware that she was moving on, and doing so in a positive way. Isn't that great when there is so much doom and gloom around at the moment? She told me that the nearest offices that her new company has are Xxxxxxxxx (named American city where Lisa and I changed planes a couple of weeks ago!) so it's improbable in the extreme that we'll see her on business.
But also since I wrote my last entry here, we've taken another honeymoon night booking. And with bookings such as that, we *are* the destination - I'm delighted that we've been chosen, double delighted that we're chosen on recommendation, and triple delighted because for this booking we are truly a destination business.
(See here for further "Destination Business" information - if you run a destination business you take the variable of other parties out of the equation. And see here for it in a Melksham chamber of Commerce context!)