Venues

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Venues track restaurants, bars, spas, and other food & beverage concepts. They’re a key part of competitive research — understanding what dining and experience concepts exist at hotel properties and in the surrounding market.

Venue Types

Each venue also has a category sub-classification (e.g., fine dining, casual, cocktail bar) and optional cuisine field.

Qualifying Indicators

Erin uses four indicators to flag what makes a venue relevant for research:

Linking Venues to Hotels

Venues can be linked to hotels as outlets — for example, linking a restaurant to the hotel where it’s located. This replaces the older approach of storing outlet names as text on the hotel record.

To link a venue to a hotel, set the hotel connection when creating or editing the venue, or use the “Add Venue” button on a hotel’s detail page.

Using Venues as Comparators

Venues can be added to project comparator sets alongside hotels. In the Add Comparator dialog, switch to the Venues tab to search and add venues.

Venue comparators display with their type badge, cuisine, price range, and neighborhood.

Browsing and Filtering

The venue list supports filtering by:

• Venue type
• State
• Qualifying indicators (new, notable, classic, neighborhood)
• Favorites

Click any venue to view its detail page with full information, images, and linked hotel (if any).

Access

Everyone except Accounting can browse venues. Only managers can create, edit, and delete.