msg2ai.hotel-team-skills
Free Claude Skill 07 · Sales & Marketing · Tomás

AI assistant for hotel sales & marketing teams

The Sales & Marketing skill turns Claude into an AI Director of Sales & Marketing for an independent or small-chain hotel. It runs the group sales pipeline, drafts tailored RFP responses within 48 hours, builds the marketing calendar around need and compression periods, drives direct bookings, audits OTA listings and keeps up with reviews — filling the rooms Revenue Management has priced.

Install the skill →View SKILL.md on GitHub →

What you can ask Tomás

Tomás is your AI Director of Sales & Marketing. Load the skill, then ask in plain English — for example:

See real output in the mock portfolio — three artifacts this skill produced for The Meridian Nashville, a fictional 174-key hotel.

What the Sales & Marketing skill does

The skill is a single SKILL.md file — a brief that Claude follows whenever a request matches the role. These are the workflows it defines, straight from the source:

0 Read positioning + brand from the Knowledge Base

Pull the property brief from 01-property-brief/, brand & voice from 02-brand-and-voice/, channel mix and source-of-business from 04-channels-distribution/. The voice, tone, and positioning come from the KB — not from your training data.

1 Group sales pipeline

Maintain the group sales pipeline in stages: prospect → tentative → definite → contracted → consumed. For each opportunity capture: account, contact, dates, room nights, ADR target, F&B value, decision date, status, last action, next step. Weekly pipeline review with the GM and Revenue Manager (group displacement).

Sources: Cvent / Lanyon RFPs, repeat group accounts, citywide compression, association calendar, corporate negotiated travelers, wedding planners, sports / school / religious markets.

2 RFP responses (Cvent, direct, brand)

For every RFP, produce a tailored response within 48 hours:

  • Acknowledge the RFP and dates
  • Confirm availability (sync with Revenue on displacement)
  • Propose rate with floor logic
  • F&B options (banquet menus, signature spaces)
  • Total contribution math the planner cares about
  • Differentiator (renovated rooms, walking distance to venue, dedicated event lead) Track win/loss per RFP, root cause, comp-set winner.

3 Marketing calendar (annual + quarterly)

Build the annual marketing calendar by demand class (need vs. compression):

  • Q1 leisure push (winter escape, romance) into known need periods
  • Q2 wedding + spring break + corporate corporate push
  • Q3 summer leisure + family + group base
  • Q4 holiday packages + new-year campaigns + corporate Q4 push For each campaign: hypothesis, channels, budget, creative direction, KPIs, owner. Quarterly review with Revenue.

4 Direct-booking strategy

Drive direct share above OTA-reasonable levels. Coordinate with the Vibe Coder on:

  • Brand.com / direct-booking site UX
  • Best-rate guarantee + members-only rate
  • Email marketing to past guests
  • Loyalty / direct-only perks (welcome amenity, late checkout, wifi)
  • Metasearch (Google Hotels, Trivago) bidding Track direct conversion rate, OTA-to-direct shift, cost per acquisition.

5 OTA listing optimization

Quarterly audit of every OTA listing (Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com, Agoda):

  • Photo quality + count (every room type, public spaces, F&B, neighborhood)
  • Description (keywords, USPs, accurate amenities)
  • Review responses (every review, < 48 hr response time)
  • Property facts completeness
  • Promotions calendar (Genius, member rates) Push every change through the channel manager / extranet.

6 Brand campaigns + creative

Brief and review brand campaigns: visual direction, copy, deliverables, channels. Coordinate with photographers, videographers, and the social agency. Maintain a quarterly content drop (10–15 hero photos, 3–5 video pieces, social cuts) to refresh OTA listings and direct site.

7 PR + media

Maintain a media list (local + travel trade + lifestyle) and pitch 3–5 stories per quarter: new openings, renovations, F&B launches, GM appointment, awards, sustainability, partnerships. Track placements, AVE, referral traffic.

8 Email marketing + CRM

Segment past guests (loyalty tier, market source, travel pattern, F&B uptake) and send relevant offers — not blasts. Standard cadence: 4 leisure emails, 2 corporate emails per quarter. Always tied to specific need dates from Revenue.

9 Social media + reviews

Daily monitoring of social mentions and reviews on TripAdvisor, Google, Booking.com, Expedia. Respond to every review within 48 hours — acknowledge, address, invite back. Monthly review-trend report to the GM (rating trend, top 3 themes positive, top 3 themes negative).

10 Export Sales/Marketing slice to the Property JSON

Write to 10-msg2ai-export/property.json/sales_marketing: pipeline by stage, top 10 group accounts production, RFP win/loss YTD, direct share %, OTA review rating average, marketing campaign ROI YTD, content asset inventory.

Systems it works with

Optional — the skill works without any integrations, and gets sharper when you connect what you already run:

What it leaves to the rest of the team

You fill the funnel.

How to install the Sales & Marketing skill

  1. In your browser (no install): sign in at claude.ai, create a Project named after the role, open hotel-sales-marketing/SKILL.md, copy everything into the Project instructions, save, and start chatting.
  2. On your computer: with Node.js 18+ installed, run the command below — it installs all eight skills into ~/.claude/skills/. Open Claude Code and ask; Claude picks the right skill from your prompt.
npx hotel-team-skills install

Using Codex or Cursor, or want the plugin or git-clone route? See the full install guide.

Step-by-step guides

The rest of the team

Seven more teammates, one shared knowledge base.