HOTEL AND HOSPITALITY PR · KANSAS CITY
Hotel PR in Kansas City.
Nine hotels open in this market through 2027. The Park Hotel on the Plaza. River Market Hotel. UMusic in the Scarritt Building. DoubleTree at KCI. AC Hotel Overland Park. They will all announce in the same windows, to the same short list of Kansas City reporters.
Most of them will send a press release. That is not a plan.
What we do for a property.
We have worked with Hotel Kansas City and across the hospitality side of this market for years. Here is the work.
We get the opening story, not the opening mention.
There is a difference between being listed in a round-up of new hotels and being the hotel the round-up is about. The second one is won months earlier.
We build the local credibility a national agency cannot.
Your brand team in New York knows the trade press. They do not know which Kansas City editor just had a baby, who left for a new outlet, or who actually shows up to a preview.
We fill the preview with people who matter here.
Travel writers, food critics, civic leadership, the people whose Instagram moves a weekend. An empty preview has never made a headline.
We make the restaurant and the bar their own story.
Hotel F&B is usually treated as an amenity. Pitched properly it is a second, separate wave of coverage with a different set of reporters.
We keep the property in the conversation between seasons.
Holiday programming, a new chef, a renovation, a partnership with a team or a festival. There is always a reason to call. Most properties never make the call.
What is actually changing downtown.
Occupancy here is about to be fought over, and the map of where a visitor will actually walk has just changed. The streetcar riverfront extension opened in May. Rock Island Bridge turned a 121-year-old rail crossing into a destination on the Kansas side. Barney Allis Plaza is finishing a $118 million rebuild in the middle of the convention district.
Each of those moves foot traffic somewhere new, and each one gives a travel writer a reason to ask where people should stay. The properties that get named in those stories are the ones whose PR was already in the conversation.
ELSEWHERE ON THE SITE
Opening a hotel in Kansas City?
Send us the opening window and the brand standards you are working inside. We will tell you where the local press will and will not follow.
