National Historic Landmark Hotel to Launch Cutting-Edge Website

March 9, 2010 - PRLog -- The Thayer Hotel is taking a bold step into the future by launching a new website that takes advantage of the newest procedures for optimal Web traffic and an easy to navigate guest experience.

Designed by TIG Global, the website has been optimized to increase customer traffic and ease of accessing reservation and conference information.  The website makes it obvious that corporate leadership training and customized corporate meetings are the cornerstone of The Thayer Hotel’s core offerings for meeting planners and senior executives.

“Our new website makes it crystal clear to meeting planners that The Thayer Hotel at West Point is a no-nonsense venue for serious leadership development and productive meetings that focus on building a better company,’’ said Rick Minicozzi, Owner and Managing Partner of the Thayer Hotel at West Point.  “We are not Las Vegas.  This is not a place where employees skip out on formal training to hit the slot machines and go shopping, Minicozzi explained.  “This is a serious environment where companies like 7-Eleven, Mercedes Benz North America, Jet Blue, and countless defense contractors choose to motivate and inspire their teams with very serious training designed to push an organization to the next level…Building their Leaders the West Point Way.”  

The new website has links explaining the option for customized corporate training provided by former West Point instructors in state-of-the-art new facilities that include 6500 lumen projection systems, 100 inch HD screens, full-theatre-surround-sound and simultaneous video-conferencing and wireless-microphones.

The website and the Leadership Conference Center are part of an aggressive turn-around of this legendary hotel that Generals Douglas MacArthur and Omar Bradley loved and regularly patronized.  The Thayer was built in 1926, and the new Website pays esthetic homage to the past with traditional West Point colors: Black, Gray, and Gold, representing the three primary components of gunpowder (charcoal, saltpeter (potassium nitrate) and sulfur).

Visit the new Thayer Hotel website at http://www.thethayerhotel.com

The Thayer Hotel, one hour from New York City, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of the only full-service hotels sitting on a bluff above the Hudson River (between the George Washington Bridge and Albany, New York).  Originally constructed to accommodate U.S. Military Academy personnel and their guests, the Thayer Hotel was the successor to the original West Point Hotel where General MacArthur’s mother actually lived for all four years that young Doug was a West Point cadet.  The Hotel is named for Colonel Sylvanus Thayer, Superintendent of the Academy from 1817 to 1833, and the man who instilled iron discipline and tough rules on The Corps of Cadets.  Thayer is considered to be the Father of West Point.

“Our new website allows all of our potential guests to see the possibilities of a Thayer Hotel experience,” Minicozzi exclaims.  “It is useful for easy room booking, finding out about the exciting activities available to the public on West Point grounds, and lining up everything from a leadership training conference to a romantic weekend getaway.”  

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The Thayer Hotel, one hour from New York City, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of the only full-service hotels sitting on a bluff above the Hudson River (between the George Washington Bridge and Albany, New York). Originally constructed to accommodate U.S. Military Academy personnel and their guests, the Thayer Hotel was the successor to the original West Point Hotel where General MacArthur’s mother actually lived for all four years that young Doug was a West Point cadet. The Hotel is named for Colonel Sylvanus Thayer, Superintendent of the Academy from 1817 to 1833, and the man who instilled iron discipline and tough rules on The Corps of Cadets. Thayer is considered to be the Father of West Point.