Article: Leveraging partnerships to expand in new categories: cooking light's deal with hotel chain helps market the brand to travelers.(IDEA EXCHANGE)(Time Inc.)(Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group L.L.C.)(Brief article)

AS IT WORKS TO EXPAND its travel category, Time Inc.'s Cooking Light has teamed up with Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants as a way to market its brand to "healthy living enthusiasts 'on the road,'" according to marketing director Hallett Ruzic.

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The deal offers Cooking Light readers a discount code for stays at Kimpton properties. Kimpton guests receive wellness packages from Cooking Light featuring "healthy travel tools" from the magazine's sponsors. "Our sponsors are excited about this new, upscale, affluent market Cooking Light will reach," Ruzic says. The partnership also includes a live Cooking Light Supper Club series of events, ...

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