Will SERP Changes Impact Hotel PPC?

  NB: This is an article from FUEL The hotel industry has seen the Google SERP change pretty drastically over the past few years and the latest update was more […]

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Airbnb to Let Neighbors Give Feedback on Hosts

  Airbnb Inc. will soon give people renting out rooms and homes through its website a better way to find out how the strangers showing up at their properties are […]

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Google, travel and intimacy

  Should companies involved in the travel-planning process be concerned about the release last week of Destinations on Google, a mobile format designed to help travelers get from the top […]

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Cornell analyzes TripAdvisor reviews to help hotel managers

  Online reviews of hotels don’t usually make for scintillating reading. But with the power to make or break a hotel’s profitability, they are read closely. So hotel managers may […]

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Airbnb vs the traditional hotelier

  Home-letting platform Airbnb has experienced rapid growth since its inception in 2008, but what do its 80 million room nights mean for the traditional hotelier’s market share? In an […]

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Non-Branded Hotels Outperforming the Competition

  If you had to write a state of the union speech for independent hotels, you would likely follow every U.S. president’s lead and comment that “the state of the […]

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Google tackles OTAs with vacation-booking tool on mobile

  Google is taking the travel industry head-on with the rollout of its newest tool, Destinations on Google, which lets consumers discover and book their next vacation entirely via mobile […]

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Its time for the Moneyball of destination marketing

  Destination marketers are rising up. Or as some of them put it: geeking up. They’re daring to bypass their ad agencies and parse big data to figure how to […]

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The Gloves Are Off: Big Brands Throwing Direct Booking Punches

  NB: This is an article from Tambourine Hotel industry giants have had enough. Like you, they appear to be sick of the big commissions, the declining customer loyalty and the […]

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Why Ranking on Page 1 in Google is Not the Goal of SEO

  NB: This is an article by John McAuliffe, President of Leonardo A lot of conversations I have with hotel marketers about SEO go something like this: John: “What’s the […]

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