AccorHotels plans for digital, growth and greedy OTAs

A raft of acquisitions and digital developments is helping the French chain to become a key player in industry consolidation and a serial entrepreneur has been appointed to help, writes […]

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18 Seriously Useful Tools for Your Hotel Marketing

As an independent hotelier, you have to constantly market your hotel to attract steady business. Unfortunately, if you’re not a part of a large chain and you don’t run a […]

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Strong revenue growth for Asia-Pacific hotels in 2016

A summit of over 200 leading Indonesian hospitality industry professionals has predicted a positive outlook for the regional hotel sector, with 65 percent of attendees forecasting six percent or more […]

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Marriott VP Digital Marketing on Digital and Apps

Andy Kauffman is a digital guru. He is vice president, digital marketing & Marriott.com for Marriott International working as the general manager for Marriott.com. He oversees everything from product strategy, digital acquisition, […]

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Why Google woke up and smelt the travel coffee

Google has never been lacking in confidence – and that’s not just because it has a market cap of $487 billion and last year took in $74.5 billion in revenues. There […]

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Direct Bookings: What Independent Hotels Can Do

The first half of 2016 has seen a sea change in the way hotels deal with direct bookings. Direct bookings are no longer an alternative to third party sites and […]

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Now time for Airline pricing spring clean

Does your pricing strategy have cobwebs? Was it developed at a different time in a different market context? Could it use some ‘spring cleaning’, disposing of practices that don’t make […]

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Bahrain hotel revenues drop 7% in March

Hoteliers in Manama saw total revenues slump by nearly 7% in March despite reducing payroll levels and overheads, according to new data. HotStats figures showed that total revenue per available […]

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Drive Direct Revenue with New Booking Platform

Travel Tripper, the industry’s most innovative provider of hotel reservation and e-commerce solutions, today announced the launch of Travel Tripper Web (TT Web). This new website platform for hotels increases […]

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Hotel distribution is not a one-shot deal

Getting hotel distribution is not a one-shot deal and requires an attack from multiple angles In case you missed the analysis piece last week – Hotels and the dirty battle […]

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